The mother of a 2-year-old girl fighting cancer says singer-songwriter Taylor Swift\u2019s unexpected $100,000 donation has brought both financial relief and an outpouring of additional support to her family.<\/p>\n
Katelynn Smoot told TMZ<\/a> that Swift quietly donated the substantial sum to a GoFundMe<\/a> campaign set up for her daughter Lilah, who is battling a rare and aggressive form of brain cancer.<\/p>\n \u201cWe had had no communication with Taylor Swift or her team before or after,\u201d Smoot said. \u201cIt was like a very silent, \u2018Let me just drop this here\u2019 \u2014 and bless our lives!\u201d<\/p>\n The family discovered the donation by chance when Smoot\u2019s husband refreshed the fundraising page.<\/p>\n \u201cThe donation, we just stumbled upon it because my husband decided to refresh the GoFundMe<\/a> page and just saw it. I don\u2019t even know – it\u2019s just such a shock,” Smoot said.<\/p>\n Swift\u2019s donation prompted Smoot to publicly thank her.<\/p>\n \u201cI posted a video thanking her because I felt like I had to say something about it. It\u2019s just such a large sum. I couldn\u2019t just let it sit there,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n Smoot said Swift\u2019s donation triggered an avalanche of additional support from the singer\u2019s fanbase, with more contributions flooding the GoFundMe<\/a> campaign after she posted her thank-you message.<\/p>\n The total amount raised for Lilah\u2019s medical expenses now sits at just over $329,200, as of this writing.<\/p>\n If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The mother of a 2-year-old girl fighting cancer says singer-songwriter Taylor Swift\u2019s unexpected $100,000 donation has brought both…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11556,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[6051,9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-11555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-color","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}