Taylor Swift gifts fans tickets after security guard confrontation at Philadelphia show
Swift also interrupted the song "Bad Blood" to urge the guard to stop targeting one fan near the stage. "She wasn't doing anything," Swift said.
It was a swift act.
During the second night of Taylor Swift’s sold-out Eras Tour mini-residency at Lincoln Financial Field, the singer interrupted “Bad Blood” — a song literally about righting someone else’s wrongs — to chastise security guards who were allegedly getting too rough with a fan.
It all went down in the blink of a chorus on Saturday night, according to one video that’s been viewed more than 6 million times on Twitter: When a group of security guards at the Linc were allegedly harassing a group of female fans for touching the barricade, Swift paused the song to address them.
“She’s fine. She wasn’t doing anything,” Swift said in between bars. “Hey! Stop!”
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Two women who claim to be part of the targeted group have since taken to social media to share their story — which eventually had a fairy-tale ending.
TikTok user Caitlin Gabell posted a response from her friend Kelly Inglis-Kelly on Sunday morning on TikTok, where she claimed to be the girl Swift was defending and that the artist’s team offered them free tickets to the closing show for their troubles.
“The guard was just harassing our group all night … He was just on top of us. We’re dancing, we’re having fun, and he didn’t like it,” Inglis-Kelly said. “Taylor noticed … and then they offered us free tickets for tonight.”
@caityg33 #stitch with @Sonya (Eras 4/29) Its me, hi, im the problem @kellyinglis326 @Taylor Swift #erastour #lincolnfinancialfield #taylorswift #eras #badbloodtaylorsversion ♬ original sound - Caitlin Gabell
A Twitter user who goes by Cheyenne corroborated the account: “Taylor was yelling at a security guard because they fully kept putting their hands on us to physically push us off the barricade … We weren’t throwing anything, we weren’t screaming anything insane.”
Inglis-Kelly said the security guard was escorted off the premises after the comments.
A source close to the situation confirmed that an interaction between a fan and a security guard did occur on Friday night, and that it was “resolved and addressed internally.”
Swift’s Philadelphia stops have been chock full of full-circle fan moments: During opening night, the West Reading-born superstar finally confirmed that one lyric in “gold rush” is about our dear Birds. And on Saturday, Swift gave her hat to Mikael Arellano, the Swiftie-slash-accidental-choreographer whose viral dance to “Bejeweled” was incorporated into Swift’s performances.
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Inglis-Kelly, 33, is a schoolteacher from Baltimore who has seen Swift in concert 13 times, according to the Daily Mail. She was attending the Saturday show with Gabell and her sister, who scored the group last-minute tickets after they learned their original seats had an obstructed view.
“‘I can’t believe my life, what is happening. It was my 13th time seeing Taylor live, on the 13th May,” Inglis-Kelly told the Daily Mail. “It was like the Taylor Swift gods were listening.”