Julia Fox has mentioned she was “delusional” for considering that she might assist Kanye West throughout their temporary relationship.
The Uncut Gems actor, who was romantically concerned with West earlier this yr, lately took to TikTok to reply to a remark about her “dating a famously violent misogynist and antisemite”.
“First of all, the man was being normal around me,” Fox started within the almost-three-minute video (by way of Complex).
“And not solely that however the Kardashians, once I had a trend line 10 years in the past, they really purchased our garments and offered them of their shops. So I’ve at all times had, like, a love for Kim, particularly. And, like, even Kourtney particularly. All of them just about.
She continued: “But no, like, the big three: Khloé, Kim, Kourtney. So by the time me and him got together, he hadn’t been doing anything, you know, like ‘out there’ yet. The only thing he had done was change the name in the song and said ‘Come back to me, Kimberly’. That was, like, the only thing when we met.”
The latter remark was referring to Ye switching the lyrics to ‘Runaway’ on the Free Larry Hoover Benefit live-stream final yr.
Fox went on to recall some early textual content conversations with the rapper, including that he “kept going and going” and accused her of getting “bad text etiquette”.
“But then I had this thought,” Fox continued. “And I was like, ‘Oh my God – maybe I can get him off of Kim’s case. Like maybe I can distract him…’”
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The actor defined that West wasn’t on any type of social media all through their month collectively, saying that the connection was “really beautiful” up till he began utilizing Twitter once more. “The moment he started tweeting, I was out,” Fox mentioned.
Fox then instructed viewers that she and West had already stopped courting when the media began reporting on their romance. “I’d already been like, ‘Dude, I’m not gonna stick round for this shit’, she mentioned.
“And additionally, I realised fairly rapidly that he wasn’t gonna take my assist – I used to be like, ‘I wanna help him, I wanna help him’. I sounded virtually as dumb as you guys saying that I ought to have completed one thing to cease him.
“But anyway, I was delusional. I thought I could help him. Anyway, it didn’t work… and now we’re here.”
Despite this, Fox mentioned that she nonetheless “deeply respect[s]” West “as an artist”.
“I don’t wanna shit on that,” she defined. “I don’t wanna reduce his whole career to his really bad moments, you know. But that being said, I stand with the Jewish community. Period.”
In a follow-up video, Fox mentioned there have been “a lot of really good things” about Ye regardless of the “really, really messed up” issues he has mentioned and completed of late.
The ‘DONDA’ artist has confronted important backlash over the previous month or so after making a sequence of antisemitic feedback, sporting a “White Lives Matter” T-shirt, and expressing false claims concerning the demise of George Floyd.
Elsewhere, it was alleged that Ye had praised “Hitler and the Nazis” throughout a 2018 interview with TMZ (the dialog in query is alleged to have been edited previous to its launch).
Kanye West returned to Twitter final Sunday (November 20) after having his account locked final month following a sequence of antisemitic posts on the platform.