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Taylor Swift says she felt ‘tremendous guilt’ after Vienna shows cancelled over terror threat

Singer shares ‘rollercoaster of emotions’ at end of European leg of Eras tour, saying she is grateful ‘we were grieving concerts and not lives’

Taylor Swift has spoken for the first time about the three Vienna shows on her blockbuster Eras tour that were cancelled earlier this month after a foiled terror attack, saying she felt “a new sense of fear” and a “tremendous amount of guilt”. The 19-year-old suspect intended “either today or tomorrow to kill himself and a large crowd of people”, said the head of state protection and intelligence at the Austrian interior ministry, Omar Haijawi-Pirchner. In an Instagram post on Wednesday night celebrating the end of the tour’s European leg, which concluded with five London shows this past week, Swift shared her “rollercoaster of emotions”.

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