How sad... Taylor Swift's Mum has cancer

She took to social media to announce that her mum had been diagnosed of cancer but didn't say the nature or severity of the cancer, that part she wanted to keep private.
Her mum, 57 quit her job years ago in order to focus on raising her kids, Taylor and her younger brother, Austin.

Taylor Swift had asked her mum to go for a check up on Christmas last year. Although she felt fine and saw no reason why she should go, Swift's mum decided to take the tests just to get her daughter off her back. Sadly, the results finally came in and her mum was diagnosed of cancer.
CNN reports that #PrayForMamaSwift was a trending hashtag Thursday on Twitter, where Swift's legions of fans offered prayers and messages of support.
Within an hour and a half, Swift's tweet about her mom had been retweeted more than 21,000 times.

Many fans shared "there's something in your eyes that says we can beat this," a lyric from Swift's 2008 song "Change."

Swift also urged her fans to make sure their parents get screened for cancer and other potential health problems.

"She wanted you to know because your parents may be too busy juggling everything they've got going on to go to the doctor, and maybe you reminding them to go get checked for cancer could possibly lead to an early diagnosis and an easier battle ..." she wrote. "Or peace of mind in knowing that they're healthy and there's nothing to worry about."


Swift, 25, added that "usually when things happen to me, I process them and then write music about how I feel, and you hear it much later. This is something my family and I thought you should know about now.

"Thank you for caring about my family so much that she would want me to share this information with you. I hope and pray that you never get news like this."

Finlay and Swift's father, Scott Kingsley Swift, live in Nashville, Tennessee, in a mansion bought by their daughter in 2011 for $2.5 million.