Add family caregiver to Taylor Swift’s long résumé.
The global pop star recently shared her caregiving experience with her father, Scott Swift, 73. He required quintuple bypass surgery this summer after doctors found five blocked arteries during a resting stress test.
Appearing on the New Heights podcast hosted by Jason and Travis Kelce, Taylor, who was sitting next to Travis, her NFL star boyfriend, said she, mother Andrea Swift, 67, and brother Austin Swift, 33, were by her father’s side after the surgery.
“My brother, my mom and I were each taking shifts in the ICU and staying with him 24/7,” she said.
A quintuple bypass surgery involves taking blood vessels from another part of the body and transplanting them onto the affected heart vessels to reroute blood flow around the blockages, according to Verywell Health.
The Grammy-winning artist noted that taking care of her dad felt like a “parent-child reversal in a lot of ways.” She compared her dad to a teenager because her brother told her he was Facetiming his friends all night and needed his phone taken away so he could recover.
The “Shake It Off” singer said she remembers her dad building “play sets and swing sets and cribs” for her when she was young, but now she is responsible for assembling his medical equipment.
“I’m building his shower chair and his walker and his bed,” Taylor said. “It’s just surreal, man. We just all moved in with him the whole summer, pretty much.”
She was also helping her father walk “on his harness,” a device used to support his chest after surgery. She called him “the loveliest patient ever” and said he’s doing “incredibly well.”
“He just kept saying ‘thank you’ over and over again,” she added.
The caregiving didn’t stop there. Swift also mentioned that Andrea recently got a “new knee” and is “doing great.”