Taylor Swift's devastating family heartache as she opens up on ‘real problem’

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At the end of last year, influential American publication Time magazine gave Taylor Swift their Person of the Year award. In the accompanying interview, the singer remarked on the global success of The Eras Tour: “It feels like the breakthrough moment of my career, happening at 33.

And for the first time in my life, I was mentally tough enough to take what comes with that.” And what does come with that? A level of fame experienced only by a handful of women across the planet, at any point in modern times – equivalent only to the attention experienced by legendary icons like Elizabeth Taylor, Princess Diana and Madonna; an almost unprecedented level of intrusion into her private life (admittedly fuelled by the confessional nature of her lyrics); and, of course, enormous pressure not to fail.

Over the years, the attention, both good and bad, has had an effect on Taylor’s mental health, but from the word go, she has shared her emotions via the cathartic medium of her song-writing.

In 2010, she said, “From a young age, any time I would feel pain I would think, ‘It’s OK, I can write about this after school.’ As a young kid, I learned to process my emotions by writing.