Taylor Swift Visits Families at Kansas City’s Children’s Mercy Hospital
Pop megastar Taylor Swift reportedly made a surprise appearance on Thursday at Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri.
Swift, 34, visited children on the hospital’s hematology and oncology floor, local news station KCTV 5 reported.
The billionaire singer is fresh off her blockbuster Eras Tour, after which she reportedly awarded the crew nearly $200 million in bonuses.
The Eras Tour spanned 21 months, and according to numbers released by Swift’s production company, Taylor Swift Touring, it grossed more than $2 billion worldwide.
That figure shattered the previous record for ticket sales, which was set by Coldplay when it sold $1 billion in tickets for its Spheres World Tour, per Billboard magazine.
According to KCTV 5, Swift spent at least an hour meeting children and fans at Children’s Mercy Hospital on Thursday.
Taylor Swift performing on stage at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin on June 28. Swift reportedly surprised patients at a hospital in Kansas City after her Eras Tour wrapped.
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Swift has been in a relationship with Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce for over a year.
Kelce’s father, Ed, recently opened up about spending Christmas with Swift.
“Trying to buy Taylor a present is like trying to buy Jason or Travis a present,” Travis’ father, Ed, said Thursday on a radio show in Cleveland. “There’s nothing they want, that they don’t already have. There’s nothing they think they might get, that they haven’t already figured out exactly what model. You can’t go that route.”
Kelce attended several of Swift’s performances during the Eras Tour, to the delight of her fans, known as Swifties.
Swift, in turn, surprised Kelce by changing the lyrics of one of her songs, “Karma,” in a shoutout to her beau.
The original lyric was, “Karma is the guy on the screen, coming straight home to me.” But the crowd erupted after Swift changed the words slightly, while Kelce was in the audience, singing: “Karma is the guy on the Chiefs, coming straight home to me.”
“Shoutout to Tay,” he said during the December 11 episode of the New Heights podcast alongside his brother, Jason. “The unbelievable Eras Tour has finally come to an end.”
“A f–kton is kind of how I sum it up,” he said when his brother asked him how many shows Swift had performed. “It’s insane. Absolutely insane. Over 10 million people in the stands over the course of it, like, cumulatively. It’s pretty crazy.”
According to figures released by Swift’s touring company, 10,168,008 people attended the megastar’s concerts during the Eras Tour.
Update 12/13/24, 10:46 p.m.: This article was updated with additional information.