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Pro wrestler Jeff Jarrett shares Taylor Swift gave a 3-hour private concert for his wife during cancer battle

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<p>Professional wrestler Jeff Jarrett shared that Taylor Swift once performed for his wife who was battling cancer.  </p><p>In an interview with <em>TMZ Sports</em>, the Jeff relayed that the private concert happened in Henderson, Tennessee where Taylor started her music career.</p><p>&quot;It was Christmas of 2006. My first wife (Jill Gregory) was really ill with breast cancer. She passed away about five months after this, so she was really ill,&quot; Jeff recounted.</p><p>At that time, Taylor already released her first studio album. She was then invited by a friend to Jeff&#x27;s home.</p><p>&quot;A friend of Taylor said, &#x27;Hey why don&#x27;t you drop by.&#x27; Obviously, like every little girl in America, my daughters were big Taylor fans. Her songs had just kinda broke,&quot; he recalled.</p><p>Initially, Taylor visited without her guitar and returned back home to get it to perform her Jeff&#x27;s family.</p><p>&quot;She came over and didn&#x27;t bring her guitar in, but she actually ran back home that day &#x27;cause the girls wanted her to sing and play,&quot; the WWE Hall of Famer shared. </p><p>&quot;It just started out with you know.. the girls, 5, 6, 7 people was there and it was around Christmas time, and it was on a weekend and kinda one thing lead to another... some more people drop by and by the end of the afternoon Taylor played about three hours... and our great room, it&#x27;s a pretty big space, there was probably 35, 40, [or] 45 people at the end of it,&quot; he recalled.</p><p>He added: &quot;We&#x27;ve known her beforehand, again in the community but that was where, I think in a lot of ways, and I get emotional saying this, she kinda bonded with the family, specifically with the girls.&quot;</p><p>After his wife passed away, Jeff relayed that Taylor continued bonding with his daughters. </p><div><br/></div><iframe class="instagram-media instagram-media-rendered" id="instagram-embed-0" src="https://www.instagram.com/p/DB9p-9cykPB/embed/?cr=1&amp;v=14&amp;wp=540&amp;rd=https%3A%2F%2Fod2-workbench-web.abs-cbn.com&amp;rp=%2F#%7B%22ci%22%3A0%2C%22os%22%3A655794%7D" allowtransparency="true" allowfullscreen="" frameBorder="0" height="665" data-instgrm-payload-id="instagram-media-payload-0" scrolling="no" style="background:white;max-width:540px;width:calc(100% - 2px);border-radius:3px;border:1px solid rgb(219, 219, 219);box-shadow:none;display:block;margin:0px 0px 12px;min-width:326px;padding:0px"></iframe><script async="" src="//www.instagram.com/embed.js"></script><div><br/></div><div><br/></div><p>Taylor released her self-titled first studio album on October 24, 2006 with the song &quot;Tim McGraw&quot; as the lead single. Other singles of the album included &quot;Teardrops on My Guitar,&quot; &quot;Our Song,&quot; &quot;Picture to Burn,&quot; and &quot;Should&#x27;ve Said No.&quot;</p><p>Since then, the singer went on to become a global pop star, recently concluding the first $2 billion tour in history, which is the<em> Eras Tour.</em></p><p>The singer is set to release her 12th studio album, <em>The Life of a Showgirl</em>, on October 3.</p><p>In a recent interview on the <em>New Heights</em> podcast, the global pop star relayed that the album tells the story of her life offstage.</p><p>&quot;This album is about what was going on behind the scenes in my inner life during [the Eras] tour, which was so exuberant and electric and vibrant,&quot; she said. &quot;It just comes from the most infectiously joyful, wild, dramatic place I was in in my life, and so that effervescence has come through on this record.&quot;</p><p>The singer shared that she created the album alongside music producers Max Martin and Shellback whom she considers her mentors. They previously worked together in hit tracks like &quot;We Are Never Getting Back Together,&quot; &quot;Blank Space,&quot; &quot;Shake It Off,&quot; and &quot;Delicate.&quot; The last time they have worked together was on Taylor&#x27;s<em> Reputation</em> album.</p>

<p>Jeff Jarrett says that Taylor Swift visited their home in Christmas of 2006 and held a private concert for his wife who was battling cancer at the time. </p>

Jeff Jarrett says that Taylor Swift visited their home in Christmas of 2006 and held a private concert for his wife who was battling cancer at the time.