Sabrina Carpenter revealed whether working with Kim Kardashian affected the singer's friendship with Taylor Swift.
During a recent interview with Rolling Stone, The 25-year-old actor spoke candidly about doing a campaign with Kardashian's shapewear brand, Skims, earlier this year. The April collaboration quickly made headlines, as the reality star has infamously feuded with Carpenter's close friend Swift.
However, according to the “Espresso” singer, Swift had no problem with the Skims campaign, and the two friends even discussed the topic quite frequently.
“As much as people want to believe that you're in tune with every little detail, I'm not because I'm constantly working. In that scenario, I have been very, very communicative with her about that situation, I love her very much and I support her until the end,” explained Carpenter, one of the opening acts on Swift's Eras Tour.
He added: “So it wasn't anything strange to me, but I know people will just say things because it's all they have time to do.”
During the interview, Carpenter also gushed about Swift and her immense success in the music industry. “I could never compare my life, my career, my trajectory to anything like what she has done,” she said of her friend.
The “Nonsense” singer went on to praise some of Swift's hit songs, including some from her most recent album. The Department of Tortured Poetswhich came out in April.
“She always puts out music at a time when I didn't realize I needed those songs,” he added. “We are very, very verbal with each other about our love and admiration for each other… She played 'But Dad, I love him' to me before she came out, and that's one of my favorites too.”
However, the long-term feud between Swift and Kardashian dates back to 2009, when the reality star's then-boyfriend, rapper Kanye West, stormed the VMAs stage when Swift won Best Female Video, while He was protesting because Beyoncé deserved the award. grant.
In December 2023, when she was appointed TimeAs Person of the Year, Swift reflected on when Kardashian leaked a phone call between the singer and West, during which Swift appeared to allow her to use his name in her song “Famous.” However, the “All Too Well” singer has denied those claims.
speaking to TimeSwift said that when Kardashian posted the phone call, she felt like it was “the death of her career.” She said: “Make no mistake: they took my career away from me.”
She went on to explain how the phone call affected her reputation, stating, “Kim Kardashian edited [it] and then put [it] “I went out to tell everyone that I was a liar.”
Swift then recalled how the phone call leak in 2016 affected her mental health, before revealing that she even moved to a new house to hide from the attention.
“That took me psychologically to a place I had never been before. I moved to a foreign country. I didn’t leave a rental house for a year,” she said. “I was afraid of receiving phone calls. I pushed away most of the people in my life because I didn't trust anyone anymore. I fell very, very hard.”
When Swift was released The Department of Tortured Poets, fans quickly noticed that she seemed to make multiple Kardashian references in the song “thanK you aIMee.” The biggest sign that the song could be related to Kardashian is the use of capital letters in the title letters (K, I and M) that spell her name.
