The celebrity pop star revealed that she has a “fear of violence” after attacks at concerts in Manchester, England and Las Vegas, Nevada, writing that she was “completely terrified” to go on her stadium tour.
Swift wrote an essay for Elle magazine on 30 lessons she has learned ahead of her 30th birthday, saying that her fear of terror attacks on large concert venues led to her decision to carry QuikClot army-grade bandage dressing “which is for gunshot or stab wounds.”
Swift pointed to the Manchester Arena bombing in 2017 which killed 23 people at an Ariana Grande concert and the 2017 mass shooting at a Las Vegas country festival which left 59 people dead.
“I was completely terrified to go on tour this time because I didn’t know how we were going to keep 3 million fans safe over seven months,” Swift wrote in her essay.
