Taylor Swift has shared for the first time how she felt about her three Vienna shows being cancelled due to a foiled terror attack , saying they “filled me with a new sense of fear”. Swift was scheduled to hold three shows in Vienna from 8 to 10 August at the Ernst Happel Stadium as part of her record-breaking Eras tour. The concerts were all cancelled after Austrian authorities uncovered and arrested three suspects , aged 17, 18, and 19.
According to reports, the suspects were planning “to kill as many people as possible” at the shows, which expected 65,000 people to attend inside the venue and a further 30,000 outside. In an Instagram post on Wednesday, celebrating the tour’s European leg which wrapped on Tuesday with her shows in London’s Wembley Stadium , Swift wrote about the “rollercoaster of emotions” she felt. “Having our Vienna shows cancelled was devastating.
The reason for the cancellations filled me with a new sense of fear, and a tremendous amount of guilt because so many people had planned on coming to those shows,” the 34-year-old singer wrote. “But I was also so grateful to the authorities because thanks to them, we were grieving concerts and not lives. I was heartened by the love and unity I saw in the fans who banded together.
I decided that all of my energy had to go toward helping to protect the nearly half a million people I had coming to see the shows in London. “My team and I worked hand in hand with stadium staff and British aut.