Taylor Swift reveals her mom has been diagnosed with a brain tumor amid her second battle with breas
- Taylor Swift discussed her mom's ongoing health struggles in a new interview with Variety.
- Swift revealed that doctors discovered a brain tumor while her mom, Andrea Swift, was undergoing chemotherapy treatments for breast cancer.
- The 30-year-old singer said she chose not to schedule a world tour this year because of the diagnosis: "I mean, we don't know what is going to happen," she said. "It just was the decision to make at the time."
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Taylor Swift's mother, Andrea Swift, has been diagnosed with a brain tumor amid her second battle with breast cancer.
The 30-year-old singer discussed her mom's ongoing health struggles in a new interview with Variety. Swift's mother was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2015, and Swift revealed that it had returned in a personal essay for Elle in March 2019.
"She was going through chemo, and that's a hard enough thing for a person to go through," Swift told Variety. "While she was going through treatment, they found a brain tumor."
"And 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," she continued. "So it's just been a really hard time for us as a family."
Swift previously opened up about the fearful experience on "Soon You'll Get Better," the 12th track from her newest album, "Lover."
"Everyone loves their mom; everyone's got an important mom," she told Variety. "But for me, she's really the guiding force. Almost every decision I make, I talk to her about it first. So obviously it was a really big deal to ever speak about her illness."
Swift also confirmed that her mom's illness is the primary reason why she hasn't scheduled a world tour in support of "Lover."
Swift, whose 2018 "Reputation" tour currently holds the record for the highest grossing tour of all time in the US, has only announced four performances in the US this summer. She is also scheduled to headline some festivals in Europe.
"I feel like I haven't done festivals, really, since early in my career — they're fun and bring people together in a really cool way," she told Variety. "But I also wanted to be able to work as much as I can handle right now, with everything that's going on at home. And I wanted to figure out a way that I could do both those things."
"I mean, we don't know what is going to happen," she continued. "We don't know what treatment we're going to choose. It just was the decision to make at the time, for right now, for what's going on."
Read her full interview with Variety here.
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