There’s purpose Taylor Swift referred to as out Kim Kardashian in TIME over a now 7-year-old telephone name with Kanye West — it is an incident for which Kim nonetheless has not apologized … TMZ has discovered.
Sources with direct information inform us Kim has by no means stated sorry to Taylor over the infamous “Famous” telephone name between Taylor and Kanye in 2016 … the one Kim and Ye launched, trying to indicate Taylor was cool with the tune’s racy line about her.
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Remember, on the time of the monitor’s launch, Taylor expressed outrage over Ye’s lyric … “I really feel like me and Taylor may nonetheless have intercourse // Why? I made that bitch well-known.” In response to Taylor’s anger, Kim posted her model of the recorded telephone name in an effort to show Taylor understood precisely what the tune would come with.
However, the total unedited model of the recorded name finally got here out, and it turned clear Kanye had not revealed he’d check with Taylor as a “bitch.”
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Our sources say Kim’s by no means apologized to Taylor for the decision — and even after the Time article, it is nonetheless crickets.
Interestingly, we’re advised Taylor would really settle for an apology from Kim on this problem, even all these years later, however solely beneath one particular situation … it must be achieved publicly.
As one supply put it to us, a public shaming requires a public “I’m sorry.”
Our sources say Taylor nonetheless looks like Kim and Kanye had been within the flawed … and she or he was dumbfounded when Kim doubled down on her place even after the total, unedited model of their name bought printed.
From Kim’s POV — which she made clear in tweets on the time, and in subsequent interviews — the very fact Taylor was looped in on the tune, interval, vindicated her and Kanye … however we’re advised Taylor’s place has all the time been about the usage of the phrase “bitch.”
Kim downplayed that in a GQ piece … saying all rappers use that time period, and that it was NBD — and whereas this may sound like quite a lot of hair-splitting … we’re advised Taylor nonetheless feels she was severely wronged within the framing of all that, one thing she touched on in her TIME interview.
Again, we’re advised Taylor continues to be keen to bury the hatchet with Kim — who has since divorced Kanye — however at this level, our sources say the two ladies don’t have any relationship.
Even extra context to all that is, in fact, Kanye’s notorious tirade interrupting Taylor’s 2009 VMAs acceptance speech — an outdated feud that bought relitigated with the telephone name saga in 2016 … and is now being reopened but once more in 2023.
Based on her present emotions about the entire mess, it is clear TS feels she deserves an apology — however, fortunately, she would not appear to be holding her breath for it.