“My wife got sick, and she passed away,” he then explained. “But Taylor was like a big sister and came over and took the girls, baking cookies, and just kind of hung out at the house. I can’t say enough good things about Taylor.”
And Jeff opened up some more during a recent interview with TMZ Sports, where he said that Taylor performed an impromptu and private three-hour-long concert for Jill and their daughters amid Jill’s fight with cancer.
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Jeff explained that a friend of Taylor’s suggested she stop by and visit his family, adding: “Obviously, like every little girl in America, my daughters were big Taylor fans, and her songs had just kind of broke, but she was a hometown girl.”
“She came over and didn’t bring her guitar in, but she actually ran back home that day because the girls wanted her to sing and play,” Jeff recalled, detailing that what started out as just seven people in Jeff’s home turned into 45 people once Taylor started performing.
“When my wife passed away, Taylor would come around and was really good with the girls,” he reiterated, noting that Taylor would take the girls back to her home to bake cookies.
And Tay remained close with the family as her career took off, with Jeff’s daughter Jaclyn even appearing in the music video for the star’s 2010 single “Mine.”
