Kim Kardashian’s Alleged Lie Put Taylor Swift In ‘A Place I've Never Been Before’
American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift bravely revisited a bad memory in her career as a musician caused by Kim Kardashian's alleged lie in 2016, which she felt was "a career death."
In an interview with Time magazine as 2023's Person of the Year, Taylor revisited her infamous controversy regarding Kanye West's song "Famous," which featured the lyrics, "I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex / Why? I made that b---h famous."
West wrote a song with inappropriate lyrics about her and claimed that she had consented to it, which she denied. After Taylor's denial and months after "Famous" was released, West's then-wife Kim leaked an alleged conversation between him and the "1989" singer, seemingly portraying that Taylor approved the lyrics.
Four years later, the entire phone conversation was released and showed that it had been edited down. Taylor's claims and denial were confirmed to be true.
Taylor Swift performs onstage during the Reputation Stadium Tour at NRG Stadium on September 29, 2018.
"Make no mistake -- my career was taken away from me," Taylor told Time before adding, "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."
Taylor admitted it was a tough season in her life, saying, "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," the 33-year-old singer revealed.
.@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 Kardashian (@KimKardashian) March 24, 2020
Meanwhile, when West and Taylor's original full conversation was released in 2020, Kim took to Twitter -- now known as X -- to share her thoughts and fire back at Taylor, only to receive more backlash from the netizens and Swifties -- Taylor's fans.
In one tweet, Kim said, "I never edited the footage (another lie) -- I only posted a few clips on Snapchat to make my point and the full video that recently leaked doesn't change the narrative."
