Uncut Gems actor Julia Fox says she dated Kanye West to "get him off Kim Kardashian's case", hoping she could distract him from the trouble he was causing his ex-wife.
The pair dated for less than two months beginning in January this year.
When told by a fan on TikTok, "I just wish you weren't dating a famously violent misogynist and antisemite," Fox decided to reveal why she dated the Donda rapper.
Saying she had been planning to hold it for a book next year, Fox then launched into the reasons why she'd had a brief dalliance with the rapper, and how it had started off normally.
"Anyway, so by the time me and him got together, it was like, he hadn't been doing anything, you know, like out there yet.
"He, the only thing he had done was change the name in the song and said like, 'Come back to me, Kimberly.' That was like really the only thing when we met.
"But I remember just being like, ugh, he was texting me, I wasn't really answering. I was like I don't really want to talk [with] this celebrity again. You know what I mean? Nothing ever comes of it. They're kind of boring. They're not what you think they're going to be like," she said.
She also said West began repeatedly texting her after they'd met.
"He was like you have bad text etiquette and I was like, oh my god, Kanye's yelling at me. What do I do? But then I had this thought: I was like, oh my god, maybe I can get him off of Kim's case.
"Maybe I can distract him, just get him to like me and I knew if anyone can do it, it's me because when I set my mind to something, I do it. And I will say that that month that we spent together, he wasn't on Twitter first of all. He wasn't on any forms of social media."
She also said the relationship had started out on a strong footing, and had been "really beautiful."
"He didn't even talk about his relationship. We only really talked about clothes and weird ideas and plans for the future and our hopes and dreams for childhood and education. And it was really beautiful, guys.
"The moment he started tweeting, I was out. And that's the thing, it's like, the media reported on our relationship ending a week after it happened or something. So during that week, I think you guys thought that we were together, but we weren't.
"I'd already been like, 'Dude, I'm not going to stick around for this shit.' And also, I realised pretty quickly that he wasn't going to take my help. I was like, 'I want to help him. I want to help him.' I sounded almost as dumb as you guys, saying that I should've done something to stop him from saying - like, what? But anyway, I was delusional. I thought I could help him. Anyway it didn't work and now we're here.
"But that being said, really, deeply respect the man as an artist. I don't want to shit on that. I don't want to reduce his whole career to his really bad moments, you know? But that being said, I stand with the Jewish community, period."
West recently returned to Twitter after drawing widespread backlash over multiple anti-Semitic rants that saw him banned across social media last month.
His behaviour saw him lose lucrative deals from the likes of Adidas and Gap, as well as being banned from some New Zealand radio stations.
