Taylor Swift has made a significant charitable gesture in honor of her father, Scott Swift.
The 36-year-old music icon has generously donated $1 million to the American Heart Association.
Swift’s father, aged 73, underwent quintuple bypass surgery in June to address “five hard blockages.”
In a statement on Instagram, the organization shared, “Taylor’s donation will help enhance ongoing scientific research, improve prevention and treatment methods, and widen access to life-saving care for communities everywhere.”
This donation follows a previous $1 million contribution Swift made to Feeding America, a nonprofit network of 200 food banks dedicated to combating hunger across the United States.
The 14-time Grammy award winner was astonished to learn that despite her father’s consistently healthy EKGs during annual check-ups, it was a resting stress test that revealed the underlying issue.
Taylor Swift is certainly feeling the Christmas spirit as she made her second $1 million donation on Tuesday, this time, to the American Heart Association in honor of her father Scott Swift (R, pictured in 2024)
The 36-year-old pop star used a portion of her $1.6 billion fortune to help the organization ‘advance ongoing scientific research, stronger prevention and treatment efforts, as well as expanded access to life‑saving care for every community’
‘He’s been telling all his friends [they] need to get the stress test because that’s what’s actually preventative,’ Swift recalled on her fiancé Travis Kelce’s New Heights podcast August 13.
‘If you can find that earlier, you don’t have to have a bypass surgery. You can sort out those blockages with stents and things that are a lot less invasive.’
The Father Figure singer spent the entire summer in Florida helping the financial adviser — whom she calls her ‘best friend’ — recover, and she called the parent–child reversal ‘wild.’
‘This dude built playsets and swing sets and cribs for me,’ Swift recalled.
‘I’m building his shower chair and his walker and his like bed that goes like this. Like it’s just surreal, man…[My brother Austin] had a little harness for my dad, just like walking dad on his harness. And he was like the loveliest patient ever. He just kept saying thank you over and over again.’
Scott reportedly inspired the Pennsylvania-born belter’s songs The Best Day (2008), Never Grow Up (2010), Mine (2010) and But Daddy I Love Him (2024).
Swift’s latest charitable act came the same day she donated $1 million to Feeding America for families facing hunger.
Eleven days ago, she handed out $750,000 bonus checks to her backup dancers in her Disney+ docuseries The End of an Era.
Swift knows all too well about the dangers of cardiovascular disease after her 73-year-old stock broker dad underwent quintuple bypass surgery in June to remove ‘five hard blockages’ (pictured in 2024)
The 14-time Grammy winner marveled at the fact that Scott always had healthy EKGs at his annual physicals, but it was a resting stress test that alerted him to the problem
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Swift recalled on her fiancé Travis Kelce’s (M) New Heights podcast August 13: ‘He’s been telling all his friends [they] need to get the stress test because that’s what’s actually preventative’
The Father Figure singer spent the entire summer in Florida helping the financial adviser – whom she calls her ‘best friend’ – recover and called the parent child reversal ‘wild’
Swift’s latest charitable act came the same day she donated $1 million to Feeding America for families facing hunger and 11 days after she handed out $750,000 bonus checks to her back-up dancers in her Disney+ docuseries The End of an Era
The Opalite songstress will be tying the knot with the 36-year-old Kansas City Chiefs tight end
Kelce’s $17 million/year contract with the Chiefs will soon expire as some NFL experts are predicting his games scheduled for this Thursday in Kansas City and January 4 in Las Vegas will be the last before retiring (pictured Sunday)
The homeschooled millennial’s 12th studio album The Life of a Showgirl marked its 10th nonconsecutive week atop the Billboard 200 chart dated December 27
Meanwhile, the star is also busy planning her wedding to fiancé Travis Kelce.
Kelce’s $17 million per year contract with the Chiefs will soon expire as some NFL experts are predicting his games scheduled for this Thursday in Kansas City and January 4 in Las Vegas will be the last before retiring.
Swift previously dated Taylor Lautner, John Mayer, Jake Gyllenhaal, Harry Styles, Conor Kennedy, Calvin Harris, Tom Hiddleston, Joe Alwyn and Matthew Healy.
The homeschooled millennial’s 12th studio album The Life of a Showgirl marked its 10th nonconsecutive week atop the Billboard 200 chart dated December 27.
