Kim Kardashian Never Apologized to Taylor Swift Over Edited Kanye Call, TMZ Sources Say

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It looks like there's still bad blood between Taylor Swift and Kim Kardashian.

It's been seven years since their tumultuous feud began in 2016 with the release of Kanye West's song “Famous,” featuring the lyrics “I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex / Why? I made that bitch famous.” After Swift denounced the lyrics in her 2016 Grammys speech, Kardashian defended her then husband by releasing clips of a phone call between Swift and Ye that made it seem like Swift had given the song her blessing. This caused a significant amount of backlash against Swift until 2020, when the full leaked call proved Swift never heard the lyric calling her a bitch.

“Make no mistake—my career was taken away from me,” Swift recently told Time magazine of the ordeal in her 2023 Person of the Year interview. “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. 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.”

Swift's quote renewed backlash against Kardashian, whose Instagram comments are currently being flooded with snake emoji, Reputation quotes, and Swift-related GIFs. The snakes, of course, represent the feud's origins. Back in July 2016, Swift's own social media posts were overrun with the snake emoji after Kardashian tweeted, “Wait its National Snake Day?!?!? They have holidays for everybody, I mean everything these days.”

The Reputation album, largely believed to be inspired by Kardashian and West (as well as persona non grata Scooter Braun), was released in November 2017. In her recent interview, Swift promised the rerecording will be “fire.”

All this to say, the resurrected discourse left many wondering if Kardashian ever just “called Taylor up,” as Kris Jenner once famously suggested. According to TMZ, the answer is no. “Our sources say Kim's never apologized to Taylor for the call,” the publication reports. “And even after the Time article, it's still crickets.”

Furthermore, TMZ's sources suggests that Swift would happily accept the apology on one condition. “It would have to be done publicly,” the article goes on. “As one source put it to us, a public shaming calls for a public ‘I'm sorry.’”

Personally, I can't imagine Swift is waiting by the phone. “I’m very careful to be grateful every second that I get to be doing this at this level, because I’ve had it taken away from me before,” Swift told Time of rebuilding her own career and reputation. “There is one thing I’ve learned: My response to anything that happens, good or bad, is to keep making things. Keep making art. But I’ve also learned there’s no point in actively trying to, quote-unquote, defeat your enemies. Trash takes itself out every single time.”

The star dropped hints about the upcoming rerelease in a new interview.

Originally Appeared on Glamour