Taylor Swift breaks down in tears over Southport attack and terror threat in new Eras Tour documentary

Taylor Swift tearfully opened up about the horrific Southport attack in her new Eras Tour documentary, and the terror threat that almost led to a “massacre” at one of her concerts.

Three schoolgirls were murdered by 18-year-old Axel Rudakubana at the Taylor Swift-themed class in Southport, Merseyside, last year.

In the documentary, which was released on Disney+ on Friday morning, Taylor revealed that she met the families of the victims ahead of returning to Wembley stadium last summer.

Speaking through tears from a hotel in London, Taylor said: “I am going to meet some of these families tonight and put on a pop concert, you know.

“It’s going to be fine as I am not going to be doing this. I am going to be smiling so any of this gets out of the way before you go on stage.”

With her voice breaking, Taylor said: “We are in London at my hotel and basically it is a weird feeling going into these last five shows in Europe because it sort of feels like, we’ve done 128 shows so far but this is the first one where I feel like, I am skating on thin ice or something.”

“We have had a series of very violent and scary things happen to the tour like we dodged a massacre situation,” referring to a failed terror plot at one of her Eras Tour shows in Vienna, Austria.

“I have been all over the place. There was this horrible attack in Liverpool at a Taylor Swift dance party and it was little kids that…”

Struggling to compose herself, Taylor whispered: “I have a hard time explaining it.”

The pop singer said when performing after such a tragedy: “You lock it off. Three and a half hours they don’t have to worry about you. It’s like you are a pilot flying the plane.

“If you were like ‘oh there is turbulence up ahead I don’t know if we are going to land in Dallas, I am going to try hard but I don’t know if we are going to figure out’, everyone on the plane is going to freak out.

“You just have to have a calm cool collected tone of ‘we will be landing some turbulence ahead but nothing we haven’t dealt with before so keep your seatbelts fastened and welcome to the eras tour’.”

In another scene, Taylor appeared tense backstage at Wembley listening to a self help audio book to calm her down.

Taylor said: “I have been performing for twenty years from a mental standpoint being afraid something is going to happen to fans at any moment. This is a new challenge. I want to keep all the nerves I have away from the crowd.

“As when you are the ring leader of the show they can sense any form of shift energetically in you and you have to really focus on that and factor that in. You’re at the Eras Tour. Nothing is wrong.”

In another clip, Taylor’s mother comes in to check on her daughter.

Taylor told her mum: “I am trying to calm down. My hands are shaking. I am having a very physical reaction. It’s just weird.

“I just have to get this show over with. I am twitchy and fidgety. Just get the show over with tonight, get back on the horse.”

Ed Sheeran then walked in ahead of his surprise appearance at the next show – with Taylor’s mum telling him he’s “just what the doctor ordered”.

The pair then discussed the terror threat in Vienna, and Taylor revealed that filming for her docuseries was due to start in the city before the foiled plot.

Taylor said: “I just need to get through this show. Remember the joy in it because I am a little bit… just like… I get two months after this which I need.

“You’ve seen my schedule, I am just going to go where no one can find me. I don’t want to be tracked like an animal.

“I have felt very hunted lately. 100% people have forgot I am a human being in all of this.”

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