SINGER Taylor Swift has revealed that her mother Andrea has been diagnosed with a brain tumor as she battles breast cancer for a second time.
The Trouble hitmaker, 30, discussed her mother's health publicly for the first time and explained that doctors made the devastating health discovery as her 62-year-old mother underwent chemotherapy.
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Speaking to Variety about how her family have been coping, she revealed: "She was going through chemo, and that’s a hard enough thing for a person to go through. While she was going through treatment, they found a brain tumor."
Keeping her mother's health battle private until now, Taylor, who was promoting her upcoming documentary Miss Americana, explained how "hard" it has been for them as a family.
She added: "[Cancer] is a hard enough thing for a person to go through... The symptoms of what a person goes through when they have a brain tumor is nothing like what we’ve ever been through with her cancer before.
"So it’s just been a really hard time for us as a family."
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The pop superstar's mother was first diagnosed with cancer in 2015 and following treatment went into remission.
However, Andrea's cancer returned in March during filming for Swift's Netflix documentary, which premieres at Sundance Film Festival on January 23.
In the same interview, the Lover songstress revealed she condensed her usual yearlong tour into nine months so she could support Andrea through her diagnosis.
She continued: "Yeah, that's it. That's the reason. I mean, we don't know what is going to happen. We don't know what treatment we're going to choose. It just was the decision to make at the time, for right now, for what's going on."
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Taylor also explained how speaking openly about her mother's illness publicly was a big step for her.
She shared: "Everyone loves their mom; everyone's got an important mom. But for me, she's really the guiding force. Almost every decision I make, I talk to her about it first. So obviously it was a really big deal to ever speak about her illness."
The global superstar recently touched on her mother's health woes in her latest album Lover called You’ll Get Better Soon.
The heartbreaking ode to Andrea, which features The Dixie Chicks, sees Taylor sing lyrics such as: "And I hate to make this all about me. But who am I supposed to talk to? What am I supposed to do? If there is no you."
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As well as: "It’s been years of hoping and I keep saying it cause I have to - you’ll get better."
In August, Taylor discussed how difficult it was to write the heartfelt track during a YouTube Live event and said it was a "family decision" whether to include it on her latest album.
"That was really, really hard to write, and it was also just a family decision whether to even put it on the album," Taylor reflected.
"I think songs that are really hard for you to write emotionally, maybe they're really hard to write and hard to sing because they're really true."
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She penned: "My mom is now fighting her battle with it again. It's taught me that there are real problems and then there's everything else.
"My mom's cancer is a real problem. I used to be so anxious about daily ups and downs. I give all of my worry, stress, and prayers to real problems now."
Taylor's Netflix doc Miss Americana will be released on the streaming service come January 31.
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