RMBI/AKM-GSIShould Kasey Andrew ever have to deal with heartbreak again, she has some wise words from a very famous friend to fall back on.
The young Taylor Swift fan recently had to nurse a broken heart after ending things with her boyfriend, but what she got out of that breakup was pretty amazing—Andrew actually got some healing words from her favorite singer!
And now she's dishing the exclusive details to E! News on how it all went down and how she plans to cherish the sweet words T.Swift offered her on Tumblr.
"I have a chalkboard in my room, so I wrote, 'It's so devastating to come to terms with speaking of someone in past tense when you used to see them as your present and your future,'" she begins to tell us. "Taylor understands that it's devastating, now it's on my chalkboard as a reminder. It's okay to be hurt."
But that's not all...
Andrew continued to share some of the advice Swift told her, which included, "'Don't give him the chance, you fell in love. I'm so sorry this happened. Protect yourself please...' I was like, oh my gosh she's like a big sister!"
In fact, "protect yourself please" stuck with Kasey so much that her father is planning to get it engraved on her new iPad. "[My ex-boyfriend] smashed my iPad, so my dad is getting 'Protect Yourself Please-T.S.' engraved on the back of my new one. I have this new thing, it's beautiful, and I'm able to start fresh," she says.
Andrew's amazing friendship with the pop star began during one of Taylor's 1989 secret sessions.
"I was invited to the Secret Sessions, that was the coolest experience of my entire life," she explains, and added that during her one-on-one time with the singer, Taylor said, "Hey, I'm going to be checking up on you."
Kasey tells us that, at the time, she thought, "You're Taylor Swift. You're not going to check up on me." But Taylor did. The next week she commented on one of her Instagrams, began liking her pictures, and even started following Kasey on Tumblr.
"The first post I wrote, the one she responded to, I didn't tag her in it. I just said, 'Taylor I don't know what to do, I'm absolutely heartbroken.' I was so shocked when she replied."
Taylor asked Kasey a question, so Kasey called her friend, asking "Do I reply to her? She asked me a question. Oh my gosh, she's asking me questions…I had explained we had been in a four-month relationship."
That's when Swift began giving her some comforting words. And since Taylor, of all people, knows that where words fail, music speaks, the award-winning star also offered her gal-pal a playlist to listen to.
"It's an amazing playlist," Kasey tells us. "Obviously, I listen to Taylor's songs, but the fact that she gave me these other people, too; she's introduced me to amazing bands. I can't even explain how amazing it is!"
"I just want to say thank you, what she did for me, it was able to get me to go to bed that night, to get through the day. Heartbreak is hard enough. I'm so unbelievably thankful she took the time to comfort me at 2 a.m," Andrew adds.
"She has a huge heart...I know so many of her fans who have gone through heartbreak. It's okay to be hurt, it's OK to be devastated, but you're going to be OK. I can't believe she took the time, and to have a big sister like Taylor is amazing."