Taylor Swift has responded to the terrorist attack that caused the cancellation of her Eras Tours shows in Vienna. Mega-pop star addressed the threat of violence in her first comments since the recent scare earlier this month on August 21. She defended her prolonged silence over the shocking situation that was revealed.
She additionally made sense of her lengthy quietness with respect to the agitating circumstance that was uncovered.
“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,” she wrote.
“But I was also so grateful to the authorities because thanks to them, we were grieving concerts and not lives.”
Three high school suspects were secured for supposedly plotting an ISIS-style assault at one of Swift’s Austrian shows, which included driving a bomb-loaded vehicle into the crowd to incur greatest losses.
Swift referenced that she decided to stay quiet about the obstructed assault to try not to bring on additional misery.
“Let me be very clear: I am not going to speak about something publicly if I think doing so might provoke those who would want to harm the fans who come to my shows,” the singer said.
“In cases like this one, ‘silence’ is actually showing restraint, and waiting to express yourself at a time when it’s right to.”
“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,” Swift also wrote.
