- - Taylor Swift Admits She Felt 'Like a Dumbass' Crying on Stage During Eras Tour but Reveals Emotional Reason for Her Tears

Rachel DeSantisDecember 23, 2025 at 10:04 PM

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Taylor Swift crying during the Eras Tour on Nov. 23, 2024. -

Taylor Swift revealed why she cried on stage during a 2024 Eras Tour show in her docuseries Taylor Swift: The End of an Era

Swift said she "felt like a dumbass" crying on stage

She said she was moved by a speech her backup singer gave about losing her mother

Taylor Swift’s emotions got the best of her during one of her final Eras Tour shows — but for good reason.

Swift, 36, struggled through tears while playing her final night in Toronto in November 2024, telling the crowd she was “just having a bit of a moment” after performing “Marjorie,” a song written for her late grandmother.

In a new episode of her Disney+ docuseries Taylor Swift: The End of an Era, the pop superstar revealed that she found her waterworks “kind of embarrassing,” but was feeling emotional because of a pre-show speech backup singer Kamilah Marshall gave about losing her mother.

“I got emotional. I felt like a dumbass,” Swift told her brother Austin in a car after the show.

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Taylor Swift gets emotional during a show in Toronto on Nov. 23, 2024.

While Austin, 33, assured his sibling that her tears were “the best part,” Swift felt otherwise, saying, “I couldn’t put words together, Austin. That was kind of embarrassing. That’s nice of you to say, though, you’re a very supportive person.”

The “Opalite” singer went on to explain that she’d been moved earlier in the night by Marshall’s speech, in which she spoke about having to balance her feelings of pure joy on the Eras Tour with the heartbreak of her mother’s 2021 death.

“What got me was like, Kamilah made this speech before the show where she was talking about how her mom died. And she was just saying how heartbroken she is that her mom never got to see the Eras Tour and never got to see her do this,” Swift said. “And I was just thinking about it all night. And I knew that and we always used to make eye contact on ‘Marjorie,’ me and Kamilah, because of her mom.”

The star went on to say that Marshall talking about her own loss helped Swift put things in perspective, and she was grateful that her parents Scott and Andrea were able to see the tour.

“It put it in perspective, like, I don’t know, the fact that Mom did get to see it and Travis got to see it and Dad got to see it, and I just felt so lucky and that’s what cracked me,” she told her brother. “It cracked me wide open.”

At that point, Scott called, and Swift put him on speakerphone in the car.

“Oh my God, it was unreal. It was just incredible,” he told his daughter, while Andrea added, “It really was. And I think you have every right to feel emotional because it has to be hitting you, honey, that this has been the dream tour of your life.”

Swift admitted that it was hitting her, and said she “never thought we’d do something this good… It’s so crazy that all of this has happened and we all got to experience it together.”

Elsewhere in the episode, Andrea talked about Marjorie’s career as an opera singer, and the ways in which it prepared her to handle her daughter’s career.

“It was a beautiful relationship I had with my mom, but it was all with a full awareness that my mom was this person who loved singing, who loved to perform, and that people love,” she said. “I think that prepared me probably better than anything could have for having a child like Taylor, who pretty much wanted to follow in my mother’s footsteps.”

Marjorie died in 2003, before Swift found success as a singer-songwriter. The star dedicated “Marjorie” to her grandmother as a track on her 2020 album Evermore, and performed it each night on the Eras Tour.

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