Taylor Swift reveals her mom has a brain tumor

You may have noticed that Taylor Swift’s latest tour doesn’t have many stops in the United States.

In fact, there are only two U.S. cities on the list: Los Angeles and Foxborough, Mass.

In a new interview in Variety, the 30-year-old singer said that a prime reason for that is her mother’s health. Andrea Swift has been battling an undisclosed type of cancer.

It’s something Swift sings about on her latest album — on the track “Soon You’ll Get Better.”

In this most recent interview, Swift revealed that while filming “Miss Americana,” an upcoming documentary about Swift’s life on the road, her mother got even worse news.

“While she was going through treatment, they found a brain tumor,” Swift said. “And 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.”

“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.”

Swift says the news hit her pretty hard.

“Everyone loves their mom; everyone’s got an important mom,” Swift said. “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.”

“Miss Americana” is scheduled to hit Netflix on Jan. 31.