Kim Kardashian West has entered herself back into the long-running feud with Taylor Swift. Why tho?
WATCH: Taylor Swift and Kanye West leaked footage
In a series of posts on Monday, Kim responded to Taylor’s recent statement regarding the alleged release of never-before-seen footage from her and Kanye West’s infamous 2016 phone conversation.
According to Kim, Taylor is still lying about whether or not she ever approved the lyrics in Kanye’s song, Famous.
Kim wrote: Taylor 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. 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.
“To be clear, the only issue I ever had around the situation was that Taylor lied through her publicist who stated that ‘Kanye never called to ask for permission…” They clearly spoke so I let you all see that. Nobody ever denied the word ‘bitch’ was used without her permission.
“At the time when they spoke the song had not been fully written yet, but as everyone can see in the video, she manipulated the truth of their actual conversation in her statement when her team said she ‘declined and cautioned him about releasing a song with such a strong misogynistic message.”
In Kanye’s version of the phonecall, it appeared that Taylor was giving Kanye permission to call her a “bitch” and use the lyrics: “I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex, why? I made that bitch famous. God damn, I made that bitch famous.”
However, the entire phone call was leaked online last week and it shows that Taylor only approves of Kanye using the lyrics: “I feel like Taylor Swift might owe me sex.”
There was no mention of calling her a “bitch” or of using a naked wax figure of Taylor in his music video.
In 2016, Kim releasing a file on Snapchat that made the Shake It Off singer appear less than honest. And it sparked a furious rebuke by Taylor – who said it was grossly misleading and a misrepresentation of the truth.
Responding to Taylor’s negative response to a line about her in Kanye’s song Famous, Kim apparently wanted the world to believe that the young singer wasn’t really as blindsided by the lewd and crude lyric as she claimed, and in fact appeared to privately endorse the song before its release.
Audio that purports to represent a phone conversation between Kaye and Taylor includes the blonde singer reacting to some of the lyrics in a seemingly positive way.
At the time of the song’s release, Taylor’s rep stated she had never been contacted for approval and “cautioned him about releasing a song with such a strong misogynistic message.”
Later during her Grammy Awards speech, she seemed to hit out at Kanye’s suggestion in the song he made her famous, saying, “I want to say to all the young women out there—there are going to be people along the way who will to try to undercut your success or take credit for your accomplishments or your fame.”
Taylor has lashed back at the audio leak, saying it has “falsely painted me as a liar” and raged against what she calls “character assassination” – explaining that Kanye promised to play her the full song, and never did.
“Where is the video of Kanye telling me he was going to call me ‘that bitch’ in his song?” she asked – pointing out that no such video exists, because the conversation never happened.
On a episode of Keeping Up With The Kardashians, Kris Jenner told her daughter she should ring Taylor and settle their differences.
“Thank you or your lovely advice,” Kim told her mother, “but I’m not going to take it.”
