Taylor Swift rolled out the red carpet for a special guest to attend one of her Eras Tour concerts in London. The 34-year-old pop star, who headlined five concerts at Wembley earlier this month, offered a VIP experience to Maya Thompson , whose late son’s battle with cancer inspired Swift’s 2012 single “Ronan.” “Last week, I was in London with [ Charisma Carpenter ] for something she was working on.
The next thing I knew, we were in the Royal Suite at Wembley Stadium to watch the masterpiece that is the Eras Tour ,” Thompson wrote via X on Saturday, August 24. “ We were treated like royalty (literally). I am still trying to process what happened, the words said, and how I spent the evening dancing next to [ Florence Welch .
]” Thompson added, “When I met @taylorswift13 for the first time thirteen years ago, she was 22-years-old. She was a 22-year-old baby with the emotional intelligence of someone wise beyond her years. She reached out to me, a mom who fought so hard through her son’s cancer diagnosis and then his death.
She reached out because the love story between a mother and a child impacted her. I fell in love with a 22-year-old girl because of her bold, bleeding heart and genuine words — not because she was one of the biggest stars on the planet, but because she was just Taylor. Since then, it has been an endless stream of love that never in my wildest dreams would I have imagined.
” Swift initially learned of Ronan’s story via the “Rockstar R.