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Taylor Swift Visits 10-Year-Old Cancer Patient Lauren Hacker Before World Tour

Truth rating: 10

2:42 pm, March 10th, 2013

(Twitter)

Taylor Swift, who’s always been good about granting cancer patients’ wishes — and even choked up during last year’s Stand Up To Cancer telethon — fulfilled another youngster’s dream on Saturday at Omaha’s Children’s Hospital & Medical Center.

The singing star learned of Lauren Hacker’s plight after her parents reached out to Swift and a YouTube video of her song “You Belong With Me” made  the rounds with changed lyrics about the 10-year-old girl and her battle with acute myelogenous leukemia.

A source close to Swift tells Gossip Cop visiting Hacker was “something Taylor really wanted to do.”

On Hacker’s family’s blog, Lauren’s dad posted: “Taylor Swift stopped by Lauren’s room at the hospital around 1 pm in the afternoon. She spent about an hour chatting with Lauren… [who] played a song on the electronic piano key board that she got for her birthday.”

According to Lauren’s father. “Taylor was very impressed,” and “shared stories from her childhood as she was getting her start as an entertainer and she told us all about the special stage designs of her new show.”

“Just before she had to leave,” adds the young girl’s dad, “Taylor got out a bag of goodies for Lauren and provided autographs on notebooks, photographs and guitar picks… It was a great afternoon for everyone and I’m sure Lauren will remember it for many years to come.”

Swift kicks off her “Red” world tour in Omaha on Wednesday.

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  • Seriously

    Nice Angelina move. PR trouble….run to charitable photo-op. That’s how Angie Jo got into charity in the first place. Her management team set up photos at an Orphanage in Cambodia. And boy has she managed to milk that for all its worth over the years. Swift could learn something here because no matter what happens PR wise, she can always go hide behind a cancer patient.

  • http://www.facebook.com/ivan.cardona.7503 Ivan Cardona

    Justin bieber has been doing this for years and the media rarely reports it-only the overblown scandals

  • love

    So nice of her. I wish the girl”years to come” , as he father stated.

  • hithere

    A lot of celebrities have been doing this for years. It is something that they do, it makes them feel good about themselves and is good PR.

  • Woof

    Nice one!….♥

  • Loreley

    I’ve always wondered if celebrities also help out with money when they visit cancer patients. I hope they do.. I can’t imagine that they wouldn’t but who knows. It’s nice of them, anyway, and I don’t get how anyone could judge this as a PR move. We’re all human and it is our nature to want to help, anyone in their shoes would do the same thing.

  • http://twitter.com/nirvanaman_1985 sam

    Such an obvious P.R stunt.

  • zach59

    Swift has always visited childrens’ hospitals and befriended many young cancer patients since she was a teenager. Social media has simply drawn attention to something she has always done privately, even when touring, under press radar. Her famous song Ronan, about a real 4-year-old boy who died of cancer, greatly increased public awareness to the need for increased funding for childhood cancer research. (Of course the proceeds went to childhood cancer research) I know she donates millions to various causes and charities,don’t know all what for.

  • RhapsodyinBlue

    Yeah but Taylor has been doing stuff like this with the family releasing photos for years, only since people got a hard on for bashing her are they saying it’s just for PR. She donated an insane amount of books to the very poor school district around here and it wasn’t a national story either I doubt she did it just to impress out small little town as a form of “micro marketing” considering the people in that school district are all dirt poor. But, people will bash anyways because, uh, you can’t imagine being friends with her… or…? So it goes

  • MissZee

    she’s been doing this for YEARS…lol PR trouble??

  • Seriously

    Get real. Charity is part of their brand. It’s great PR. If these people cared so much they would constantly be telling you where to go and what to do if you want to help. There would be easy to remember websites and phone numbers to call. Or they would use their money behind the scenes and start organizations like Oxfam or the Red Cross. No one cares who started those organizations because the focus remains on the cause those organizations promote, not on some celebrity.

    With Swift, Jolie and many others it’s just photos of THEM helping people. And then making sure EVERYONE finds out about it. It’s no coincidence that this photo appears just days after she was roundly criticized for her Tina Fey and Amy Poehler comments.

  • zach59

    Swift has been doing this since the beginning of her career, under the radar, no media attention or PR at all. With social media though, people start up campaigns for her to visit kids, and so she does.These are definitely not the only kids she visits, though, she has always gone to visit kids in hospitals, etc. So, Jon Stewart visits injured troops, Swift visits young cancer patients, every once in awhile, they both have photos show up in the press. Childhood cancer research is just one area Swift has been devoted to. Like Stewart, you just don’t read much about it in the press–they don’t just write out checks, they actually give their time and get personally involved with people. Pretty cool. I admire both of them for the things they do without press coverage.

