John Legend, Kanye West ‘No Longer Close’ After Political Fallout

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Not seeing eye to eye. John Legend revealed that politics brought on a rift in his friendship with Kanye West — main them to float aside. 

“[Kanye and I] aren’t associates as a lot as we was,” Legend, 43,  instructed host David Axelrod on a Thursday, August 4, episode of “The Axe Information” podcast. “I truthfully assume as a result of we publicly disagreed on his working for workplace, his supporting [Donald] Trump, I believe it grew to become an excessive amount of for us to maintain our friendship, truthfully.”

The 2 have a protracted historical past collectively. West, 45, was even listed as a producer on the “All of Me” singer’s debut album, Get Lifted, in 2004. Over the previous 20 years, the BFFs have supported one another by way of each private {and professional} endeavors, however that seemingly got here to an finish after Legend couldn’t get behind West working for workplace in 2020. 

“I wasn’t alone in that, however, you already know, he [West] was not joyful about that. And we actually haven’t been shut since then,” the Ohio native mentioned. 

Regardless of their variations, Legend instructed Axelrod on Thursday that he nonetheless respects his former buddy for the way open and trustworthy he’s about his life. 

“I believe he’s been very open with who he’s and his struggles with psychological well being,” the EGOT winner defined. “And he’s very actual, truthfully. So I believe there’s not lots about him that folks don’t get … Like he’s been fairly upfront together with his opinions, his struggles, all of the issues that he’s coping with. And I believe what you see with him is just about what you get.”

Legend’s standing replace on his friendship with the rapper comes at some point after spouse Chrissy Teigen introduced she was pregnant with the couple’s rainbow child. The 2, who’re additionally dad and mom of daughter Luna, 6, and Miles, 3, misplaced son Jack in September 2020. 

“The previous couple of years have been a blur of feelings to say the least, however pleasure has crammed our residence and hearts once more. 1 billion photographs later (within the leg currently, as u can see!) we’ve one other on the way in which,” Teigen, 36, wrote by way of Instagram on Wednesday, August 3, alongside a child bump mirror selfie. “Each appointment I’ve mentioned to myself, ‘okay if it’s wholesome immediately I’ll announce’ however then I breathe a sigh of reduction to listen to a heartbeat and resolve I’m simply too nervous nonetheless. I don’t assume I’ll ever stroll out of an appointment with extra pleasure than nerves however thus far, the whole lot is ideal and exquisite and I’m feeling hopeful and superb. Okay phew it’s been very laborious maintaining this in for therefore lengthy!”

In February, the Utah native revealed that she was present process in vitro fertilization to conceive one other child and was presently “balls deep in one other IVF cycle to avoid wasting as many eggos as potential.”

The IVF announcement got here two years after Teigen suffered a being pregnant loss as a consequence of partial placenta abruption. The Chrissy’s Court docket host penned a touching tribute in October 2020 describing what it was like dwelling by way of the tragic occasion. 

After the Cravings creator was instructed that her child boy “wouldn’t survive” regardless of the various blood transfusions — and he or she might not both — Teigen realized that “it was time to say goodbye” to her toddler.

“I cried slightly at first, then went into full blown convulsions of snot and tears, my breath not in a position to meet up with my very own extremely deep unhappiness,” she wrote. “Whilst I write this now, I can really feel the ache another time. … Utter and full unhappiness.”

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