Man, 58, tells police he needs a gun ‘to protect his girlfriend Taylor Swift’

SHE’S had more than her fair share of obsessed fans – and now Taylor Swift is reportedly at the centre of claims made by a 58-year-old man, who says he’s her boyfriend and that he needs a gun to protect her.

New Hampshire law enforcement sources told the TMZ website the man was at the station for voluntary questioning on an unrelated case when he bragged that he was the singer’s significant other. The police say he even showed them texts with a ‘Taylor Swift’ as the recipient.

They got suspicious when he asked how many states he could drive through with a concealed carry weapons permit.

He also reportedly told them he wanted a gun to protect the 28-yearold pop star, pictured, in Africa. It was unclear last night why he thought she will be there.

However, she is due to start her tour in support of her new album, Reputation, on May 28 in Los Angeles – and it will take in Ireland, the UK, Canada and Australia before wrapping on November 9 in New Zealand.

Police didn’t detain the man, explaining to TMZ that simply saying you want a gun to protect someone is not a crime.

However, the source told the website that police have tried to contact Ms Swift’s team to warn her.

It’s not the first time the Look What You Made Me Do singer has had to deal with an obsessed fan.

Mohammed Jaffar, 29, was committed to a psychiatric facility last September by the Manhattan Supreme Court after he broke into the singer’s New York apartment building in February last year and called her management 60 times in a two-week period. About a week later, he came back on two consecutive days to ring her doorbell, and continued to violate orders to stay away from Ms Swift until his March 6 arrest.

Meanwhile, the songstress is riding high after releasing End Game, a track that features Ed Sheeran.