John Legend Reveals His Failure To Support Kanye West’s Presidential Bid Tanked Their Friendship

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John Legend and Kanye West go way back, when they met decades earlier in New York City while both starting out in the music business.

In recent years, however, their long friendship has become strained, and Legend opens up about what really took place between the two during an extensive interview with The New Yorker.

While Legend has confirmed that West’s support of Donald Trump came between them (he’s a lifelong Democrat who performed at Joe Biden’s inauguration), he explained that it’s more complicated than that. READ MORE: John Legend Opens Up About His Political Fallout With Kanye West: ‘It Became Too Much To Sustain Our Friendship’ “Yeah, what it got described as was, we stopped being friends because he supported Trump, which was a mischaracterization of what I said,” Legend said. “That was kind of the Rupert Murdoch version of the story — it was all over the New York Post and Fox News.

What I was saying was that he was very upset with me that I didn’t support him running for president, and that was the real impetus for us having a strain in our friendship.