Breaking News: Sarah Paulson Says Experiencing Taylor Swift’s Eras Concert Was ‘Like Being in the Room with God Herself’ (Exclusive

The Emmy winner, 48, attended one of Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour concerts at Los Angeles’ SoFi Stadium in August with actress Lupita Nyong’o and friends, and she tells PEOPLE that, not only did she have a blast, it was one of the few times recently when she was absolutely “starstruck.”

“The last time I was starstruck — this is how powerful she is — was [when] I went to a Taylor Swift concert and I didn’t even meet her,” Paulson says. “For me, it was like being in the room with God herself.”

Although the actress admits she and her concert buddy Nyong’o, 40, didn’t go into the show as “full-blown Swifties,” after being within close proximity to the pop superstar, 33, they became entranced by “the power of Taylor Swift.”

The Golden Globe winner, who is returning to Broadway with the new play Appropriate, explains that her “wildest dreams” came true as soon as she arrived in the stadium full of 80,000 passionate fans and made it to her seat. She says, “We got to be on the floor, and someone from her team came out and handed Lupita and me a bag of merchandise. They said to me, “This is from Taylor.” I was like, ‘I think I’m going to faint

actually have the bracelet that was attached to the merchandise, just simply because it said ‘Fearless’ on it ’cause that’s the section we were in,” she continues. “I just was like, ‘This is the coolest thing that’s ever happened to me.’”

“I didn’t take my bracelets off for two months. It was a real situation,” the American Horror Story star adds.