Taylor Swift says Kim Kardashian feud “took me down psychologically to a place I’ve never been before”

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Taylor Swift has said that her past feud with Kim Kardashian impacted the singer “psychologically”, leaving her in “a place [she’d] never been before”.The ‘Midnights’ pop star opened up about her dispute with Kardashian and Kanye West during a new interview with TIME magazine, which has named Swift as its 2023 Person Of The Year.Swift claimed in 2020 that she was “framed” by West after the phone call she had with the rapper to discuss his 2016 track ‘Famous’ leaked online.

The song in question features the line: “I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex/ Why? I made that bitch famous.”The highly-publicised feud damaged Swift’s reputation, and would go on to inspire the title and themes of her 2017 sixth album. “My career was taken away from me,” she recalled during her conversation with TIME, explaining that it felt like “a career death”.“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.

That took me down psychologically to a place I’ve never been before.”Swift 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.”The singer went on to recall how ‘Reputation’ – which featured snake imagery – was met with uproar and skepticism. “I thought that moment of backlash was going to define me negatively for the rest of my life,” she said..@samlansky has such a wondrous way with words, and I’ve loved reading his pieces for over a decade.