Taylor Swift breaks down in tears in 'Eras’ doc over two violent tragedies
Taylor Swift truly loves her fans, so when two different tragedies struck during the Eras Tour, she worried for them more than herself.
The music mega star gets emotional in the first episode of the Disney+ series “The End of an Era” as she reflects on a foiled terror plot at her Vienna concert and the "horrible" deadly stabbings of three of her young fans in Southport, UK, last year.
Taylor says in the documentary about Vienna, "It's just kind of a weird feeling going into these last five shows in Europe. We've done, like 128 shows so far, but this is the first one where I feel like I'm skating on thin ice or something. We've had a series of very violent, scary things happen to the tour – like, we dodged a massacre situation, so I've just been kind of all over the place."
She also became emotional recalling the three little girls who lost their lives in a violent attack during a Taylor Swift-themed dance party in Southport, saying, “it was little kids that ... I have a hard time explaining it."
The “Fate of Ophelia” singer choked up as she revealed that she would be meeting the families of Southport victims Alice Da Silva Aguiar, nine, Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, and Bebe King, six, prior to one of her Eras Tour shows.
"I'm gonna, like, meet some of these families tonight and put on a pop concert, you know?” she said through tears. “It's gonna be fine because I'm not gonna do this [crying]. I swear to God, I'm not gonna do this. I'm gonna be smiley.”
She continued, explaining the need to compartmentalize her emotions to perform and keep fans happy and at ease.
"So any of this gets out of the way before you ever go on stage. You lock it off. [For] three and a half hours, they don't have to worry about you,” she said.
She added, "You're like a pilot flying the plane, and if you were like, 'Oh, there's turbulence up ahead. I don't know if we're actually gonna land in Dallas. I'm gonna try hard, but I don't know if I can actually figure out how to land through this turbulence.' Everyone on the plane is going to freak out. You just have to have a calm, cool, collected tone of like, 'We will be landing in Dallas at 6:05pm. Got a little turbulence up ahead, but it's nothing we haven't seen before. Just keep your seatbelts fastened, and welcome to The Eras Tour!"
After meeting the families, Taylor was in tears in her stage-ready ensemble but comforted by her mom, Andrea Swift.
"I know you helped them. I know it doesn't seem like it, but I know you helped them,” she reassured her daughter.
The first two episodes of the docuseries, “The End of an Era,” are available now on Disney+, as well as the concert film, “The Eras Tour | The Final Show.”
