"I felt like his puppet." Julia Fox talks about her romance with Kanye West
In a new interview with The Los Angeles Times Julia Fox, who is currently promoting her memoir Flushing Down the Toilet, (Down the Drain), revealed the details of her short but vibrant romance with Kanye West. The actress dated the rapper in 2022 - at that time he was going through a scandalous breakup with Kim Kardashian.
According to Julia, Kanye used her as a “weapon” against your ex-wife. “I thought I would end up helping resolve that dangerous situation, but I very quickly realized that I was being used as a weapon,” Julia said, adding that while she did understand the rapper on some “intuitive level,” and believed that an affair with him could be something "real", West did not treat her the way she expected. “I just felt like his puppet,” Fox explained.
The actress noted that in her book it is very “soft” described the time spent with Kanye. Moreover, this was her own decision, because she, on principle, did not sign the non-disclosure agreement proposed by the rapper. “I will not sign any agreements, out of principle. “I have never done this and I don’t intend to, unless it concerns my work,” said the star.
She also said that because of the connection with Kanye, with whom many companies broke contracts due to a series of scandals associated with him, she was also put on an unspoken blacklist: “I know for sure that I couldn’t take part in a number of projects because I was dating Kanye. This is just wildness." Fox noted that despite the press attention that her romance with Kanye attracted, she herself “wasn’t seriously invested” in it. in a relationship with a rapper: “It wasn’t something that important to me, but other people attached too much importance to it.”
After breaking up with West, Julia temporarily lost interest in dating. According to her, "the romanticized idea of men no longer exists." Now the main man in the actress’s life is her son Valentino from her ex-husband, private aviation pilot Pyotr Artemyev. "All the recognition I can get I get from my son. Love, intimacy. At night we sleep together. I have all this. “I don’t want anyone to come and take my attention and time away from my son,” Julia said.
Memoirs of the actress “Flushing Down the Toilet” will be out in a few days. In them, Juliatalked, among other things, about kissing an older man at the age of 11, experiencing a miscarriage in a bar toilet and BDSM practices. Fox's comments about Kanye West seem especially relevant now that the rapper is accused of essentially "enslaving" his new wife Bianca Censori. It recently became known that West has drawn up a whole set of rules for Bianca, in which he dictates what she should wear. >what to eat, what never to say and how to behave.