Overview
- Rose, speaking on the Ball in the Family podcast Tuesday, May 5, said she urged Kanye West to grab Hennessy and take shots on the red carpet before the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards.
- She called the episode “partially my fault” and said she did not expect him to rush the stage during Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech.
- Contemporaneous photos from 2009 show West holding a Hennessy bottle on the red carpet, matching Rose’s account of drinking before the show.
- Rose said she disagreed with how West interrupted the speech but believed his point that Beyoncé’s “Single Ladies” deserved the prize over Swift’s “You Belong With Me.”
- She added that Swift later sent merchandise and concert tickets to her son, and she said there is no bad blood between them now.