Taylor Swift Breaks Silence on Vienna Terror Plot as She Says She Feared Statement Might 'Provoke' Danger

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00:00Taylor Swift is speaking out for the first time after a terror plot prompted the cancellation

00:05of three of her ERA's tour dates, and explaining why she initially chose to stay silent.

00:12In a lengthy Instagram post shared following the conclusion of her European leg of the

00:16tour, Swift said that playing her final few dates in London was a rollercoaster of emotions

00:22after three shows in Vienna were cancelled amid a foiled terror plot.

00:27Having our Vienna shows cancelled was devastating.

00:31The reason for the cancellations filled me with a new sense of fear and a tremendous

00:36amount of guilt because so many people had planned on coming to those shows, she wrote

00:41in a post on Wednesday, August 21st.

00:45But I was also so grateful to the authorities because thanks to them, we were grieving concerts

00:51and not lives.