Gracie Abrams Reads Speech at Final Show of Taylor Swift’s ‘Eras ​​Tour’

Gracie Abrams he’s like the rest of us – we’re not ready to say goodbye Taylor Swift‘s The Eras Tour.

Abrams, 25, who also served as a guest performer during Swift’s final show at BC Place in Vancouver, Canada, on Sunday, December 8, entered the stage with a sheet of paper before performing one last time.

Reading an emotional speech from the crowd, which was filmed by a fan and posted on TikTok that night, Abrams said she was “not ready for it to be over,” before paying tribute to the profound impact Swift, 34, has had on her. life.

“How are you all, me [was] you were raised on Taylor songs,” began Abrams, wearing an angelic white dress. “Magically, I need a moment in my life where I didn’t think anyone else could understand us or know us or hurt us or long for us or be loved or lost, yet he did. How should we have words? We don’t know yet. But I know we have each other, thanks to Taylor, his music, his generosity, his curiosity, his wild and incomparable pen, his great ability to see into our lives and create the soundtrack for every single creative moment we’ve had again. that we will have.”

At one point, Abrams, who performed a duet with Swift during the show on Saturday, December 7, held in Vancouver, felt bad about his voice. The singer, however, pushed on, telling the crowd that his work for the night was clear.

“We’re all here to remind him how deeply he touched us,” Abrams continued. “How grateful we are for all the little details he dreams up to make us happy and we thank him, from the bottom of our hearts, for giving us the time of our lives.”

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Swift rode the The Eras Tour in Glendale, Arizona, in March 2023, performing across the United States until August 2023. He then embarked on the international leg of his tour, visiting South America, Asia, Australia and Europe in between of November 2023 and August.

In October, Swift returned to North America for a few final shows in the US and Canada.

Abrams was a self-proclaimed Swiftite before befriending Swift, he said Vanity Fair in a July 2023 profile saying, “every positive memory in my life is paired with a Taylor Swift song that got me through.”

Shortly before the two met, Abrams received a call from an unknown number inviting her to Swift’s birthday party. She immediately called the same producer to confirm the digits belonged to Swift before responding in an effort to avoid getting her hopes up if she wasn’t a pop star.

Related: Taylor Swift and Gracie Abrams Friendship Timeline

Gracie Abrams used to call herself a Swiftie before she became friends with Taylor Swift. “Every positive memory in my life is associated with a Taylor Swift song that got me through,” Abrams told Vanity Fair in a July 2023 profile. “My boyfriend did a thing one day where we published his discography […]

Swift then invited Abrams to be one of the original actors on the show The Eras Tour.

“[It was] the best experience of my life,” Abrams revealed at the concert during an interview with December 2023 Variety. “Having that become a part of my weekly routine for four months straight has come out in every aspect of my life, not just how happy I am inside, but the songs we’ve been making.”

In June, Swift confirmed that the tour would end in December, calling the project “the most exhausting, all-encompassing, but most exciting, most rewarding, most beautiful thing that has ever happened in my life.”