In a post made on Tumblr today, Taylor Swift shared some serious and sad news to her fans: Her mom, Andrea, has cancer. She titled the post, “Just so you know…”
Part of the letter reads:
I’m writing to you with an update I wish I wasn’t giving you, but it’s important and I’m used to sharing important events in my life with you. Usually when things happen to me, I process them and then write music about how I feel, and you hear it much later. This is something my family and I thought you should know about now.
Taylor said she wanted to share the news not only so that people didn’t question her mother’s whereabouts during her next tour, but more importantly, to encourage everyone’s parents to go to the doctor. Her Christmas wish this year was just that: to have her mother get checked for a few health concerns both she and her brother had.
Taylor has always had a close relationship with her mom, saying there were times when Andrea was her only friend. In 2009, she told Katie Couric, “I had that group of friends when I was about 12 and then I lost that group of friends. They all decided they didn’t want to hang out with me anymore. I would go sit at the lunch table and they’d move their trays to another table, which is not fun to go through. So, at that point, all I had was my mom.” T. Swift even released a song for her mom called “The Best Day” that she wrote and recorded secretly. She revealed the song on Christmas Eve in 2011 along with timed home videos causing her mom to cry.
Our thoughts and prayers are with Taylor and her family during this difficult time.
Taylor Swift's Mom Diagnosed With Cancer
