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The
singer also applauded authorities for foiling the plan to cause
mass harm at Ernst Happel Stadium, the venue where she was
scheduled to play.
"Thanks to them, we were grieving concerts and not lives," Swift
said on Instagram in her first public comments since news of the
planned attack surfaced two weeks ago.
Police in Austria arrested a 19-year-old man who they said
confessed to wanting to cause a "bloodbath" at Swift's Eras Tour
shows.
"Having our Vienna shows canceled was devastating," Swift said.
"The reason for the cancellations filled me with a new sense of
fear, and a tremendous amount of guilt because so many people
had planned on coming to those shows."
Swift said she decided "all of my energy had to go toward
helping to protect the nearly half a million people I had coming
to see the shows in London."
The London dates took place without incident and concluded on
Tuesday, ending the European leg of the record-breaking Eras
Tour.
The singer said she had not commented earlier because she did
not want to risk provoking harm at future concerts.
"Let me be very clear: I am not going to speak about something
publicly if I think doing so might provoke those who would want
to harm the fans who come to my shows," Swift wrote. "In cases
like this one, 'silence' is actually showing restraint."
Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer responded to her post by
saying Swift had sent a "clear message."
"We look forward to future and safe concerts from you and
cordially invite you to Vienna!" he wrote on X.
The Eras Tour, the highest-grossing concert tour in history, is
now on a scheduled break. It will resume with final dates from
October through December in the United States and Canada.
(Reporting by Lisa Richwine, additional reporting by Dave Graham
in Zurich; editing by Diane Craft and Ana Nicolaci da Costa)
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