Taylor Swift breaks down in tears on stage in Toronto as she prepares to bid farewell to her beloved Eras Tour in poignant final documentary episode

It’s widely been described as the most monumental period of time in her glittering career.

So it’s no surprise that it would be hugely emotional for Taylor Swift to say goodbye to The Eras Tour.

In scenes captured for the last two episode of her Disney+ documentary series The End of an Era, the singer, 36, breaks down in tears while on stage as she prepares to bid farewell to her life on the road.

The tour featured 149 shows across five continents. It concluded in December 2024, making it the first tour ever to gross over $2 billion and the highest-grossing tour in history.

The final leg of her shows in Canada this time last year saw her perform in Toronto where she addressed her emotions in front of thousands of fans.

Taking a short break to speak to the audience during her combined Evermore and Folklore set she stumbled over her words and couldn’t hold back her tears.  

She said as the crowd cheered her enthusiastically: ‘Toronto we are coming to the end of this show so you have no idea what this reaction means to me…’ 

Breaking down she added: ‘To the crew and everyone who has put so much into this tour – I don’t even know what I’m saying anymore… I’m just having a bit of a moment sorry. It’s not even the last show!’ 

After the show she was then seen debriefing with her brother Austin as she said of her crying moment on stage: ‘I got emotional I felt like a dumb**s. I couldn’t put words together Austin it was kind of embarrassing…’

She then calls her mother Andrea about the show as she tells her: ‘It’s gonna be an emotional time from here to the end…’

The final two episodes of the docuseries followed Taylor and her team as they prepared to end the tour that had dominated their lives for two years.

The final performance took place in Vancouver on December 8. 

Ahead of the last show she says: ‘When all if this is over I am excited to regain some time and do the things I used to do that I’ve had to cut out. 

‘I used to have hobbies and a personality outside of this show. I can’t remember what they are. Every single day for the last six months I’ve been preparing for this day.

‘I’ve been holding my breath for a year and eight months just hoping that we’d be safe we wouldn’t be injured, no harm would come to the tour. It’s overwhelming. I’m just feeling thankful.’

It comes after in episode four of the docuseries she candid about heartbreak on the Eras Tour and told how her mom and Travis Kelce helped turn her luck around after she thought she’d never meet anyone again.

She said that while the worldwide tour (March 2023–December 2024) kept her going, her personal life was anything but easy.

‘There were points in this tour when the tour was really the only thing that was really keeping me going in my life,’ she 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.’

Fans immediately pegged her comments as a nod to her split from British actor Joe Alwyn, 34, after more than six years together, and The 1975 frontman Matty Healy, whom she briefly dated after the Alwyn split.

She punctuated the revelation with a grin and a savage line: ‘Men will let you down, the Eras Tour never will.’

Reiterating just how much the Eras Tour kept her afloat, Swift explained, ‘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. The tour has been the thing that has allowed me to find purpose outside of the s*** that was going wrong in my life.’

She also revealed that writing her 11th album, The Tortured Poets Department, helped her process those tough times. 

‘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 like 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.’

Even amid heartbreak, the tour unexpectedly set the stage for her relationship with now-fiancé Kelce. 

In the docuseries, Taylor explains how her mom, Andrea Swift, 67, spotted headlines from Kelce’s New Heights podcast, in which the 36-year-old football star said he wanted to give Taylor a friendship bracelet with his number.

Andrea immediately called a cousin – the family’s ‘resident expert on the Kansas City Chiefs’ – who confirmed Kelce was ‘the nicest guy’ and genuinely devoted to his mom. 

Bells went off in Andrea’s head as she considered how to get her daughter to meet him.

Taylor recalled the conversation: ‘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…,” with her mom cutting in, ‘He’s really cute.’ 

Taylor added, ‘You said something to the effect of like you gotta start doing something different.’

She wrapped up the episode with a laugh: ‘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 couple went public in September 2023 and announced their engagement in August 2024.