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Hours before the Grammys, Kanye West popped back on social media and generated headlines for briefly only following Taylor Swift’s account on Instagram. West later just followed his wife, Bianca Censori, with whom he arrived at the Grammys this evening.
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He got to the red carpet before Swift, who is heavily nominated this year for The Tortured Poets Department. He also reportedly left before she even arrived.
Before Swift could step foot on the carpet in her Travis Kelce-coded Chiefs red minidress, West was booted out of the ceremony, according to Page Six. The outlet reported that an insider was told police escorted West and Censori out after “the crazy outfit moment they pulled on the carpet,” referring to Censori arriving naked in a completely sheer look.
Swift and West have had years of drama following West interrupting Swift’s 2009 MTV VMAs speech. At one point they were friends, then things soured when West’s then-wife Kim Kardashian released Snapchats of a private conversation Swift and West had about his song “Famous” in 2016. Since then, Swift and West have not interacted, especially at an awards show as public as the Grammys.
Swift spoke to Rolling Stone in 2019 about the end of her friendship with West. She was asked if she had any regrets about that phone call. She said: “The world didn’t understand the context and the events that led up to it. Because nothing ever just happens like that without some lead-up. Some events took place to cause me to be pissed off when he called me a bitch. That was not just a singular event. Basically, I got really sick of the dynamic between he and I. And that wasn’t just based on what happened on that phone call and with that song—it was kind of a chain reaction of things.”
She explained that when they first reconnected, she was happy “because all I ever wanted my whole career after that thing happened in 2009 was for him to respect me. When someone doesn’t respect you so loudly and says you literally don’t deserve to be here—I just so badly wanted that respect from him, and I hate that about myself, that I was like, ‘This guy who’s antagonizing me, I just want his approval.’ But that’s where I was.”
Swift detailed their ups and downs, leading up to the “Famous” phone call. After it happened, Swift said she thought, “‘OK, good. We’re back on good terms.’ And then when I heard the song, I was like, ‘I’m done with this. If you want to be on bad terms, let’s be on bad terms, but just be real about it.’”
She recalled a similar thing happening to Drake, saying West would get “close to you, earning your trust, detonating you. I really don’t want to talk about it anymore because I get worked up, and I don’t want to just talk about negative shit all day, but it’s the same thing.”
