UPDATE: Kanye West Calls Taylor Swift, Apologizes

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2:40 pm, September 15th, 2009

UPDATE  2:40PM:  Kanye West has apologized to Taylor Swift. “The View” released a statement saying, “After the show he spoke personally to the country music superstar via telephone and has apologized to the 19-year-old singer. She has accepted Mr. West’s apology. The contents of the phone call are to remain private.”

11:50 AM:  Taylor Swift appeared on “The View” moments ago to discuss Sunday night’s controversy at the MTV Video Music Awards, where Kanye West hijacked her acceptance of the Best Female Video award to praise Beyonce. The incident has been water cooler conversation for the past two days, and Swift’s appearance on “The View” was her first opportunity to talk about Sunday’s stunner.

Swift got a standing ovation from the hosts and the entire audience when she walked out.

After showing the video of Kanye’s rude interruption, Swift was asked to recap what was going through her mind at the time. She said, “I think my overall thought process was something like, ‘Wow I can’t believe I won. This is awesome. Don’t trip and fall. I’m going to get to thank the fans, this is so cool—oh, Kanye West is here.” It got laughs from the audience. Swift continued, “Kanye West is here, cool haircut, what are you doing there? And then ouch, and then I guess I’m not going to get to thank the fans.”

“I’m not going to say I wasn’t rattled by it,” said Swift, adding, however, that she had to recompose herself to perform only five minutes later.

She was warmed by all the artists, fans and tweeters who showed their support in the hours following. She said “I never imagined that there were that many people looking out for me.” She added it was “really wonderful to see there were people out there defending me so I didn’t have to.”

Swift then performed music from her album “Fearless,” which clearly she is.

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