Julia Fox is not holding back when discussing her infamous relationship with Kanye West.
In a recent interview with the Los Angeles Times, the Uncut Gems actor and beloved social media star opened up about her highly publicized but short-lived romance with West. While promoting her forthcoming memoir, Down the Drain, Fox talked about how she initially thought her relationship with West “could be something real.”
“I really understood him on a visceral level,” Fox told the Times of West, whom she dated for about two months in early 2022.
Fox also said she thought her relationship with him would “get him off [Kim Kardashian's] case." West was in the process of finalizing his divorce from Kardashian at the time and was increasingly hostile toward his soon-to-be ex-wife and her then-boyfriend Pete Davidson.
“I thought ultimately I’d be helping a precarious situation," she continued, "but I learned very quickly that I was being weaponized. I just felt like his little puppet.”
Fox also discussed West in her book, referring to him as “the artist,” according to the Times, but said she actually “went lightly” on writing about their relationship. Some have speculated that this may be due to her signing a nondisclosure agreement (NDA), but Fox insists she never signed one.
“I’m not signing a f**king NDA, just on principle. I never have, and I never will,” Fox added. “Unless it’s a professional opportunity, then sure.”
The media coverage of West and Fox was extensive and they were shown together at several public events. West famously bought her and her friends Birkin bags for Fox's 32nd birthday. But while the media frenzy looked overwhelming from the outside, Fox said, it “really wasn’t that big of a deal.”
After their breakup, West's reputation declined further after expressing his extremist, anti-Semitic views, along with his continued public harassment of Kardashian. West's most lucrative partnerships with Adidas and Balenciaga were severed after the brands cut ties with the rapper because of his hate speech. Adidas said in a statement that West's comments and actions “have been unacceptable, hateful, and dangerous, and they violate the company’s values of diversity and inclusion, mutual respect and fairness.”
Since West's controversy, Fox said she also felt the heat from once being associated with him and believes she's been blacklisted in some ways. “I know for a fact I’ve been up for certain things and couldn’t do it because of dating Kanye,” Fox said. “It’s kind of wild.”
Since her very public relationship with West, Fox said she's sworn off men altogether and that she hasn't had sex in two years. “I’m so happy. I sleep so well,” Fox said. “That romanticized idea of men doesn’t exist anymore.”
Fox's memoir, Down the Drain, is set to be released on October 10.
