Julia Fox and Kanye West’s relationship: 9 biggest revelations from the actress’ new memoir Down the Drain, from that Interview Magazine tell-all to boob job offers and Hermès Birkin gifts

Oct 12 , 2023

Julia Fox and Ye attend the Kenzo fall/winter 2022-2023 show as part of Paris Fashion Week in Paris, France, in January 2022. Photo: Getty Images

Uncut Gems actress Julia Fox just released her new memoir Down the Drain on October 10, revealing details about her relationship with Ye – which apparently wasn’t as glamorous as it sounded

She claimed that she lost out on a job in Los Angeles due to her ties with Skims founder Kim Kardashian, as well as a ‘million-dollar deal’ with an Italian denim company after they broke up

In the first month of 2022, Julia Fox and Ye (formerly known as Kanye West) dated – and then swiftly broke up.

The couple’s whirlwind courtship took place in the midst of Ye’s contentious divorce from his former wife, Skims founder Kim Kardashian, and featured several Carbone dates, some Birkin bags and a memorable Interview Magazine story filled with photos of their first date in New York City.

Julia Fox attends the Wiederhoeft fashion show during New York Fashion Week at La Mama Experimental Theatre in New York City, US, on September 12. Photo: AFP

The reality of their relationship, however, was less glamorous than it appeared on the outside, as Fox recounts in her new memoir Down the Drain, released on October 10. While she told Interview Magazine during their relationship that it was “cathartic” packing up her old clothes as part of her fashion “transformation”, she reflects on feeling “powerless” in her memoir as her friends packaged up her old garments.

Here are nine biggest revelations about Fox’s relationship with Ye, who she refers to as “the artist”, from her memoir.

1. Ye asked Fox to be his girlfriend the day after they met

Julia Fox met Kanye West in Miami for the first time at the end of 2021. Photo: Getty Images

The Uncut Gems actress writes in the memoir that a friend asked if he could pass on her number to a “famous artist”. After she gave her permission to do so, Ye texted her and “dozens of phone calls” followed. They finally met in person, she writes, at a New Year’s Party in Miami at the end of 2021.

The next morning, Fox woke up to “dozens of missed calls” from Ye, and they spent the day together before getting dinner that night at Carbone. There, Ye asked her to be his girlfriend as a photographer captured the moment.

Kanye West, known as Ye, watches the first half of an NBA basketball game between the Washington Wizards and the Los Angeles Lakers in Los Angeles, US, in March 2022. Photo: AP Photo

“I shut the idea down,” Fox writes. “‘I think we should wait a few weeks. It feels really fast to take such a big step, no?’”

Their relationship, however, progressed, with Ye hiring two of Fox’s friends to style her that night. The next day, the photos of them at Carbone had made it online.