Taylor in tears for Southport victims

DISTRAUGHT Taylor Swift broke down as she spoke publicly about the Southport attack for the first time.

- BY LAUREN MORRIS

The singer wept while talking about the tragic event, in which three young girls were killed and 10 others were injured at a dance class set to her music last July.

The mass stabbing spree by Axel Rudakubana, then 17, claimed the lives of Bebe King, six, Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, and Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine.

Speaking in her documentary End of an Era, Taylor, 36, became emotional as she also recalled threats of terror attacks against her fans in Austria last August.

Three of her Eras tour concerts in Vienna were pulled as a result.

Voice breaking as she was filmed ahead of her Wembley show, the star said: “It is a weird feeling going into these last five shows in Europe because it sort of feels like, we've done 128 shows so far but this is the first one where I feel like I am skating on thin ice or something.

“We've had a series of violent, scary things happen to the tour, like we dodged a massacre situation, and so I've just been all over the place. There was this horrible attack in Liverpool at a Taylor Swift themed dance party and it was little kids.”

Crying, the star added: “I have a hard time explaining it.”