Taylor Swift says she felt ‘tremendous guilt’ after Vienna shows cancelled over terror threat

Taylor Swift performs at Wembley Stadium in London on 21 June. The singer said her silence following the cancellation of her Vienna shows was a form of ‘showing restraint, and waiting to express yourself at a time when it’s right to’. Photograph: Scott A Garfitt/Invision/AP

Taylor Swift has spoken for the first time about the three Vienna shows on her blockbuster Eras tour that were cancelled earlier this month after a foiled terror attack, saying she felt “a new sense of fear” and a “tremendous amount of guilt”.

The planned terror attack was uncovered by Austrian authorities who eventually arrested three teenaged suspects – aged 17, 18 and 19 – for allegedly planning an Islamist attack in the Vienna region, with Swift’s shows being the “focus” of the plot.