With the approaching launch of her memoir, Down the Drain, Julia Fox has been sharing extra particulars of her private life which have triggered a whole lot of conjecture earlier than, notably about her relationship with Kanye West. In an interview on Friday with The Los Angeles Instances, Fox shared that when she and the rapper have been linked in 2022, she felt he “weaponized” her towards his former spouse, Kim Kardashian.
“I assumed in the end I’d be serving to a precarious state of affairs, however I discovered in a short time that I used to be being weaponized,” she claimed.
She added that she “actually understood” West “on a visceral degree” and thought their connection “might be one thing actual,” however he didn’t deal with her as she anticipated to be handled.
Fox acknowledged, “I simply felt like his little puppet.”
The memoir will share some extra particulars on the time she spent with West, although she says she “went flippantly” on him. Nevertheless, she by no means signed a non-disclosure settlement.
“I’m not signing a f-cking NDA simply on precept,” she stated. “I by no means have, and I by no means will… Until it’s an expert alternative, then positive.”
West and Fox solely dated briefly, however she nonetheless stated she believes that the connection interfered with sure alternatives. The rapper was himself dropped from quite a few model offers following his very public anti-Semitic feedback.
“I do know for a truth I’ve been up for sure issues and couldn’t do it due to courting Kanye. It’s form of wild,” she stated. “It actually wasn’t that massive of a deal, however different folks made it such an enormous deal.”
After they broke it off, Fox stated she stopped courting for some time. She targeted on her two-year-old son Valentino, who she shares with ex-husband Peter Artemiev.
“That romanticized concept of males doesn’t exist anymore,” she stated. “All of the validation I may ever get, I get from my son—the love, the intimacy, the closeness. We co-sleep at evening. I’ve all of that. I wouldn’t need anybody to come back in and take my consideration or time away from my son.”
Aimée Lutkin is the weekend editor at ELLE.com. Her writing has appeared in Jezebel, Glamour, Marie Claire and extra. Her first guide, The Lonely Hunter, might be launched by Dial Press in February 2022.
