Arts & Entertainment
Taylor Swift Defends Baltimore Fan 'Harassed' By Security At Concert
In a video seen more than 6.2 million times on Twitter, Taylor Swift paused during a PA concert to ask a guard to leave an MD fan alone.
PHILADELPHIA, PA — A Baltimore woman is thanking pop superstar Taylor Swift after the singer stopped in the middle of a Philadelphia concert to defend the woman during an apparent dispute with a security guard.
In a video seen more than 6.2 million times on Twitter, Swift stopped during her performance of "Bad Blood" to address someone offstage.
"She's fine," the singer says before adding, "She didn't do anything."
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Swift briefly continued the song before pausing again. "Hey, stop!" she says twice.
It's unclear in the video what was happening or who the pop star was addressing. However, Kelly Inglis of Baltimore — a mother and elementary school teacher in Timonium, CBS News reported — explained in a video shared on friend Caitlin Gabell's TikTok account.
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In the caption, Inglis wrote, "Its me, hi, im the problem," referencing Swift's song, "Anti-Hero."
"Basically, the (security) guard had been harassing our group all night just to, like, he kept telling us not to touch the rail, and every time we did anything, he was like on top of us," she said in the video posted Sunday. "We're dancing, we're having fun, and he didn't like it. And Taylor noticed that I was having fun and that he didn't like it, and she didn't like it."
According to Inglis, the security guard was escorted out of the concert, and she and her friends were offered free tickets to the following night's show.
CBS Baltimore reached out to concert venue Lincoln Financial Field for comment. A spokesperson for the stadium said the issue was addressed and resolved internally.
In a follow-up post on her own TikTok, Inglis thanked Swift for her actions.
"I have been a huge fan, Taylor, since I was 17 years old," Inglis said. "The fact that you did that for me last night and you stood up for me meant so, so, so much."
Inglis continued, "You did that for me and for your fans, and if there's anything that I know about you, you just want your fans to go to the show and have fun, and that's all we were doing."
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