Taylor Swift Tells All on ‘Getting Canceled’ Over Kanye-Kim Backlash, Crazy Eras Tour Training and Showing Up for Travis Kelce’s Games: ‘We’re Proud of Each Other’

Taylor Swift has had a massive year, and now the pop star is opening up about her road to success — and all the bumps along the way.

In a rare interview with Time as she’s crowned the publication’s Person of the Year, Swift celebrated what she feels is the “breakthrough moment” of her career after her record-shattering Eras Tour and highly successful concert film.

I’ve been raised up and down the flagpole of public opinion so many times in the last 20 years,” Swift told Time. “I’ve been given a tiara, then had it taken away. It feels like the breakthrough moment of my career, happening at 33. And for the first time in my life, I was mentally tough enough to take what comes with that.”

However, Swift said it took reaching her lowest point to truly appreciate this high. “It’s not lost on me that the two great catalysts for this happening were two horrendous things that happened to me,” she said. “The first was getting canceled within an inch of my life and sanity. The second was having my life’s work taken away from me by someone who hates me.”