Taylor Swift says Jay Z help end her feud with Kanye West

Taylor Swift says Jay Z was responsible for her feud with Kanye West coming to an end.

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The two musicians have a checkered history with Kanye famously interrupting her acceptance speech for Best Female Video at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards to insist Beyonceshould have won the accolade.

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But Taylor has revealed she and Kanye were able to reconcile their differences thanks to mutual friend Jay Z - who is Beyonce's husband - who was determined for them to start afresh.

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Speaking to the new issue of Vanity Fair magazine, she said: ''I feel like I wasn't ready to be friends with (Kanye) 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. 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.''

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Although Taylor and Kanye - who has daughter North with his wife Kim Kardashian West - have only recently become pals, the 'Style' hitmaker has a very close group of friends who she can always rely on.