It was probably a surprise to everyone when pop star Taylor Swift and Kanye “Imma let you finish” West squashed their issues and became apparent friends. The It-girl Squad leader reveals how this even happened in her recent cover story for Vanity Fair, and while the reason probably wasn’t forefront in your mind, it’s not altogether unsurprising either.

“I feel like I wasn’t ready to be friends with [West] until I felt like he had some sort of respect for me, and he wasn’t ready to be friends with me until he had some sort of respect for me—so it was the same issue, and we both reached the same place at the same time,” Swift says. “I became friends with Jay Z, and I think it was important, for Jay Z, for Kanye and I to get along. . . . And then Kanye and I both reached a place where he would say really nice things about my music and what I’ve accomplished, and I could ask him how his kid’s doing.”

Swift also touches on her motivation behind penning that game-changing Tumblr post to Apple and what makes her female relationships so strong. The full interview is currently published in VF’s September issue and you can check out their extended review of it here.

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