Taylor Swift Says Feud with Kanye West and Kim Kardashian Felt Like 'Career Death': 'I Went Down Really, Really Hard'

[sarchasm]

The pop superstar opened up about the fallout from the 2016 phone call surrounding the track "Famous" in TIME's 2023 Person of the Year cover story

By Sadie Bell - (people.com)
Updated on December 6, 2023 07:15PM EST

Taylor Swift is reflecting on how the feud between her and Kanye West and Kim Kardashian affected her mentally.

The pop superstar, 33, is TIME’s 2023 Person of the Year and in the cover interview she spoke candidly about the 2016 incident in which the rapper, 46, dropped the song “Famous” featuring a vulgar lyric about her, which she denied approving, and his then-wife, 43, released an edited, recorded phone call between them that led fans to believe otherwise.

She explained to the outlet that the moment and the public’s reaction felt like “a career death” and “took [her] down psychologically to a place [she’d] never been before.”

“Make no mistake — my career was taken away from me,” the “Cruel Summer” singer said.

“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,” she recalled.

“That took me down psychologically to a place I’ve never been before,” the Grammy winner continued. “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.”

Even before the feud with West and Kardashian, the “Karma” musician described feeling like she was in a vulnerable place in her career after some began describing her as overexposed in the years following the release of 1989. She said, “I had all the hyenas climb on and take their shots.”

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[hlthe2b]

1. I feel even better about her current success, given the idiot Kanye's very deserved downturn.

I find him creepy as hell nowadays and feel for the woman he's "married" and found to be a seeming "willing" partner to his controlling attitudes, often grotesque stunts, and uncontained narcissism.

[LenaBaby61]

4. You forgot about that filthy family the Kartrashians ....

They're a moral culture vultures who steal black culture and make money off of it. They're greedy, talent less and that Mom is nothing but a pimp. The only one with any sense seems to be the one named Kourtney, and she really doesn't fool with them much anymore since she got married, and had her baby recently. She said that her own family is toxic, and she limits contact with them after she married and had a baby recently. And, look at bigoted, reich-winged tRump -supporting stooge Caitlyn Jenner. Always criticizing trans people, yet it's okay for her to have had surgery to leave Bruce Jenner behind, and to then become Caitlyn Jenner, trans person (and murderer), who criticizes other trans persons. They got their billions the easy way. Kim made her money on her back off of sex tapes, and most stole black culture. NONE of those black culture vulture thieves can carry Taylor Swift's fill in the blank __________________.

[hlthe2b]

5. Purposely. I've never given any of them the time of day and NEVER watched that crap.

The lot is meaningless to me. As would be Kanye if given the opportunity to ignore him.

[North Shore Chicago]

2. Kanye

is not fit to be on the same planet as Ms. Swift.

[debm55]

3. Didn't West have a scream fest at Taylor at some award show because he felt Taylor should not have won? He felt Beyonce

should have gotten the award.

[Phentex]

6. To hell with Kim and Kanye!

And put Scooter Braun in the handbasket with them!

It's fabulous to see Taylor thrive after their crap.

[milestogo]

7. He deserves Asshole of the Year award for 10 years.

And those stinkin Kardashians too.

[JoseBalow]

8. Obama called Kanye "a jackass"

'nuff said