Kim Kardashian speaks out
Kim Kardashian has addressed the leaked phone call footage between Taylor Swift and Kanye West.
Her husband and Taylor have been arguing for years over what exactly was said during this particular phone call.
And the footage released over the weekend seemed to reveal Taylor had been telling the truth the whole time.
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Kim's response came shortly after Taylor commented on her own Instagram Story.
Taylor wrote that the footage proved, 'that I was telling the truth the whole time about *that call*...'
She went on, '(you know, the one that was illegally recorded that somebody edited, and manipulated in order to frame me and put me, my family, and fans through hell for 4 years)...'
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Taylor moved on from the topic and encouraged her followers to donate to organisations in need during the coronavirus pandemic.
'The World Health Organization and Feeding America are some of the organizations I've been donating to.'
'If you have the ability to, please join me in donating during this crisis.'
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Kim's response
Shortly after this, Kim took to Instagram Stories branding Taylor a liar.
She kicked off her statement by saying, '@taylorswift 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.'
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Kim continued in another post, '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 "bi**h" was used without her permission.'
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Kim went on to say Taylor, 'manipulated the truth of their actual conversation,' through her publicist.
At the time Taylor's publicist released a statement that read, 'Kanye did not call for approval, but to ask Taylor to release his single Famous on her Twitter account.'
'She declined and cautioned him about releasing a song with such a strong misogynistic message.'
The statement finished, 'Taylor was never made aware of the actual lyric, ‘I made that bi**h famous.’'
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Kim said, 'The lie was never about the word bi**h, It was always whether there was a call or not and the tone of the conversation.'
'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.'
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Kanye's recording
Kim went on to defend her husband's decision to record his phone conversation with Taylor.
She said, 'Kanye as an artist has every right to document his musical journey and process, just like she recently did through her documentary.'
'Kanye has documented the making of all of his albums for his personal archive, however has never released any of it for public consumption and the call between the two of them would have remained private or would have gone in the trash had she not lied and forced me to defend him.'
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Kim wrapped up her response, 'This will be the last time I speak on this because honestly, nobody cares.'
'Sorry to bore you all with this. I know you are all dealing with more serious and important matters.'
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For the full story behind the phone call drama, go here.
