All the JAW-DROPPING Kanye West Details in Julia Fox's Book, Down the Drain _ E!
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00:00 Here is everything Julia Fox reveals about dating Kanye West in her new memoir.
00:05 In Down the Drain, the model describes her month-long relationship with Ye, who she refers
00:10 to only as "the artist" in the book, and how she became his number one muse for a brief
00:15 period of time.
00:16 First, how did they meet?
00:18 Fox explains on the page that the two linked up after she asked a friend to get Ye's number.
00:22 She writes that they spent hours on the phone and then met up at a Miami club in the early
00:26 hours of New Year's Day 2022.
00:30 Julia recalls that after they talked for a while, Kanye brought her outside while he
00:34 relieved himself in a parking lot, then kissed her, quote, "passionately."
00:38 She explains that at dinner the same night, Ye asked Fox if she wanted to be his girlfriend,
00:43 and she, quote, "burst out laughing."
00:45 He asked how she felt about taking their relationship public.
00:48 She remembers telling him, "I think we should wait a few weeks."
00:51 Fox says in the book that Ye later offered to get her a boob job.
00:55 And who could forget the pair's matching denim outing at Paris Fashion Week at the end of
00:58 January?
00:59 It started off all good, but Julia writes that she and West fought after the Schiaparelli
01:03 show about each other's traveling companions.
01:06 The rapper criticized her friends, who, according to Fox, he'd hired as stylists after meeting
01:11 them in Miami, and she countered by telling him how much she disliked certain members
01:16 of his entourage.
01:18 Upon their return to New York, she writes, "West stopped answering her calls, and his
01:21 assistant told her he was on a, quote, 'month-long phone break.'"
01:25 The flames soon fizzled after Fox's February 2nd birthday, and in the book, Julia writes
01:30 that she informed Kanye over text that she was no longer having fun, and he asked her
01:34 not to leave him, she says.
01:36 But then on their next and ultimately last phone call, they fought about her past.
01:41 After she hung up, Fox says she told her publicist to let it be known the relationship was over.
01:46 Julia also writes that sometime after their final conversation, West told her over text
01:50 that they couldn't remain friends unless she signed an NDA, and Fox's team started hearing
01:55 from him as well.
01:57 Julia says she then texted him a lengthy explanation as to why she wasn't signing, quote, "Jack
02:03 s**t."
02:04 E! News attempted to find a rep for West to respond to Fox's recollections of their relationship
02:08 in her book, but hasn't heard back.
02:11 Julia recently gave E! News a teaser of how much of the relationship she would include
02:15 in the book.
02:16 Now, you've been called many things in your life.
02:18 Now, Arthur is one of them.
02:20 Tell me about the book.
02:21 I am so excited for the book.
02:23 I feel like it was just so cathartic to like let go of all that, you know, because I feel
02:28 like in life things happen and you just kind of pretend that they didn't happen and put
02:31 them away in a shelf in your mind and that's it.
02:35 And when you're writing a book, you're like really forced to confront those things, you
02:39 know, so I feel like, damn, like it's heavy and it's and I'm, you know, I'm not afraid
02:45 to be vulnerable.
02:46 Like, I like don't feel shame ever.
02:48 I'm like, this is what it is, you know, so I'm just I'm curious to see what the reaction
02:55 will be, but hopefully I hope that it can be helpful, you know, and maybe other people
03:01 can be like, oh, wow, like, you know, maybe what happened to me isn't so bad or, you know,
03:06 or like I can deal with it too.
03:08 And I always say like your pain can be like your greatest gift.
03:12 You know, you can even make it like your like purpose and and, you know, beautiful things
03:17 can be born out of like those awful feelings.
03:21 You cover Kanye?
03:22 A little bit.
03:23 There's a but it's it's like six pages and I feel like I went very lightly on it.
03:29 You know, I'm not trying to have bad blood or anything.
03:32 You know, it's all in the past.
03:33 I.
03:34 Mm hmm.
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