{"id":630619,"date":"2026-06-10T06:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T06:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/630619\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T06:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T06:22:09","slug":"kanye-west-model-who-alleges-rapper-choked-her-says-she-felt-suffocated-and-scared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/630619\/","title":{"rendered":"Kanye West: Model who alleges rapper choked her says she felt ‘suffocated and scared’"},"content":{"rendered":"

West did not end up appearing in the released version of the In For The Kill music video, although he featured as a guest rapper on a remix of the song.<\/p>\n

After the alleged encounter, An said she spoke to La Roux, real name Elly Jackson, who apologised for what had happened.<\/p>\n

“And then I was like, ‘you’re not gonna air that, right? Like, you’re not gonna share that with anyone, because I can’t have my mum see that’. And she [Jackson] was like, no, of course not, I would never,” An said.<\/p>\n

In 2024, An got back in touch with La Roux via a direct message on Instagram asking if she remembered the alleged incident.<\/p>\n

The singer responded, external<\/a> saying she did, adding: “I could never forget that, it was horrific.” Those messages have been submitted to the court as corroborating evidence.<\/p>\n

In the Instagram messages, seen by Fame Under Fire, La Roux told An: “[West] knew exactly what he was doing, he thought it was funny.”<\/p>\n

After the encounter, La Roux said in the Instagram message: “He whispered to me ‘I bet you think I just put women back about 10 years’. I responded, ‘You just put women back about 500 years’.”<\/p>\n

The BBC has asked La Roux for further comment.<\/p>\n

An filed her civil lawsuit against West, external<\/a> later in 2024 under New York City’s Gender-Motivated Violence Protection Act, which temporarily extends the statute of limitations for sexual assault survivors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West did not end up appearing in the released version of the In For The Kill music video,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-630619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=630619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}