Taylor Swift can do it with a broken heart — and a hand injury, apparently.
In Episode 3 of her "The End of an Era" docuseries, Swift hits the stage immediately after injuring herself backstage.
Swift recalls the incident while giving fans a behind-the-scenes look at the impossibly short amount of time she was given to change costumes in between songs.
“I remember one time I was running from the ‘Evermore’ era. I trip over the hem of my dress, bust my knee, I skid the palm of my hand off, hobble into the quick change room. Blood’s coming down my hand, I’m changing into the ‘Reputation’ bodysuit, the skin that’s flapping off I just pull it off, more blood. They don’t have a Band-Aid back there," she says.
Still, Swift didn't let the painful mishap prevent her from heading back to the stage just in time for the next song to begin.
"(I) wasn't late for the intro of that song," she says.
The moment went unnoticed on stage, but eagle-eyed Swifties did notice it a few days later.
"They're like, 'Oh, her palm's gone.' I was like, 'I'm not acknowledging this. What? Nothing's wrong. It's always been like that,'" she says.
Swift acknowledged the injury in a 2023 Instagram post. “PS for those asking how I cut my hand, I’m totally fine and it was my fault completely — tripped on my dress hem and fell in the dark backstage while running to a quick change — braced my fall with my palm. It was all very Mercury in retrograde coded. Don’t worry about me I’m gooooood,” she wrote.
During the "Eras Tour," Swift did about 20 outfit changes during each concert, which lasted over three hours. On average, she had less than one minute and 15 seconds to complete the outfit change, but managed to change clothes in 39 seconds one time.
The singer's mother, Andrea Swift, appears in the episode and explains just how impressive it was to see the quick changes up close.
"Those quick changes are like nothing you've ever seen before. It is like watching a Nascar race," she says.
The pop star said she had safety at the top of her mind during the on-stage switch-ups.
"I don't want to fall in a hole and I don't want to have like pyro go off on my head. I legitimately celebrate like every moment that something doesn't go wrong. Everybody is firing on all cylinders," she says.
The 36-year-old also offered insight into what went into getting her from point A to point B during the shows.
“I’m going under the stage, I’m getting on a weird pulley system, I’m getting pulled over here. Meanwhile, I’m unzipping my (outfit), I’m running up stairs, I’m going into a different quick change room on a whole different floor, I’m ripping this off,” she says, calling it the “most complicated system.”
Through it all, the "Opalite" singer says one thing motivated her while she was racing around backstage.
"You have no idea the panic of worrying you're not going to be dressed in time for the song to start. And it is that panic that drives me to never be late," she says.
