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There’s a good reason <\/strong>Taylor Swift<\/strong> called out Kim Kardashian<\/strong> in TIME over a now 7-year-old phone call with Kanye West<\/strong> — it’s an incident for which Kim still has not apologized … TMZ has learned.<\/p>\n Sources with direct knowledge tell us Kim has never said sorry to Taylor over the notorious “Famous” phone call<\/strong> between Taylor and Kanye in 2016 … the one Kim and Ye released, attempting to show Taylor was cool with the song’s racy line about her.<\/p>\n Remember, at the time of the track’s release, Taylor expressed outrage over Ye’s lyric … “I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex \/\/ Why? I made that bitch famous.” In response to Taylor’s anger, Kim posted her version of the recorded phone call<\/strong> in an effort to prove Taylor understood exactly what the song would include.<\/p>\n However, the full unedited version of the recorded call eventually came out, and it became clear Kanye had not revealed he’d refer to Taylor as a “bitch.”<\/p>\n Our sources say Kim’s never apologized to Taylor for the call — and even after the Time article, it’s still crickets.<\/p>\n Interestingly, we’re told Taylor would actually accept an apology from Kim on this issue, even all these years later, but only under one specific condition … it would have to be done publicly.<\/p>\n As one source put it to us, a public shaming calls for a public “I’m sorry.”<\/p>\n Our sources say Taylor still feels like Kim and Kanye were in the wrong … and she was dumbfounded when Kim doubled down on her position even after the full, unedited version of their call got published.<\/p>\n From Kim’s POV — which she made clear in tweets at the time, and in subsequent interviews — the fact Taylor was looped in on the song, period, vindicated her and Kanye … but we’re told Taylor’s position has always been about the use of the word “bitch.”<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/imagez.tmz.com\/image\/1e\/16by9\/2016\/07\/19\/1ecdf855a7365cd68a0a33ce260bbeca_md.jpg\")
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