Gracie Abrams Reveals What It Was Really Like Backstage on Final Night of Eras Tour: ‘Everyone Had Been Crying All Day’

Gracie Abrams shares behind-the-scenes memories of the final night of Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour.

The 25-year-old artist, who opened 49 shows on the Eras Tour including the final stop in Vancouver on Sunday, December 8, described the final concert as incredibly emotional.

“Everyone was crying all day. It felt like the last day of school backstage,” Abrams said in an interview with Nylon published on Tuesday, December 17. “Everybody was walking around with theirs [Eras Tour] books, signing each other’s books. We were all walking around with Sharpies.”

Taylor Swift and Gracie Abrams perform on stage during the “Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour” at Wembley Stadium on June 23, 2024.

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For Abrams, traveling the world with the 14-time Grammy winner, 35, meant that the pair of pop stars – as well as the crew – grew closer.

“I feel emotional and grateful and in a state of shock that we, as a global community, can no longer experience that source of light,” Abrams continued, speaking of the end of an era.

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Abrams also expressed his gratitude for learning from one of the best in the business.

“And I was just soaking up every moment of her show. Basically, I study it for a year and a half. Every time I opened it to her, I watched and learned. I learned from her every time we talked, even about the weather,” she told the magazine about the experience.

“I was watching live streams of shows I wasn’t at,” he said Good Riddance added the singer.

Gracie Abrams at the 66th GRAMMY Awards at the Crypto.com Arena on February 4, 2024.

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A singer, who is a daughter Star Trek and Star Wars director JJ Abrams and executive producer Katie McGrath added that her career has reached new heights since touring with Swift, from the start of the tour fresh off her debut album, “Good Riddance” to last October when she rejoined the tour with the release of single “That’s So True”.

“It’s funny to see what one song can do for engagement. In your head you’re like, ‘Of course.’ But it’s crazy when you see it week in and week out in the stadium,” Abrams said. “It was really wild. It was really wild. It felt different, for sure. There’s something really psychotic about hearing the voices in the stadium p—ing back at you. It’s like, ‘What the fuck?'”

Towards the end of the Eras tour, Swift brought out her opening act so the ladies could perform a surprise medley of Swift’s song in 1989 the song “Out of the Woods” and their collaboration “Us” from Abrams The secret of us album at the Rogers Center in Toronto on November 16.

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In September, Gracie spoke exclusively to Who What Wear, where she revealed what it was like debuting “Us” with the pop star at London’s Wembley Stadium in June.

“To see someone have the ability to, in a stadium, make you feel like you and her are the only people there, that was extremely important for me to see,” she told the edition of the performance with the “Cruel Summer” star.

Abrams will take all she learned on the North American leg of her own tour, which will begin in July 2025.

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