Ray J is making explosive claims about “that” sex tape with Kim Kardashian.
And he is not holding back.
Perturbed by scenes that aired on The Kardashians’ new Hulu series, in which Kanye West is presented as heroically retrieving a second tape, the 41-year-old ‘One Wish’ singer is sharing what he says is the truth behind the two-decade-old scandal.
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In a jaw-dropping interview with Daily Mail, Ray J told the publication:
“I’ve never leaked anything. I have never leaked a sex tape in my life. It has never been a leak.
It’s always been a deal and a partnership between Kris Jenner and Kim and me, and we’ve always been partners since the beginning of this thing.”
Continuing, the ‘Love & Hip Hop Hollywood’ star says that he encouraged Kardashian – who was his girlfriend at the time – to release the tape after seeing how a similar tape turbo-charged the career of her friend Paris Hilton.
According to Ray J, Kardashian then got her mom and manager, Kris Jenner, to meet with the adult company Vivid Entertainment. Thereafter, he claims, he and Kardashian inked a contract for three tapes. To date, just the infamous Cabo video has been released.
Emotional, the 41-year-old added:
“I’ve sat in the shadows for over 14 years allowing the Kardashians to use my name, to abuse my name, make billions of dollars over a decade-and-a-half talking about a topic I’ve never really spoken about.
Once I pitched the idea to her [Kardashian], just playing around a little bit, that’s when she jumped on the idea, talked to her mom and it was out of my hands from there. [I] never had a tape in my possession in our whole relationship. I never had a single one at my house – she had them at her house,” he claimed to the outlet. “She’s always had all the tapes in a Nike shoebox under her bed.
The father of two went on to slam the scandal as:
“The biggest lie in the industry in the history of entertainment.”
As for the effect it had on him, Ray said:
“I felt suicidal because when you know something’s real and it’s true and you’re watching a whole family create an empire from a lie they’ve created, it’s heartbreaking and disrespectful to all the entertainers who have been honest and true to their craft.
As a black man living and working in America, it’s hard to get up every day and look out at the water or look at my family and know that they think something about you when you know it’s 1,000 percent the other way. How do you live like that?
I couldn’t be a part of any reputable major network television show and do Dancing with the Stars, and do America’s Got Talent or anything like that because of my image.Because of what they made me, I’m not allowed to be in those places.
For me, I’ve been walking on eggshells thinking I’m going to get in trouble for telling the truth and I’ve been holding onto it for the past 14 years and watching them humiliate me. They’re celebrating my destruction.”
Within the interview feature, Ray J shared screengrabs of a recent message exchange with Kardashian bemoaning much of his grievances.
According to Ray J, his anger stems from his feeling that The Kardashians (by way of their show) made it appear that he had more footage and that he was on the cusp of releasing it. The reality is that he did indeed meet with Kanye West and handed over a laptop; however, nothing explicit was on it.
There also is frustration around an on-screen remark Kardashian is seen making about Ray putting a dildo in her b*tt. A rep for the Skims owner says it was merely a joke. Ray J, however, says he doesn’t see the funny side and claims it further plays into the negative portrayal of him at the hands of The Kardashians.
Sigh.