Taylor Swift breaks down in tears as she opens up about UK stabbings that left 3 fans dead

Taylor Swift has tearfully opened up about the horrific stabbing in Southport, UK, in which three young fans were killed.

In the July 2024 attack, Axel Rudakubana, aged 17 at the time, entered a dance studio in Southport which was hosting a Taylor Swift-themed dance workshop.

Once inside, Rudakubana began viciously lashing out with a knife at the 26 children who were attending the event.

Bebe King, six, Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, and Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, were killed in the attack, and 10 others were injured.

Rudakubana was handed a life sentence for the killings with a minimum of 52 years in prison before he is eligible for release on licence - a very high sentence in the UK.

Since the tragedy, Swift has spoken out in a new documentary released by Disney+, titled The End of an Era, tearfully saying how she was going to meet the families of the girls who were killed.

Taylor Swift spoke about the horrific tragedy (XNY/Star Max/GC Images)

Getting emotional at a hotel in London, the singer said: “I am going to meet some of these families tonight and put on a pop concert, you know.

“I’m going to meet some of these families tonight.

“It’s going to be fine as I am not going to be doing this. I am going to be smiling so any of this gets out of the way before you go on stage.”

She added: “We are in London at my hotel and basically it is a weird feeling going into these last five shows in Europe because it sort of feels like, we’ve done 128 shows so far but this is the first one where I feel like, I am skating on thin ice or something.

“We have had a series of very violent and scary things happen to the tour like we dodged a massacre situation. I have been all over the place.

Swift opened up about how she was able to continue performing (Kevin Winter/TAS24/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management)

“There was this horrible attack in Liverpool at a Taylor Swift dance party and it was little kids that.”

Explaining how she could perform after such a tragedy, Swift said: “You lock it off. Three and a half hours they don’t have to worry about you. It’s like you are a pilot flying the plane.

“If you were like ‘oh there is turbulence up ahead I don’t know if we are going to land in Dallas, I am going to try hard but I don’t know if we are going to figure out’, everyone on the plane is going to freak out.

“You just have to have a calm cool collected tone of ‘We will be landing some turbulence ahead but nothing we haven’t dealt with before so keep your seatbelts fastened and welcome to the Eras Tour’.”