Taylor Swift, who was recently named Person_of_the_Year_by_Time, in an interview with the publication_criticized Kim Kardashian for “destroying_her_psychologically” and forcing her to hide from people during a long-standing public conflict with her husband Kanye West.
In 2016, Kanye West wrote the song Famous, which contained offensive lines about Swift: he sang that he could still sleep with Taylor, because he was the one who made her popular, making reference to their previous conflicts. After this, his wife Kim Kardashian published a conversation with Taylor Swift on social networks, from which it followed that the singer herself agreed to mention West in the song. According to Swift, Kim intentionally edited the conversation.
“She had a completely fabricated piece of an illegally_recorded_phone call that she edited and released to tell_everyone that I had lied,” Taylor said. After Kim_published_a_recording of the conversation, Taylor was hounded on social networks and forced to leave the media space.
“It psychologically destroyed me, forced me to move to a new place. I went to another country and did not leave my rented house for a whole year. I was afraid to answer the phone.” Indeed, at that time, Taylor Swift had practically disappeared from the public eye. There were rumors that she rented a house in London to spend more time with actor Joe Alwyn, whom she then began_dating.
According to Taylor, she took it very hard. „I pushed_away_most of the people in my life because I didn’t trust_anyone_anymore. It was a very, very hard blow.“ She added that it was like she would never be able to resuscitate her career. „Make_no_mistake – my career was taken_away_from_me. I thought_this_backlash would_affect_the_rest of my life.“
However, the singer said that she had drawn conclusions from this story. „One thing I’ve learned is that my reaction to everything_that_happens, good or bad, is to keep creating. Keep making art. And the trash gets thrown out on its own every time.“
At the time, the singer released a song called Look What You Made Me Do from her album Reputation, which hinted at this story, and the video_begins with an image of a tombstone with the words „Taylor_Swift’s_Career.“ The song was considered a response to Kanye West.
The conflict between Taylor Swift and Kanye West began in_2009_at the MTV_Video_Music_Awards, where Taylor won the award for best_music_video. When Taylor was making her speech, Kanye_West_came_on_stage, took the microphone from the singer and declared that Beyoncé should have won the nomination. Taylor Swift looked discouraged and upset and did not finish her speech after that. Because of this outburst, Kanye faced a sharply negative reaction from many colleagues.
Kanye soon issued a public apology to Taylor. And later, according to the singer, he called her and asked her to present him with the_Vanguard_Award_at_the_2015 Video_Music_Awards, in which he was previously declared the winner, saying that it was important to him. Taylor Swift agreed and wrote a speech, but at the event itself, Kanye said from the stage that MTV ordered Taylor to present him with the award for the sake of ratings. Swift recalled that she stood then in an embrace with his wife, and “a chill ran down her spine.”
In 2018, Kanye West stated that because of these conflicts with Taylor Swift, he lost many contracts, in addition, allegedly because of her, his psychological problems worsened. It is worth noting that since then, things have been much worse for Kanye West than for Taylor. He scandalously divorced Kim Kardashian, publicly discussed her new novels, lost contracts_due_to_anti-Semitic_statements, and this summer faced a wave of negativity due to joint provocative acts with his new wife Bianca Censori.
