Taylor Swift sits on a couch backstage and sobs.
She’s wearing her show-opening sequined jacket and leotard, an outfit familiar to the millions of fans who watched her on The Eras Tour, about to dazzle London’s Wembley Stadium for the first of five sold-out shows.
But she has just come from meeting privately with the families of young people who were stabbed to death or injured weeks before at a dance class themed to her music in Southport, England.
As Swift covers her face to gather her tears, her mother, Andrea, tries to comfort her. Swift knows the show must go on and will compartmentalize her emotions for the next 3½ hours of her marathon concert.
It’s one of numerous strikingly unfiltered moments in “The End of an Era,” Swift’s six-part docuseries on Disney+. The first two episodes, screened by a small group of media earlier in the week in New York, arrive Dec. 12, with two more landing each Friday until Dec. 26.
