{"id":1317811,"date":"2020-01-21T12:25:28","date_gmt":"2020-01-21T19:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1816944"},"modified":"2020-01-21T12:25:28","modified_gmt":"2020-01-21T19:25:28","slug":"chemotherapy-reveals-more-bad-news-for-taylor-swifts-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/chemotherapy-reveals-more-bad-news-for-taylor-swifts-mother\/","title":{"rendered":"Chemotherapy Reveals More Bad News for Taylor Swift\u2019s Mother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"byline\"> by <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/author\/bonaguroa\/\" title=\"Posts by Alison Bonaguro\" rel=\"author\">Alison Bonaguro<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"date\"><br \/>\n47m ago<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span> <\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l4_6eQm7RTQ?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l4_6eQm7RTQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p>Andrea Swift has always been her daughter Taylor\u2019s go-to. In fact, the home movies that Swift used for her \u201cThe Best Day\u201d video back when her <em>Fearless<\/em> album was released more than 11 years ago are proof of that. <\/p>\n<p>And now, Swift has revealed that her mother has a brain tumor. <\/p>\n<p>In an <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2020\/music\/features\/taylor-swift-politics-sundance-documentary-miss-americana-1203471910\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">interview<\/a> with <em>Variety<\/em>, Swift explains that during her mother\u2019s second round of chemotherapy for cancer, the tumor was discovered. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone loves their mom,\u201d Swift acknowledged. \u201cEveryone\u2019s got an important mom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut for me, she\u2019s 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.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>While Andrea was going through a rough round of chemo, Taylor said, it got even worse. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile she was going through treatment, they found a brain tumor. And the symptoms of what a person goes through when they have a brain tumor is nothing like what we\u2019ve ever been through with her cancer before. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo it\u2019s just been a really hard time for us as a family.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo\" id=\"1401d867\">\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;img&quot;}\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/01\/GettyImages-111505260-1579634948.jpg?quality=0.85&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/01\/GettyImages-111505260-1579634948.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=481 481w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/01\/GettyImages-111505260-1579634948.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=660 660w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/01\/GettyImages-111505260-1579634948.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=768 768w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/01\/GettyImages-111505260-1579634948.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=980 980w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/01\/GettyImages-111505260-1579634948.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=1200 1200w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/01\/GettyImages-111505260-1579634948.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=1500 1500w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/01\/GettyImages-111505260-1579634948.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=1800 1800w\" title=\"46th Annual Academy Of Country Music Awards - Backstage And Audience\" class=\" js-srcset-img shortcode-image \" alt><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"photocredit\"> Kevin Winter <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Later in the story, Swift shared that while it has been inevitable that people (both friends and foes) think of her as a brand, she wants them to know she\u2019s more than that. \u201cI do think that it\u2019s really necessary to feel like I can still communicate with people. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd as a songwriter, it\u2019s really important to still feel human and process things in a human way. The through line of all that is humanity, and reaching out and talking to people and having them see things that aren\u2019t cute.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo\" id=\"74c65182\">\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;img&quot;}\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/01\/GettyImages-85794960-1579635157.jpg?quality=0.85&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/01\/GettyImages-85794960-1579635157.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=481 481w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/01\/GettyImages-85794960-1579635157.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=660 660w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/01\/GettyImages-85794960-1579635157.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=768 768w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/01\/GettyImages-85794960-1579635157.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=980 980w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/01\/GettyImages-85794960-1579635157.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=1200 1200w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/01\/GettyImages-85794960-1579635157.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=1500 1500w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/01\/GettyImages-85794960-1579635157.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=1800 1800w\" title=\"2007 CMT Music Awards - Red Carpet\" class=\" js-srcset-img shortcode-image \" alt><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"photocredit\"> Kevin Mazur <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"author\">\n<div class=\"description\"> Alison makes her living loving country music. She&#8217;s based in Chicago, but she&#8217;s always leaving her heart in Nashville. <\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/alisonbonaguro\" target=\"_BLANK\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@alisonbonaguro<\/a> <\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1816944\/chemotherapy-reveals-more-bad-news-for-taylor-swifts-mother\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Alison Bonaguro 47m ago Embedded from www.youtube.com. Andrea Swift has always been her daughter Taylor\u2019s go-to. In fact, the home movies that Swift used for her \u201cThe Best Day\u201d video back when her Fearless album was released more than 11 years ago are proof of that. And now, Swift has revealed that her mother [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1317811","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 00:11:47","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1317811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1317811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1317811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1317811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}