Everything Kim Kardashian and Ray J Have Said About Their Sex Tape Drama: ‘It Was Never a Leak’

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Everything Kim Kardashian and Ray J Have Said About Their Sex Tape Drama: ‘It Was Never a Leak’

He said, she said. Kim Kardashian and Ray J's past relationship is still making headlines nearly two decades later, thanks to the singer's former manager. During an appearance on the the “Bootleg Kev” podcast in September 2021, Wack 100 claimed that he was in possession of "part two" of the infamous sex tape that the Skims founder made with Ray J (real name William Ray Norwood Jr.) when they dated in the early 2000s. "We can’t put that out there in the world like that. That’s disrespectful," the "Sexy Can I" singer's former manager said at the time, stating that he would "gift" the footage to either his former client or Kardashian's ex-husband Kanye West. “The claim that there is an unreleased sex tape is unequivocally false,” Kim’s attorney Marty Singer said in a statement to Us Weekly at the time. “It is unfortunate that people make these statements to try and get their 15 minutes of fame." Ray J echoed those sentiments, saying Wack 100's claims were "not cool" and upset him. "How can I show growth and maturity if this kinda of stuff keeps happening?” he wrote via Instagram in September 2021. "I’m a father now and my job is to be a great parent and put them first. This is not the message I want to send out – smh." In January 2022, however, West revealed during an interview with Hollywood Unlocked's Jason Lee that he had personally retrieved the footage and kept an alleged second tape from going public. "I went and got the laptop from Ray J myself that night,” the Yeezy designer recalled. “I met this man at the airport, then got on a red-eye, came back [and] delivered it to her at 8 a.m. in the morning." [jwplayer g5JwUwjA-zhNYySv2] He continued: "[Kim] cried when she saw it. You know why she cried when she seen it on the laptop? Because it represents how much she’s been used. It represents how much people didn’t love her and they just saw her as a commodity." Ray J seemingly replied at the time via Twitter, writing, “This needs to stop. I also have kids.” (He shares Melody and Epic with Princess Love. Kardashian and West, meanwhile, share daughters North and Chicago and sons Saint and Psalm.) Though she didn't comment on West's claims at the time, the KKW Beauty founder revealed that she learned about the threat of new sex tape footage being released while her son Saint was playing Roblox on his iPad. "I can’t believe this is happening right now," Kardashian said in an April 2022 episode of Hulu's The Kardashians, after seeing the "super inappropriate" popup that her son came across online. The subsequent two installments chronicled her attempt to regain control of the footage, including the emotional moment when West gifted her with the computers and hard drives that contained the alleged sex tape. “All of this is a lie smh,” Ray J commented on a Hollywood Unlocked Instagram post that included a clip from The Kardashians. “Can’t let them do this anymore – so untrue." The Love & Hip Hop Hollywood alum claimed that his meeting with the "Ultralight Beam" rapper didn't happen the way it was explained on the show and accused his ex-girlfriend and her mother, Kris Jenner, of twisting the story to make him look worse. “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,” Ray J told The Daily Mail in May 2022. “I’ve never leaked anything. I have never leaked a sex tape in my life. It has never been a leak." Keep scrolling to find out everything Kardashian and Ray J have said about the drama surrounding their sex tape: [podcast_block]

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Off the Radar

“I been staying off the Raydar [sic] – Just staying focused and being humble and thankful for all the blessings I’m receiving," the "Melody" performer wrote via Instagram in September 2021 after his former manager claimed that he had a "part two" of his sex tape with Kardashian. "How can I show growth and maturity if this kinda of stuff keeps happening? I’m a father now and my job is to be a great parent and put them first. This is not the message I want to send out – smh."

When West claimed that he retrieved the unseen footage himself in January, Ray J echoed those sentiments, tweeting, "This needs to stop. I also have kids."

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An 'Inappropriate' Surprise

"There was a picture of my cry face and I look at it and it said something super-inappropriate like, 'Kim's new sex tape'. This is supposed to be unreleased footage from my old sex tape," Kardashian said during the April 2022 premiere episode of Hulu's The Kardashians after her son showed her something that appeared on his tablet while he played Roblox. "It was clickbait insinuating that if you click on it, there was gonna be a new sex tape coming out. Had my son been a bit older and been able to read, like, I would've been mortified, but I ... died inside."

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Vowing Revenge

After an emotional phone call to West to inform him about the situation, Kardashian called her lawyer to threaten legal action against Roblox and whoever was using a potential "new sex tape" as clickbait. “I have all the time, all the money, and all of the resources to burn them all to the f--king ground," she promised.

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An 'SNL' Surprise

The day before Kardashian made her Saturday Night Live hosting debut in October 2021, West flew from New York back to California to recover all of the alleged extra footage from Ray J. “I want to show you guys what [Kanye] got me,” the Selfish author told her mother and sister as they arrived at her hotel room in the third episode of The Kardashians. "He got me all of the sex tape back. And he got the computer it was on and the hard drive. He met with Ray J at the airport, and he got it all back for me." According to Kim, the hard drive didn't contain any explicit footage.

Speaking with the cameras, she continued: "I know Kanye did this for me, but he also did this for my kids. I want to shield them from as much as I can. If I have the power to or if Kanye has the power to, that is just the most important thing to me, and I am so emotional because of it. It just means a lot to me.”

