Eric Swarbrick pleaded guilty to interstate stalking and threatening the CEO of Swift’s former record label in 2019.
In 2018,Taylor Swiftfound herself at the center of one man’s disturbing and increasingly dangerous delusions.
He wrote 40 letters to Taylor Swift back in 2018.

Taylor Swift attends the ‘Eras Tour’ concert film premiere in 2023.
The first one is not threatening, just strange."
Entertainment Weeklyhas reached out to a rep for Swift for comment.
I didn’t see any signs at all in Eric.

Eric Swarbrick’s mugshot.Metro Police Department
There was nothing that was a red flag."
But then the Austin native started college.
Matthew explained that his brother “didn’t know a lot of people.

I feel like he started spending more time by himself.
Some of the isolation eventually got to him.”
They did not reference anybody in particular, but it was not something that a normal person would write.

It basically referenced being a prophet of God, being on the verge of becoming the Antichrist.
Then heclaimedto have wandered through the label’s Nashville office in the past.
Eventually, Eric’s rhetoric escalated to a level that warranted the intervention of law enforcement.

Taylor Swift performing in New York in 2019.Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty
Remember who I am,“one of the lettersread.
Another stated, “I want to rape Taylor Swift.
This is why I hate Taylor herself…

Taylor Swift performs in Sweden in 2024.Michael Campanella/TAS24/Getty
This is how I know I am Taylor’s soulmate.”
He was initially arrested in August 2018 after attempting to access Big Machine HQ, but was quickly released.
There are some people that need punishment and some people that need treatment.
I certainly wish he was taken to a mental health hospital earlier than they did.”
He describes Eric in his current state as “very playful and interactive” with Matthew’s children.
A Brooklyn man named Joshua Christian wascharged with criminal trespassingand stalking Swift in 2022.
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Two more men werearrested on suspicionofstalking Swiftlast year alone.