What Did Taylor Swift Say About Kim Kardashian? Behind The Kanye Phone Call
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If you’re wondering why the Skims founders’s Instagram comments are flooded with snake emojis, what Taylor Swift said about Kim Kardashian might be the answer.
The feud between the “all too well” singer and The Kardashians star was reportedly instigated after Kim released a snippet of a conversation on Snapchat in 2016 between Taylor and her then-husband Kanye West where he shared a line of his song “Famous” to the referred to “Bad Blood” musician.“ To all my Southside N—s that know me best, I feel like Taylor Swift might owe me sex,” to which Taylor replied, “That’s not mean!” However, Taylor was unaware of the line “I made that b**ch famous” according to her reps. Taylor and Kanye have been in a feud since 2009 when he bombarded her on stage at the MTV Video Music Awards to tell her that Beyoncé deserved her VMA more.
Kim spoke about the feud on social media in 2020. “@taylorswift13 has chosen to reignite an old exchange – that at this point in time feels very self-serving given the suffering millions of real victims are facing right now,” Kim tweeted. “I didn’t feel the need to comment a few days ago, and I’m actually really embarrassed and mortified to be doing it right now, but because she continues to speak on it, I feel I’m left without a choice but to respond because she is actually lying.” Kim later filed for divorce against Kanye in 2021.
With the release of Taylor’s Time 2023 Person Of The Year profile, many Swifties took to social media to comment about the situation and looking for her to apologize to Taylor. Here’s what Taylor Swift said about Kim Kardashian in the article.
What did Taylor Swift say about Kim Kardashian?
In her Time Person of the Year profile, Taylor Swift called the moment “a career death” and “took [her] down psychologically to a place [she’d] never been before.”
“Make no mistake — my career was taken away from me,” the “Cruel Summer” singer said.
“You have a fully manufactured frame job, in an illegally recorded phone call, which Kim Kardashian edited and then put out to say to everyone that I was a liar,” she continued. “That took me down psychologically to a place I’ve never been before. I moved to a foreign country. I didn’t leave a rental house for a year. I was afraid to get on phone calls. I pushed away most people in my life because I didn’t trust anyone anymore. I went down really, really hard.”
“I’m very careful to be grateful every second that I get to be doing this at this level, because I’ve had it taken away from me before,” she shared. “There is one thing I’ve learned: My response to anything that happens, good or bad, is to keep making things. Keep making art.”
“But I’ve also learned there’s no point in actively trying to quote unquote defeat your enemies,” she revealed. “Trash takes itself out every single time.” She responded to the backlash of being called a snake by putting lots of snake references and imagery in her next album Reputation. And now Swifties do think it’s better than revenge.
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