JOHN LEGEND CLARIFIES REAL REASON FOR FALLOUT WITH KANYE WEST

John Legend has shed light on the real reason he and Kanye West are no longer friends.

The former collaborators butted heads over their differing political views and suffered a fallout as Ye was running for president in 2020.

In a recent interview with The New Yorker, the Grammy Award-winning singer expounded on the topic and claimed his initial comments about their crumbling friendship were misconstrued.

“Yeah, what it got described as was, we stopped being friends because he supported Trump, which was a mischaracterization of what I said,” Legend explained. “That was kind of the Rupert Murdoch version of the story — it was all over the New York Post and Fox News.”

Legend explained West was particularly bothered by his support of current President of the United States Joe Biden instead of him.

“What I was saying was that he was very upset with me that I didn’t support him running for President, and that was the real impetus for us having a strain in our friendship,” he continued. “I don’t know what will happen in the future, but he was very upset with me that I didn’t support him and I supported Joe Biden. It’s up to him whether he can get past that.”

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