Kanye West’s ex Amber Rose shares ‘unprofessional’ first meeting with rapper
Amber Rose has opened up about the first time she worked with Kanye West – ultimately leading to their shock relationship.
Model Amber, 41, dated Kanye, 47, from 2008 to 2010, and met when he invited her to work on the music video for his song Robocop. After being flown out from New York to Los Angeles, however, Amber realised that the rapper may have had more than just work on his mind.
The former stripper spoke to host Shannon Sharpe on his podcast Club Shay Shay, and admitted that she was “so young” she didn’t know that Kanye may have had romantic intentions. Shannon brought up Amber’s career on music videos, and asked whether she tried to keep things “professional” or might have set out to bag herself a musician.
Amber immediately guessed that he was referring to her fling with Kanye, and suggested that things may have been unprofessional on his side. “He flew me out to do Robocop video because he was like ‘You look like a robot, I think this would be cool.’ And I said ‘Absolutely, you’re Kanye West, of course I’ll come out to shoot the video. It would be an honour,’” she described.
Machine Gun Kelly‘s ex continued: “I go to LA, and we’re like hanging out at night, I meet him, and he’s on another video set. And I’m like, ‘Okay, so what time should I be ready tomorrow, is a car going to-’ you know, because I’m so used to the other videos I’ve done before that…”
“You’re keeping it professional,” said Shannon, with Amber agreeing and explaining: “And he’s like ‘Nah, nah, just chill, we’re going to figure it out. So then a day goes by, and then another day goes by, we’re going out to dinners… we’re doing everything but shooting the video!”
Amber shared that Kanye’s focus on dinners out rather than work wasn’t what she was used to, saying: “I only brought one outfit, because that’s what I was used to – you fly in, you do the video, you have an outfit to go back on the plane and go home.
“He’s like, ‘You don’t need no outfit, don’t even worry about it, I got you.’ So then we go out to dinner, and this is like the fourth-fifth day I’m there. And he’s like, ‘I know this is crazy but do you want to come to the Grammys with me.”
The Donald Trump supporter then suggested that being “flown out” might mean something different in Hollywood, and she didn’t realise at the time that Kanye wanted her on his arm.
She said: “So then we went to the Grammys, and I was so young, Shannon, I’m like, ‘Are we still doing this video?’ I did not realise I got flown out. I did not know that. I was so green I didn’t realise that he really flew me out because he saw me in the video and thought I was hot and then he flew me out. But I didn’t know.’”
Amber described how soon after the Grammys she had to head home to a funeral, and after Kanye called her several times a day during her absence he then begged her to move to LA to be with him. She said that after she said she’d have to pack up her stuff he even told her not to bother – saying that if she flew back as quickly as possible he’d kit her out with everything she needed.
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