Kanye: Taylor Swift moment was ‘the beginning of the end of my life’

YES, Kanye’s still banging on about the moment he ruined Tay-Tay’s acceptance speech. He says it also ruined HIS life.

Singer Kanye West takes the microphone from singer Taylor Swift as she accepts the ''Best Female Video'' award during the MTV...

IT HAPPENED all of seven years ago, but Kanye West still hasn’t quite gotten over the infamous moment when he stormed the stage at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards to wrestle Taylor Swift’s award from her.

West’s subsequent ‘Imma let you finish’ speech — in which he argued that Swift didn’t deserve to win the Music Video of the Year award, because fellow nominee Beyonce made one of the “best videos of all time” — went down in infamy as one of the most painful award show moments ever.

This week, addressing the crowd on stage during his first show of 2016 in Manila, Philippines, West revealed that the moment was the “beginning of the end” for him.

The moment it all went south.

“What I wanted you to know the whole time — you know, in the spirit of Nina Simone, in the spirit of real artists — this is the song that broke the writer’s block for me because it’s something I wanted to say so bad that they told me I couldn’t say,” West said, introducing the song Famous from his new album The Life Of Pablo (controversial because it includes the couplet “I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex / Why? I made that b*tch famous”).

“That night when I went onstage was the beginning of the end of my life. Lady Gaga cancelled the tour the next day. You know what night I’m talking about — when I just said what everybody else was thinking. So if I get in trouble for saying the truth, what’s being said the rest of the time?”

Yeezy says life went downhill after the 2009 MTV Awards. Uh ... he seems to be doing OK. Picture: Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images

West and Gaga did have a co-headlining tour planned, but it was axed before they went on the road as concerns swirled about his unpredictable behaviour.

“And I had to fight every day of my life when the whole world turned against me for saying out loud what everyone else felt, but that’s the job of an artist, of a true artist: not to be controlled by their finances, not to be controlled by perception, but only to be controlled by their truth — what you see, what you feel — and say what you f**king feel.”

Kanye West: Artist, truthteller, hero.