Gracie Abrams tells how Travis Kelce calmed her down at Taylor Swift’s show

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Taylor Swift’s show at London’s Wembley Stadium on June 23 was star-studded: Travis Kelce made a surprise appearance on stage before “I Can Do It With a Broken Heart” and Gracie Abrams surprised the audience with the live debut of her Swift collaboration “Us.”

Abrams spoke to SiriusXM about the performance, revealing that the Kansas City Chiefs tight end playfully calmed her down before she took the stage. “Before we both performed, we were in the tent and he was like – he performed right before me, I think two songs or something. He was like, ‘I’m going to mess it up so you look really good,'” she recalled.

The singer added of the Eras Tour: “The thing is, it’s just a community of really supportive people. Really, everyone, whether you’re in the tent or the top row in the stadium, it’s like everyone is there because there’s such deep joy and emotion attached to all the music that she’s put out over the last 18 years and it’s like, I don’t know. It’s a really magical thing.”

“Us” is featured on Abrams’ second studio album with 13 tracks The secret of uswhich was released just days earlier. The night they wrote the duet will be hard to forget, as the songwriting session ended in flames: a candle started a small kitchen fire, which Swift herself was able to put out with a fire extinguisher.

Abrams, 24, spent the summer opening for Swift’s The Epoch Toura role she will reprise later this fall on select dates in North America. She will embark on her very own headlining tour of major theaters across the United States beginning September 5 in Portland.

The secret of us contains the previously released tracks “Risk” and “Close to You”, which debuted at number 49 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and is the follow-up to Abrams’ debut album Goodbye forever, which was released in February 2023 and peaked at number 52 on the Billboard 200.