Singing and dancing in a VIP box at Taylor Swift’s London concert, Australian schoolgirl Laila Johnson had stitches in her face from a harrowing attack a day earlier.

The 11-year-old had been on the trip of a lifetime to the Paris Olympics, followed by London to see Swift perform when she was grabbed and stabbed eight times in Leicester Square.

Speaking for the first time, Laila said that despite having surgery for wounds to her face, neck, shoulder and wrist, this Swiftie had one thing on her mind.

“I had to get to the Taylor Swift concert,” she told The Daily Telegraph on Wednesday.

After only one night in hospital, she was discharged and escorted by two Metropolitan Police officers to see the show at Wembley Stadium.

“It was amazing,” Laila said from her home in Candelo in NSW’s Bega Valley.

Australian consular officials helped ensure the unstoppable youngster was able to tick off that bucket list item.

“Some people organised for us to go in a VIP box and there was food being served and a private toilet, which was very exciting,” she told the Telegraph and the Seven Network.

Laila was determined to get to Taylor Swift’s concert at Wembley Stadium. Photo: 7NEWS

By her side throughout the extravaganza were two police officers, Chris and Kylie, who had come to Laila’s rescue.

“I’ve met many lovely people especially in the hospital and the police that have been looking after me,” she said.

“Some of them bonded with me really fast and I felt safe.

“They drove me everywhere and, like, they’ve just been so lovely.”

Laila and mum Samantha were sightseeing in London’s Leicester Square on Monday, August 12, when she was allegedly stabbed by a homeless man as she walked out of a store.

The attacker is accused of grabbing her in a headlock and knifing the screaming girl eight times in the face and neck as her mother tried to shield her by throwing herself over her body.

“We just came out of the Lego store and she was jumped on and, yeah, did not see it coming and suspect anything, obviously,” her mother Samantha told Seven.

“Did not see it coming, did not suspect anything.”

Laila and her mother had been on a dream holiday together watching the Matildas play USA at the Paris Games.

From there they headed to London, where Laila had tickets for Swift’s Eras concert at Wembley Stadium, having missed out on Sydney.

A Romanian citizen of no fixed address, Ioan Pintaru, 32, was charged with attempted murder and faced Westminster Magistrates Court last Tuesday.

He was also charged with possessing a bladed article in a public place.

Since arriving back to the family’s home in rural NSW, Johnson has not wasted any time stressing about her frightening ordeal.

Instead, she threw herself into the school’s performance of Alice in Wonderland, in which she played the lead role on Monday night.

“I saw all my friends on Monday – we had a performance and I couldn’t possibly let anything else do that for me,” she told the Telegraph.

“I was a bit of a control freak, so I had to be there.”

The youngster also remains in close contact with the security guard who has been hailed a hero for pinning down the knifeman.

“I saw he was stabbing the kid. I just put him down on the floor and hold him and kicked the knife away from him,” Abdullah, 29, told Channel Seven’s Sunrise after the attack.

“A couple more people joined as well and we hold him until the police came. It took maybe three to four minutes for police to arrive.”