Taylor Swift sexual assault trial: I felt like I wanted to vomit, says singer’s mum

Recording star Taylor Swift’s mother testified on Wednesday that she became sick to her stomach when she learned her daughter had been groped during a pre-concert photo shoot four years ago but decided against calling police to avoid publicity.

“I did not want this event to define her life,” Andrea Swift said in the second day of testimony in a federal court trial stemming from the Grammy-winning singer’s allegation that a Denver DJ fondled her bare buttocks at the picture-taking session.

Swift’s mother, who serves as part of her daughter’s management team, told jurors that one specific worry was the prospect that the photo taken with the radio personality in question, David Mueller, might end up going viral and even being doctored in a lewd way.

“I was very upset … I felt like I wanted to vomit,” Andrea Smith, 59, testified when asked to recall her reaction to her daughter telling her that she had been groped at a reception for her fans before a June 2013 concert in Denver.

“‘Mom, a guy just grabbed my ass at the meet-and-greet,'” she recounted her daughter telling her moments after the alleged incident.

Asked if she had sought out witnesses to the incident, the mother said …read more