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Taylor Swift<\/a> is opening up about one of the darkest moments in her life.<\/span><\/p>\n In <\/span>a new interview<\/a> for <\/span>Time<\/span><\/em>‘s <\/span>Person of the Year<\/a> edition — her first print interview in four years — the “Anti-Hero” singer gets candid about the leaked video which showed <\/span>Kanye West<\/a> asking Taylor for her permission to name-drop her in his 2016 song, “Famous.”<\/span><\/p>\n After the song’s release, Taylor claimed she never consented to Kanye’s lyric in reference to her — “I made that b**ch famous” — though the rapper and then-wife <\/span>Kim Kardashian<\/a> insisted the singer signed off on the line.<\/span><\/p>\n Kim even went so far as to release <\/span>an edited video<\/a> of a phone call between Taylor and Kanye that seemed to show the moment Taylor OK’d the line. However, when <\/span>the full clip of the call<\/a>\u00a0was later dug up by Swifties, it became evident that Taylor had only been told about a different lyric.<\/span><\/p>\n In the unedited video, after Kanye tells Taylor to “brace herself” to hear his proposed line, Taylor asks, “Is it gonna be mean?”\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n “No, I don’t think it’s mean,” Kanye replies.<\/span><\/p>\n He then shares the lyric, rapping, “I feel like Taylor Swift might owe me sex,” with Swift laughing in response and saying, “That’s not mean.”<\/span><\/p>\n At no point in the video is the line “I made that b**ch famous” discussed, and in fact, Taylor expresses her worry that Kanye was going to call her a “b**ch” in the song.<\/span><\/p>\n “It doesn\u2019t feel mean,” she says again of the line, “but like, oh my god, the build-up you gave it. I thought it was gonna be like, ‘That stupid, dumb b**ch,’ like, but it\u2019s not.”<\/span><\/p>\n These days, Taylor told <\/span>Time<\/span><\/em>, she thinks of the incident as a “fully manufactured frame job.”<\/span><\/p>\n “[It was] an illegally recorded phone call, which Kim Kardashian edited and then put out to say to everyone that I was a liar,” she recalled. “Make no mistake\u2014my career was taken away from me… I thought that moment of backlash was going to define me negatively for the rest of my life.”<\/span><\/p>\n In a Twitter thread after the full video was released,\u00a0<\/span>Kim defended her position<\/a>, saying she felt “forced to defend” Kanye amid the fallout.<\/span><\/p>\n But, from Taylor’s point of view, the damage was done.<\/span><\/p>\n “That took me down psychologically to a place I’ve never been before,” Taylor she said of the public feud. “I moved to a foreign country. I didn\u2019t 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.”<\/span><\/p>\n In the years since, the singer has shaken off the negativity and is currently embracing the spotlight again amid the success of her worldwide Eras Tour and high-profile romance with NFL star <\/span>Travis Kelce<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n “This is the proudest and happiest I’ve ever felt, and the most creatively fulfilled and free I’ve ever been,” she marveled to <\/span>Time<\/span><\/em>. “Ultimately, we can convolute it all we want, or try to overcomplicate it, but there’s only one question.”<\/span><\/p>\n