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Ray J Saying It's A Lie

Once the episode aired, however, Ray J claimed that Kardashian was lying about what really happened. "All of this is a lie smh. Can’t let them do this anymore – so untrue," he wrote via Instagram.

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A Business Deal

"I never had a single [copy of the sex tape] at my house — she had them at her house. She’s always had all the tapes in a Nike shoebox under her bed,” the "One Wish" singer told The Daily Mail in May 2022. “That’s how it all came about. Once I pitched the idea to her, 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.”

He later shared a series of alleged DMs between himself and the reality star talking about the Kardashians storyline, in which he once again claimed that Jenner orchestrated the "leak" in 2007. “Now I realize this is another promo stunt for you — unless you reach out to me soon I’m gonna take it to the level where it shows all of what we did,” Ray J wrote, per the screenshots. “All of the meetings and convos about the plan — date and times of our meetings and the whole lie you and Kris planned this since the beginning. ... Your mom controlled this whole sex tape deal with [redacted] and [redacted] — it was her idea to put out the [tape]."

The Kardashians have not yet responded to The Daily Mail article. 

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Destroying His Image

“I felt suicidal [after the tape went public] 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," Ray J told the Daily Mail. “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.”

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What Really Happened

The musician also denied that his October 2021 meeting with West occurred exactly how it was described on the reality show. “I gave it to him in a private terminal at the back of Los Angeles airport, in a private room where we talked for four hours. I gave him everything I had, I showed him everything I had — he sat on the floor and he watched everything I gave him,” Ray J told The Daily Mail. “I was showing him these timelines and letting him know that everything that’s been said to him is not true.”

Ray J did, however, confirm that there was no explicit footage on the hard drive he handed over. “It wasn’t a sex tape — it was a lot of pictures, a lot of little mini videos and a lot of proof we’ve been talking over the years [since our split]. If you send me an email in 2008, the computer doesn’t change the date on it," he explained.

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The DMs

In a series of messages he allegedly sent to Kardashian, Ray J explained why he decided to speak up after all of these years. “Me sticking a dildo in your [censored] while you sleep is pretty out of control! Lol — wouldn’t you wake up if you felt that in your butt?” he seems to have written, referring to a joke that the California native made on her reality show about "what else" could possibly be on the tape. “But seriously it makes me look like a rapist and dirty perv and I’m catching a lot of slack from it.”

He continued: “Please help me stay in a positive light and I want my kids to be proud of me. They are 3 and 2 years old. They are innocent. Please don’t make their dad look like a loser when u know me more."

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Moving Forward

After explaining that her comment about a sex toy “was clearly a sarcastic joke," Kardashian told her ex-boyfriend that she wanted them both to be able to move on from the entire situation. "I want you to know that I wish nothing but the best for you," she allegedly wrote.

"This has hurt us both in so many ways and I know we are aligned in wanting to move forward in our lives and not continue to be defined by something we did 20 years ago," Kardashian added.  Thank you for reaching out and my hope is that after next week when everyone sees that the computer was given back to Kanye that this story will be dead and done with. I’m sorry to hear how this has affected you — it wasn’t my intention."

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Calling Out Kris

Ray J doubled down on his criticism of Jenner after West slammed the momager in an August 2022 Instagram post that was later deleted. The "Heartless" rapper also shared a screenshot of a text message at the time seemingly from Kardashian on her mom's behalf, which read, "Tell him to please stop mentioning my name. I'm almost 67 years old and I don't always feel great and this stresses me to no end."

In the comments, Ray J fired back: "What about my mom Kris? You tell people false stories about me, making the black man look horrible, for your gain, you introduced me to Steve HIRSH, you masterminded everything for your family, and tried to ruin me at the same time smh — you don't think all mothers get stressed? Or you special huh?"

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The Lie Detector Drama

After Jenner denied leaking the sex tape during a September 2022 appearance on The Late Late Show With James Corden, Ray J slammed host James Corden for what he called a "fake" lie detector test. "John Grogan is a fake," the R&B artist claimed in an Instagram post about the incident, referring to the person who administered the test on the show. "He is not a polygraph examiner. He is quite accurately known as the polygraph parasite. ... THIS IS THE DUDE KRIS JENNER HAD TAKEN HER LIE DETECTOR TEST TO MAKE ME LOOK LIKE A LIAR! AND WHATS MORE SAD IS THE NETWORK ALLOWED IT TO HAPPEN!!"

The Love & Hip-Hop: Hollywood alum also slammed Kim and her mother for continuing to deny their alleged involvement in the tape's release before sharing a 44-minute video which he claimed proved that they orchestrated the leak. "YOU f--ked with THE WRONG BLACK MAN krisjenner @kimkardashian," Ray-J wrote in an Instagram caption. "I DONT GIVE A F--K HOW OLD THIS S--T IS!! WHAT YOU TRYING TO DO TO ME IS ALMOST INHUMANE AND FOUL AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL — F--K THIS BEING JUST RACIST — THIS IS WRONG TO DO TO ANYBODY — YOU THINK YOU. CAN JUST F--K PEOPLE OVER AND GET AWAY WITH IT FOREVER!!!"