The incident affected Taylor Swift psychologically.
Time magazine named US pop superstar Taylor Swift “Person of the Year,” calling the musical force of nature a “heroine of her own story.” The huge $92.8 million premiere of Taylor Swift’s film “The Eras Tour” earlier this year set the tone for the “Cruel Summer” singer’s 2023 year. Now, in an interview with the outlet, the singer explained that it felt like “a career.” Death” when Kim Kardashian leaked her phone call with rapper Kanye West.
In 2016, Kim Kardashian shared audio and video recordings of her then-husband with Taylor Swift chatting on demand, with the pop singer appearing to confirm the words the rapper wrote about her in his song. “I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex / I made that bastard famous,” Mr. West wrote in the song. A spokesman for Ms. Swift dismissed rumors that the singer ever approved of the song’s lyrics after its release. There was no indication in the video that West claimed he “made her famous” or that he would call Swift a “b****” when an unedited version of the conversation was released in 2020.
The 33-year-old singer added that it felt like it was “a career death” as it appeared she agreed to the lyrics. “Make no mistake – my career has been taken away from me. “They have a completely fabricated pretext, in an illegally recorded phone conversation that Kim Kardashian edited and then released, to tell everyone that I was a liar,” she told the outlet.
The incident affected her psychologically and she even moved to a new place to hide from all the attention. “It took me to a place mentally that I had never been before. I moved to a foreign country. I haven’t left a rental house for a year. I was afraid of being called. I pushed most people away in my life because I no longer trusted anyone. I went down really, really hard,” the “Lover” singer told Time magazine.
The “All Too Well” singer initially appeared to accuse the rapper and his then-wife of “editing and manipulating” parts of the phone conversation that surfaced in 2016, until March 2020 when the entire phone conversation between Ms Swift and Mr West emerged online. In one of her Instagram stories about donating to charities, the singer wrote: “Instead of answering those who ask me what I think about the leaked video footage, she proves that I was telling (you) the truth the whole time about *that call*.” You know, the song that was recorded illegally, that someone edited and manipulated to frame me and put me, my family and my fans through hell for four years)… Swipe up to to see what really matters.
In response, the SKIMS founder wrote on Twitter: “@taylorswift13 has decided to revive an old exchange – which feels very self-serving at this point given the suffering millions of real victims are currently facing.” She added that she didn’t edit the footage of the call. “Kanye documented the creation of all of his albums for his personal archive, but never released any of it for public consumption, and the phone call between the two would have remained private or would have ended up in the trash if she hadn’t lied and forced me to tell him to defend,” she continued at the time.