Taylor Swift Donates $100K to Young Swiftie With Brain Cancer: ‘Sending the Biggest Hug’
Taylor Swift is keeping her giving streak going by donating a life-changing chunk of change to Lilah, a 2-year-old Swiftie who’s battling brain cancer.
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The pop star quietly contributed $100k to a GoFundMe page raising money for the toddler and her family as Lilah undergoes treatment for “a very rare aggressive form of brain cancer” with only “58 documented cases in the U.S. last year,” according to the fundraiser’s description. Shortly before she received the diagnosis, doctors had removed a mass that turned out to be a stage 4 tumor in her brain.
Along with her donation, Swift wrote, “Sending the biggest hug to my friend, Lilah! Love, Taylor.”
After noticing that the 14-time Grammy winner had donated, a wave of Swifties also joined the cause, leaving $13 contributions and adding supportive messages to Lilah inspired by Swift’s lyrics. “We protect the family,” one person wrote, quoting the singer’s The Life of a Showgirl track “Father Figure.”
“Lilah – Keep dancing through the lightning strikes until your sky is opalite!” another donor commented, referencing Showgirl‘s “Opalite.” “All of us Swifties are [rooting] for you.”
What makes the outpouring of love for Lilah even sweeter is how the little girl’s mom, Katelynn, has previously posted about how much her daughter loves Swift. “Lilah loves Taylor’s music and during her cancer treatment she always found joy in it,” Katelynn wrote on TikTok earlier in October, noting that Lilah thinks of Swift as her “friend.”
Swift is known for shelling out donations to people in need, and in June, she visited patients in a children’s hospital in Florida. Lilah’s treatment also isn’t the first cause the Eras Tour headliner has inspired fans to support. This past month, Swifties helped raise $2 million for the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s otter conservation efforts after Swift sported one of the organization’s vintage T-shirts.
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