Taylor Swift Addresses Going Through 2 Breakups Before Meeting Travis Kelce

Taylor Swift credits her Eras Tour for helping her get through tough times.

“The Fate of Ophelia” singer, 36, revealed in episode four of her The End of an Era docuseries on Disney+ that she faced lots of heartache in her personal life amid the worldwide tour, which ran from March 2023 to December 2024.

“There were points in this tour when the tour was really the only thing that was really keeping me going in my life,” the Grammy winner admitted.

“But there were never points in the tour where I thought, ‘Oh, you know what? I want to quit the tour ‘cause the tour’s hard.’ No, my personal life was hard,” she continued. “I went through two breakups on the first half of this tour, and that’s a lot of breakups actually.”

The Grammy-award winner was seemingly referring to her split from British actor Joe Alwyn, 34, whom she dated for over six years before the pair called it quits in early 2023, and The 1975 frontman Matty Healy, with whom she had a brief romance following her split from Alwyn.

“The show was what gave me purpose and was what I could use to get me out of bed. So, the tour has never been the hard thing in my life,” Taylor shared in her documentary. “The tour has been the thing that has allowed me to find purpose outside of the s— that was going wrong in my life.”

“Men will let you down, the Eras Tour never will,” she added with a small smile.

Calling writing music “a form of therapy,” Taylor said of her 11th studio album, “Tortured Poets album is like this purge of… just, like, everything, everything bad that I felt for two years. It was a really rough time in my life, so the songs reflect that. Feeling like I’m not a person, I’m just this like, big conglomerate that no one sees as a real human being and especially not men that I date. And in the whole process just being like…nothing, nothing works. There’s no one for me in the world.”

While the Eras Tour brought some downhearted moments for the star, it also brought some more positive ones as well — especially since the tour was the catalyst for bringing her and fiancé Travis Kelce together. 

It was revealed in the docuseries that the pop star’s mom Andrea Swift, 67, came across headlines from Kelce’s New Heights podcast, in which the football player, 36, shared that he had wanted to give the Life of a Showgirl musician a friendship bracelet with his number on it. 

Andrea said she called up her cousin — the “resident expert on the Kansas City Chiefs” — who confirmed that Kelce was “the nicest guy” and he “really loves his mom.” Andrea said bells immediately rang in her head and she questioned how she was going to get her daughter to meet him. 

Taylor, who noted that she had been “very non-athlete” when it came to dating up until that point, recalled, “So, you call me up with this tone of like, ‘Hey so I know you’re not going to react well to this. But there’s a guy…,” to which her mom chimed in, “He’s really cute.” 

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The singer added to her mom, “You said something to the effect of like, ‘You gotta start doing something different.'”

Taylor ended the episode joking, “If you ever would have ever told me that the most meaningful relationship I would ever have would start with a man saying he was ‘butt hurt’ that I didn’t want to meet him, unbelievable.” 

The two began dating, and went public with their relationship in September 2023. The couple then went on to announce their engagement in August, with the “Shake It Off” singer writing alongside a several photos of the garden proposal: “Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married 🧨.”

A source told PEOPLE earlier this month that the singer and athlete still continue to prioritize their relationship. The insider shared, “Taylor’s had an incredibly full, demanding year and she’s really proud of everything she’s accomplished. She’s worked extremely hard and her schedule has been nonstop, but even with everything going on, she and Travis still put a lot into their relationship.”