Taylor's tears for Southport victims

Taylor Swift cries after meeting the Southport victims' families privately backstage at Wembley

- BY LAUREN MORRIS

An upset Taylor and, clockwise from above, tragic Alice, Bebe and Elsie Dot

DISTRAUGHT Taylor Swift breaks down as she speaks publicly about the Southport attack for the first time.

The singer wept while talking about the tragic event, in which three young girls were killed and 10 kids 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.