Chrissy Teigen and John Legend have spoken about the state of their friendship with Kanye West and Kim Kardashian, after West endorsed President Donald Trump.
Teigen and Legend have been friends with 'Kimye' for years, attending their wedding ceremony in Italy in 2014 and regularly sitting together at award shows.
The couples' friendship stems from West and Legend's professional relationship which goes back to 2001 when West produced the EGOT-winner's first album.
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However, their friendship appears to have taken a negative turn over the past year or so when West made a series of controversial comments and endorsed and met with Trump (even regularly wearing a 'MAGA' cap) - whom Teigen and Legend are ardent critics of.
In a new profile for Vanity Fair - where the whole family, including Teigen and Legend's children Luna and Miles appear in a beautiful photo shoot - gave an update on their friendship.
'I'm not trying to disown Kanye because I still love him and love everything we've done together creatively,' he told the newspaper. 'But we were never the closest of friends.'
Legend reflected on when he sent texts to West in April 2018, cautioning the rapper against his close association with the President and the 'harm that Trump's policies cause, especially to people of colour'.
West then decided to make those texts public, justifying his actions as examples 'of people around me that disagree with me and voice their opinion' saying he respects it 'but I stand my ground'.
'I think what was always challenging about it was Kanye has never been political,' Legend continued to VF. 'I don't think he knows one way or another what policies of Trump's he likes. He's just kind of embraced Trump's blow-it-all-up spirit and the energy of himself being countercultural in supporting him.'
While Kardashian has not explicitly supported Trump and his policies, and has said she differs in opinion from her husband on several of their viewpoints, she has worked with Trump. She has visited him at the White House to discuss criminal justice reform on more than one occasion.
'It's a cheap win for [Trump],' Legend said of the meeting between the president and Kardashian. 'But the people being granted clemency are real people with families. So even if the clemency is won through his celebrity-whore tendencies, it's still helpful for that family and that person.
'At the same time, he's locking kids in cages and he's a terrible human being...' Legend said of Trump.
Teigen, who is friends with a lot of the Kardashian family attending birthdays and celebrations and featuring on Keeping up with the Kardashians, admitted to also feeling conflicted by this.
'To be able to go in there and put whatever you hate about him aside to do this greater good for this person?' she reflected. 'I don't know if I could physically muster that smile and handshake.'
Both Teigen and Legend are vocal critics of Trump and have been ever since the election race. Recently, they became targets of the 45th president of the United States, when he addressed them on Twitter, tagging Legend and referring to the model and chef as 'his filthy mouthed wife'.
Trump might have struggled to mention Teigen directly, as he blocked her two years ago after she tweeted at him: 'lol no one likes you.'
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Olivia Blair is Entertainment Editor (Luxury) at Hearst UK, working across ELLE, Esquire and Harper's Bazaar. Olivia covers all things entertainment and has interviewed the likes of Margot Robbie, Emma Stone, Michaela Coel and Ryan Gosling over the years.