  • Seriously

    You’re right. Except for the part about Taylor Swift doing this under the radar. That part is absolutely untrue. And please don’t tell me it’s an accident that this photo appears just days after her PR troubles.

  • RhapsodyinBlue

    You just repeated your mantra when I just cited an instance where she gave almost a million dollars worth of books to a poor, mostly Hispanic school district (not exactly her target audience) for no other reason than they were needy. She received no attention outside of the area for this, why would she donate so much for little return in terms of PR if it’s all for PR? At what point do you re-evaluate who is the bad person in this scenario?

  • Seriously

    Except that she DID receive attention. Lots of it!!! In fact when you do a search on google that specific donation gets more than 8 million hits.

  • RhapsodyinBlue

    Really? What district was it then?

  • Seriously

    Yes, your facts are not quite right. And btw, it’s not one specific district. It’s several. It says so in the millions of articles. LOL.

  • RhapsodyinBlue

    I was talking about one specific district, troll, you couldn’t come up with it because you never had it to begin with, Like I said, who is the evil person here, the person donating to charities and fulfilling wishes or the fat slob net troll perpetuating hate online? Get f-ed loser

  • Regina1180

    Even if it is a PR stunt, who really cares? If Lauren was able to forget about her cancer for even 5 minutes, that’s worth it.

  • Seriously

    No need to get so angry. The reality is this charity is a tax write off while she sells it as selflessness and makes it all public.

    The end.

  • RhapsodyinBlue

    Ah, so now moving the goal post when the PR stuff fails, huh? How much do you even know about the tax code in terms of charity? I’ll go ahead an answer it for you because you’re incapable of being honest=zero. Now go back to your life of trolling other sites and articles

  • zach59

    Taylor’s tour opens in Omaha in a few days, so of course she would visit Lauren. Taylor is devoted to her fans, with a special place in her heart for those who are ill. She gives freely not only of her money, but of her time. And I’d suggest to you that it’s better to have a loving heart, rather than a cynical heart such as you apparently have.

  • Seriously

    I actually know quite a bit about finance and no one moved any goal posts. The first 10% is a tax write off and the rest is hidden in trusts to avoid paying the usual percentile in taxes. Since you have never met me please don’t claim to know anything about me. You kind of blew up your entire argument by doing that. Enjoy the rest of your night troll.

  • Seriously

    A loving heart? You mean like saying Tina Fey and Amy Poehler were going to burn in hell for making a joke about her? Or all of the whiny little tunes she makes her money on trashing all her exes? Yeah, she seems like she has a loving heart. LOL

  • RhapsodyinBlue

    Still? What happened to the stupid PR angle you took for your first three posts? Feeling kinda dumb now, huh? But at least you’re claiming to be a tax expert now, totally reliable. You must be busy this time of year with all the filing of taxes, how do you squeeze in time to kill celebrities online obsessively without much of a reason?

  • Seriously

    Are you a professional moron? Most people who know about tax structures don’t actually help people with their tax returns. I have worked for a financial advisor who helped wealthy clients set up their finances. We didn’t actually do their tax returns for them. That’s what accountants are for.

    And I have been consistent about saying celebrities use a tax write off for PR purposes. I shouldn’t be surprised by your ridiculousness. Taylor Swift fans are what? 15? 20? No wonder you know nothing about taxes. Get back to me when you’re actually old enough to file a tax return. LOL. Have a nice night.

  • STOP

    you obviously didn’t read the article and the family realse that photo of her and the little girl, ALSO she said about amy and tina joke “I can laugh at myself”

  • brenda

    I don’t give a toss about Taylor Swift’s love life. I think she is a doll.

  • brenda

    I didnt know that Bieber is involved with charities, but I’m not surprised because I think he is a good kid at heart.

  • brenda

    Angie and Brad give millions to charity so I doubt that its PR.

  • brenda

    Who cares, as long as someone needy benefits. But I believe that Taylor is genuine.

  • brenda

    I’m a fan of Taylor Swift and I’m lot older than 20 and why paint everyone with the same brush.

  • brenda

    Wow! You hate this girl and for what reason I wonder….

  • Seriously

    You wonder why? Why not ask the millions of other people who can’t stand her? It’s not as if I’m alone here. She sells this princess routine with her lavender tea and fairytale themed decor while using all of her songs to trash EVERY man she has ever gone out with. And when the PR blows up in her face like it did last week with her Tina Fey comments she runs toward a sick cancer patient and has her picture taken. That’s gross on so many levels.

  • emma

    thx taylor swift 4 coming <3 you lolo

  • emmajean

    that is so nice of Taylor Swift miss u lauren hope to see u soon in class

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