Swift threatened legal action against West over recorded call

She knew he was trouble back in February — and reportedly even threatened legal action.

Taylor Swift’s attorney issued a strongly worded letter to Kanye West’s lawyer months ago warning that his covert recording of their discussion of his track “Famous” on the phone was a felony offense, TMZ reports.

“Demand is hereby made that you immediately destroy all such recordings, provide us of assurance that this has been done, and also assurance that these recordings have not been previously disseminated,” the letter allegedly said.
California is a two-party consent state, meaning all parties involved in a phone call must consent to being recorded. The taped call in question — which was made public Sunday night by West’s wife, Kim Kardashian — took place when the rapper was at a Los Angeles-area recording studio, according to the gossip site.

The contested call re-entered public consciousness this week after Kardashian discussed the Swift-West feud on “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” and proceeded to leak the video footage in a series of Snapchat snaps, to the collective delight of Twitter.

Swift issued a furious retort minutes later in a screengrabbed statement captioned, “That moment when Kanye West secretly records your phone call, then Kim posts it on the Internet” — insisting she had never been warned that West would call her “that b---h.”

“Being falsely painted as a liar when I was never given the full story or played any part of the song is character assassination,” she wrote. “I would very much like to be excluded from this narrative, one that I have never asked to be a part of, since 2009.”