In a recent TikTok, Maya Thompson revealed that she and Taylor Swift still keep in touch years after the singer wrote a song about her late son.

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Maya Thompson, the mother of the inspiration for Taylor Swift’s “Ronan”  revealed in a recent TikTok that she and the singer keep in touch.

“I’ll share some things—not everything because I’m protective of her,” Thompson went on to say how “kind” and “generous” the singer is.

“And twelve years later she’s still here,”

 

Swift, 34, originally wrote “Ronan” for the 2012 Stand Up to Cancer telethon. The song is named after Thompson’s son, who passed away at age 4 of cancer and wasn’t intended to be on any of the singer-songwriter’s albums. However, after rerecording her 2012 album “Red” Swift contacted Thompson and asked if she could include the song.

“I wrote Ronan while I was making Red and discovered your story as you so honestly and devastatingly told it,” Swift wrote in an email partially published on Thompson’s blog.

Thompson wrote in her blog, which is formatted as a series of letters to her late son, “Taylor has anchored you to this world so you will never be lost, and now she has ensured you will forever be safe in a new, permanent home,”

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The rerecording of “Red” and her other albums such as “Fearless” and “Speak Now” came about after Swift learned that the CEO of Swift’s previous record label Big Machine Records, sold her masters to Scooter Braun. Swift detailed in an open letter partially published on Maya’s blog the  “incessant, manipulative bullying” Braun subjected her to over the years.

“Now, Scooter has stripped me of my life’s work, that I wasn’t given an opportunity to buy,” The singer lamented.

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Published by HOLR Magazine.

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