Kim Kardashian spoke publicly about Taylor Swift for the primary time in years throughout a current podcast look, providing a uncommon acknowledgment of the pop star’s music whereas additionally revisiting probably the most notorious movie star disputes of the previous decade.
On the Jan. 21 episode of Khloé in Wonderland, Khloe Kardashian requested her sister, “Do you assume individuals can be shocked you take heed to Taylor Swift?” Kim, 44, merely replied, “I feel I’ve mentioned it.”
She added, “I’ve a few of her older songs in my playlist. I’ve all the time thought she’s like a brilliant proficient, nice artist.”
The dialogue comes amid a long-standing feud stemming from Kanye West’s 2016 track Well-known, which included the controversial line: “I really feel like me and Taylor would possibly nonetheless have s*x / Why? I made that b***h well-known.”
Kim has beforehand shared edited parts of a cellphone name between West and Swift concerning this track, earlier than the total video of the dialog was launched 4 years later.
In March 2020, Kardashian addressed the controversy on X writing: “@taylorswift13 has chosen to reignite an outdated change that at this cut-off date feels very self-serving given the struggling thousands and thousands of actual victims are dealing with proper now. I didn’t really feel the necessity to remark a number of days in the past, and I’m really actually embarrassed and mortified to be doing it proper now, however as a result of she continues to talk on it, I really feel I’m left with out a selection however to reply as a result of she is definitely mendacity.”
She continued, “To be clear, the one challenge I ever had across the state of affairs was that Taylor lied via her publicist who said that ‘Kanye by no means known as to ask for permission…’ They clearly spoke so I allow you to all see that. No one ever denied the phrase ‘bitch’ was used with out her permission.”
Swift has addressed the controversy in interviews and thru her music. In a December 2023 interview with TIME, she mentioned: “You might have a completely manufactured body job, in an illegally recorded cellphone name, which Kim Kardashian edited after which put out to say to everybody that I used to be a liar. That took me down psychologically to a spot I’ve by no means been earlier than.”
She continued: “I moved to a international nation. I didn’t go away a rental home for a yr. I used to be afraid to get on cellphone calls. I pushed away most individuals in my life as a result of I didn’t belief anybody anymore. I went down actually, actually arduous.”
