Julia Fox Talks 'Regret' Over Kanye West Relationship: 'I Was Being Used as a Pawn'

Mar. 15, 2025

Julia Fox; Kanye West.Photo:Ilya S. Savenok/Getty; Brad Barket/Getty

Ilya S. Savenok/Getty; Brad Barket/Getty

Julia Foxis reflecting on her brief romance with exKanye West.

TheUncut Gemsstar, 34, shared in an interview, published inThe Timeson Saturday, Oct. 12, that she feels “regret” over her 2022 relationship with the musician, 47.

“I regret that relationship so much," Fox told the outlet of West, whom she apparently described as “the artist” in her 2023 memoirDown the Drain.

“I hate it! It was only a few weeks but enough to last me a lifetime,” she added. “I was in probably the most uncomfortable position in my life and that’s saying a lot. I don’t want to be known for being anyone’s girlfriend.”

A rep for West, who haschanged his name to Ye, did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment on Saturday.

Kanye West and Julia Fox in Paris in January 2022.Marc Piasecki/GC Images

Fox and West met in Miami on New Year’s Eve 2021 before a Fox rep confirmed their split on Feb. 14, 2022. Their romance came after West’s 2021 split from ex-wifeKim Kardashian.

“It wasn’t my idea for it to go public,” Fox said. “If anything, I was like, ‘We should wait,’ and then boom, it was done behind my back. I realized pretty quickly I was being used as a pawn.”

Fox’s latest interview reiteratessome of what she wrote aboutinDown the Drain, which she released in October 2023. In it, she claimed that “the artist” offered to get her a “boob job,” he asked her to sign an NDA and stylists put her into an outfit he had approved.

“I really credit my son for being my grounding force,” she said of now-3-year-oldValentino, who she shares with ex-husband Peter Artemiev. “It was like, I can’t go down this spiral because no man, no matter how rich or famous, is worth one minute away from my child.”

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It’s been a year since Fox released her memoir, which touches on her childhood in New York City, forming a heroin habit in her teens, her work withAdam SandlerinUncut Gemsand her relationship with “the artist.”

During an interview withVarietyin April, Fox opened up about raising her only son, and how she believes keeping your children out of the spotlight as a public figure is “almost like a disservice.”

source: people.com