How this SoCal cancer survivor's surprise hospital visit from Taylor Swift helped her #StayFearless

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00:00 One SoCal girls love for Taylor Swift

00:01 has been a nearly lifelong journey.

00:03 Thanks in part to an experience she

00:05 has had she was fighting for her life.

00:08 Eyewitness news reporter Christian

00:09 Cordero introduces us 14 year old

00:11 Chloe Carlson Torres spends her

00:12 time like most kids her age,

00:14 figuring out life before high school,

00:15 hanging out with friends and listening

00:17 to a lot of Taylor Swift. Any of

00:20 her music is kind of like kind

00:22 of like a teens life too,

00:23 especially Swift's sophomore album Fearless,

00:25 which she wrote as a teen and released

00:27 the year Chloe was born. It took on

00:30 a new meeting in 2013 when Chloe

00:32 was diagnosed with retinoblastoma.

00:33 She had a tumor in her eye.

00:36 Chloe spent her fifth birthday in and out

00:38 of chemo at Children's Hospital Los Angeles.

00:40 Through the months she grew skeptical

00:42 of doctors, fluorescent lighting,

00:44 and she was about to go through

00:46 her very first breakup.

00:47 You could argue a really good one.

00:49 The treatment worked and a familiar

00:51 face wanted to celebrate and I was

00:53 just like in shock for a little bit.

00:56 I was just standing there staring at her.

00:58 Chloe had listened to Taylor Swift before,

01:00 during and after each hospital visit,

01:02 but that day she actually got to talk to her.

01:05 Chloe, that's amazing.

01:06 That's so cool.

01:06 Do you know how strong you are?

01:09 Do you feel like it's made you stronger?

01:11 Yeah, now like when I'm like thinking like,

01:13 oh, I have to do this like I'm just like,

01:16 well, I've done like a bigger

01:18 challenge before like this doesn't

01:20 really matter that much. She's going

01:21 on eight years cancer free and through

01:23 the years has gained a fan base of her

01:26 own. I'm a pianist from Canada.

01:29 And this one is one that someone

01:31 made for me to the hashtag.

01:33 Stay fearless.

01:34 Chloe launched a community of people

01:36 who can relate to and support her

01:38 cancer journey. It led Swift to

01:39 the hospital room that day.

01:41 Let me see, let me see.

01:43 Of course you can answer.

01:47 Look at that muscle and as Swift

01:49 begins her six shows to close out

01:51 the last city on the US portion

01:52 of her tour, you can bet Chloe

01:54 has fans going through each era,

01:56 knowing every word so often music

01:58 can help us heal our inner child,

02:00 but maybe the real gift isn't in

02:03 staying this little rather getting

02:05 to grow up in Glendora.

02:07 Christiane Cordero, ABC 7 Eyewitness News.

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