Navigating the Taylor Swift and Kim Kardashian rift: Unveiling leaked phone conversations and biting remarks

Taylor Swift and Kim Kardashian have been feuding for nearly a decade, with the singer recently branding Kim ‘trash’ after she opened up about the impact the row had on her

It’s no secret that Taylor Swift and Kim Kardashian aren’t exactly best pals. The two celebs have been at odds for nearly ten years, with Taylor recently reigniting the drama by sharing how it affected her.

She claimed Kim “psychologically tore her down” and labelled the reality star and her ex-hubby Kanye West as “trash”. The row all started when Kim jumped to Kanye’s defence after he wrote vulgar lyrics about the singer.

However, the feud has remained strong and even managed to outlast Kim and Kanye’s marriage. Here, we’ve taken a look back at the drama which has gripped the showbiz world…

Kim and Taylor’s feud began as a result of Kanye’s tantrum at the 2009 Video Music Awards. Taylor had bagged the award for Best Female Video, but Kanye wasn’t pleased and famously stormed the stage to voice his opinion.

He argued that Beyonce should have won the award instead of Taylor. “Yo, Taylor, I’m really happy for you. Imma let you finish, but Beyonce had one of the best videos of all time,” he declared.

Taylor couldn’t finish her acceptance speech due to Kanye’s interruption. Thankfully, Beyonce later invited her onstage to speak while she accepted the Video Of The Year award.

Kanye made matters worse when he released his 2016 song Famous. The track features the lyrics: “I feel like me and Taylor Swift might still have sex. Why? I made that b***h famous.”

Taylor wasn’t happy with the track, but Kanye claimed to have had an hour-long phone call with her about the lyrics and said she had given her blessing. The Shake It Off hitmaker hit back, with her representative saying: “Kanye did not call for approval, but to ask Taylor to release his single Famous on her Twitter account.

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“She declined and cautioned him about releasing a song with such a strong misogynistic message. Taylor was never made aware of the actual lyric, ‘I made that b***h famous’.”

Kim, who was married to Kanye at the time, put a video online of Kanye talking to Taylor on the phone. During the chat, he appeared to ask permission to use the lyrics.

Taylor seemed to say: “I know, it’s like a compliment, kind of. Yeah, I mean, what’s dope about the line is it’s very tongue in cheek either way. And I really appreciate you telling me about it, that’s really nice.”

Taylor insisted Kim’s leaked call didn’t show what actually happened. In a statement shared on social media, she said: “That moment when Kanye West secretly records your phone call, then Kim posts it on the internet.

“Where is the video of Kanye telling me he was going to call me ‘that b****’ in his song? It doesn’t exist because it never happened. You don’t get to control someone’s emotional response to being called ‘that b****’ in front of the entire world.”

Taylor claimed that Kanye had promised to let her hear his song Famous, but she insisted he never did. She highlighted that she couldn’t approve a song she hadn’t heard.

She further stated: “Being falsely painted as a liar when I was never given the full story or played any part of the song is character assassination. I would very much like to be excluded from this narrative, one that I have never asked to be a part of, since 2009.”

Taylor took a year away from the spotlight following Kim’s leaked phone call. However, she returned with a bang and released Look What You Made Me Do. The video to her new song featured a subtle dig at her reality star nemesis.

When Famous was released, Kim had tweeted: “Wait it’s legit National Snake Day?!?!?They have holidays for everybody, I mean everything these days!” followed by a string of snake emojis.

Her fans quickly twigged and started leaving snake emojis on Taylor’s social media pages. However, Taylor decided not to let it get to her and used it as inspiration for her new video. In one clip, Taylor can be seen sitting on a throne surrounded by snakes, which was a dig at Kim.

Taylor felt relieved in 2020 when the unedited version of her and Kanye’s call was leaked. Kanye is heard telling Taylor he is writing a song about her and asking if she could support it on social media.

He said there was a “very controversial line at the beginning” but it wasn’t “mean”. The line was: “To all my Southside n****s that know me best, I feel like Taylor Swift might owe me sex.”

Taylor laughed and said it wasn’t mean, but she needed time to think. She said: “When you hear something for the first time you need to think about it, because it is absolutely crazy.”

During the phone call, there was no mention of the word “b***h*. After the full version of their chat was released, Taylor begged people to move on from the drama.

Kim was upset after the whole phone call came out, and posted on Instagram saying Taylor wasn’t being honest. Kim said: “The lie was never about the word b***h, it was always where there was a call or not.”

She denied editing the footage and said she only posted part of the call “to make my point”. Kim said the call had only been recorded as part of Kanye’s “musical journey”, adding: “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.”

She also said: “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’.

The pop star explained that the long-standing feud sent her down a distressing mental spiral to depths she had never experienced before. She confessed: “That took me down psychologically to a place I’ve never been before. I moved to a foreign country. I didn’t leave a rental house for a year.”

Carrying on, Taylor shared: “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.”

The singer then opened up about how she thought this feud marked the end of her career and it was “taken away” from her. In conclusion, she said: “I thought that moment of backlash was going to define me negatively for the rest of my life.”