Taylor Swift reveals her mom is battling a brain tumor, cancer

Andrea Swift was diagnosed with cancer in 2015; her superstar daughter said in 2019 that it had returned for a second time.

 

 

Taylor Swift (left) has revealed that her mom, Andrea Swift (right) was diagnosed with a brain tumor while undergoing treatment for cancer.

Taylor Swift (left) has revealed that her mom, Andrea Swift (right) was diagnosed with a brain tumor while undergoing treatment for cancer.

Taylor Swift is opening up about the latest struggles of her mother’s health journey.

In an interview with Variety Tuesday, the singer revealed, “while she was going through [cancer] treatment, they found a brain tumor.”

She continued: “The symptoms of what a person goes through when they have a brain tumor is nothing like what we’ve ever been through with her cancer before. So it’s just been a really hard time for us as a family.”

Swift said the discovery of the tumor happened while her mother was going through chemotherapy after her cancer had returned for a second time.

The news was especially hard for Swift, who is close with her mom.

“Everyone loves their mom; everyone’s got an important mom,” she said. “But for me, she’s really the guiding force. Almost every decision I make, I talk to her about it first.”

Andrea was diagnosed with cancer in 2015 and her superstar daughter said in 2019 that it had returned.

Swift pulled from personal experience with her mother for her song “Soon You’ll Get Better.” The “Lover” track, a collaboration with the Dixie Chicks, is a simply-sung ballad that features Swift willing a loved one to recover from an illness.

Swift also mentions her father in the interview, in relation to her decision to break her silence on politics in 2018 to back a Democrat in the Tennessee Senate race.

“My dad is terrified of threats against my safety and my life, and he has to see how many stalkers we deal with on a daily basis, and know that this is his kid,” she said.

She added while pushing back tears, that she wishes she spoke out against President Donald Trump sooner.

“I can’t change that. … I need to be on the right side of history,” she said. “This was a situation where, from a humanity perspective, and from what my moral compass was telling me I needed to do, I knew I was right, and I really didn’t care about repercussions.”

She added that seeing the repercussions the Dixie Chicks’ faced after Natalie Maines spoke against then-President George W. Bush is part of what kept her quiet.

“I saw how one comment ended such a powerful reign, and it terrified me,” Swift said. “These days, with social media, people can be so mad about something one day and then forget what they were mad about a couple weeks later. That’s fake outrage. But what happened to the Dixie Chicks was real outrage. I registered it — that you’re always one comment away from being done being able to make music.”

 

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