Nearly 20 years after his and Kim Kardashian’s notorious sex tape was leaked, Ray J opens up about how the situation impacted the world.
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While chatting with Shannon Sharpe on the Club Shay Shay podcast, Ray J claimed everything would have been different if his and Kim Kardashian’s tape had never been released.
“There might not be any OnlyFans,” Ray J stated. “More people would be going to college and getting an education and be successful.”
The former couple were first romantically linked in 2003 after Kardashian’s divorce from her first husband, Damon Thomas. The sex tape was filmed amid the relationship, which came to an end in 2006. However, in 2007, the tape was leaked by Vivid Entertainment.
Kim Kardashian ended up suing the adult entertainment company for the leak. The tape brought her and her family into the spotlight and in 2009, Keeping Up With the Kardashians premiered on E! The show ran for 20 seasons before ending in 2021.
Kim and her family have since started another reality series The Kardashians on Hulu.
Ray J previously claimed that the sex tape was leaked on purpose by Kim Kardashian’s mother, Kris Jenner. While speaking to Sharpe, he stated that the tape gave other people “opportunities” to make money from sexual content.
“How different would the industry be [if the tape hadn’t come out]?” he asked. “Everything would be different, we would all be different.”
When asked if he has ever felt embarrassed about the tape’s leak, Ray J took a long pause before answering, “Yeah. I have kids in the household. Are we a part of the cure or are we a part of the disease? I don’t f—ing know.”
Ray J Opened Up About His Relationship With Kim Kardashian in 2012 Book
In his book Death of a Cheating Man: What Every Woman Must KNow About Men Who Stray, Ray J wrote about how his relationship started with Kim Kardashian.
Referring to her as “KK” in the book, Ray J stated, “To be honest, the whole thing started off wrong. We’d known each other for a while before we dated, and there was a mutual attraction, but she was married.. She let me know she wanted to get with me.”
Ray J also stated that he and Kim Kardashian were together before she divorced her first husband. “She left her husband for me as soon as we started having sex, and things between us got intense really fast. After that, I felt obligated to be with her.”
Kim Kardashian brought up the situation with Ray J in during a Keeping Up With the Kardashians episode in 2018. She mentioned using ecstasy while making the sex tape.
“I did ecstasy once, and I got married. I did it again, I made a sex tape. Like, everything bad would happen,” Kardashian recalled. “Absolutely. Everyone knows it. Like, my jaw was shaking the whole time.”