Pop superstar Taylor Swift can be seen crying and being comforted by her mother in a documentary after meeting the families of the Southport attack.
Speaking in the documentary series about her Eras Tour on Disney+, which launched on Friday, the 35-year-old is revealed to have met with the survivors and families of the victims before each of a run of five shows at Wembley Stadium.
The knife attack saw Axel Rudakubana kill three young girls and injure 10 people attending a Swift-themed dance class in the Merseyside seaside town in July last year.
Before meeting the families, Swift can be seen describing it as a “horrible attack” and adds while crying: “I’m going to meet some of these families today, and do a pop concert, you know.
“It’s going to be fine, because when I meet them, I’m not going to do this, I swear to God, I’m not going to do this.
“I’m going to be smiling, so any of this gets out of the way before you ever go on stage, you lock it off three-and-a-half hours, they don’t have to worry about you.
“It’s like you’re like a pilot flying the plane, and if you were like, ‘oh, there’s turbulence at the head, I don’t know if we’re actually going to land in Dallas’.
“Like, I’m going to try hard, but I don’t know if I can actually, like, figure out how to land through this turbulence, like everyone on the plane is going to freak out.”
After the meetings, Swift is shown crying to her mother Andrea, who tells her: “I know you helped them, I know it doesn’t seem like it, but I know you helped them.”
In a voiceover, Swift adds: “From a mental standpoint, I just do live in a reality that’s very unreal a lot of the time.
“But it’s my job to kind of be able to handle all these feelings and then perk up immediately to perform. That’s just the way it’s got to be.”
During the End Of An Era documentary, Swift also speaks about a failed terror plot at one of her Eras Tour shows in Vienna, Austria.
Earlier in the episode, she says: “We just had this, we’ve had a series of very violent, scary things happen to the tour.
“Like we dodged, like a massacre situation, and so I’ve just been kind of all over the place, like there was this horrible attack in Liverpool at a Taylor Swift-themed dance party, and it was little kids that… (Swift becomes emotional and is unable to continue speaking)”
The docuseries was first announced on US news show Good Morning America, which is where Swift announced her Eras Tour in November 2022.
Swift’s tour smashed records and she made history as the first solo artist to perform at London’s Wembley Stadium eight times on a single tour.
More recently, the 14-time Grammy-winner broke a string of UK chart records following the release of The Life Of A Showgirl, which debuted at number one in October.
The record is Swift’s third album to top the chart in 2025, following Lover (Live From Paris) in February and The Tortured Poets Department, when it returned to number one in April.
It is also the first studio album Swift has released since she announced her engagement to NFL star Travis Kelce in August and said in May that she had regained control over her back catalogue.
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