Breaking News: Taylor Swift responds to Kim Kardashian’s recent comments with a firm but polite message: ‘I don’t have time for petty drama, but I think you could use a lesson in kindness and respect.’ Swift’s statement is a clear indication that she’s not going to engage in any back-and-forth with Kardashian …

the matter—urging her fans to pay attention to what “really matters,” COVID-19 relief, but also touching on the call’s impact on her (“the one that was illegally recorded, that somebody edited and manipulated in order to frame me and put me, my family, and fans through hell for the last 4 years”)—Kim Kardashian took to Twitter and posted a thread about how Swift was “actually lying,” and she was “left without a choice but to respond.

” Kardashian also apologized for writing extensively about this issue as “I know you are all dealing with more serious and important matters” during the coronavirus pandemic.

Swift has not responded to Kardashian, but her publicist Tree Paine did, pointing out that in Kardashian’s thread, the reality starSwift’s reputation took a hit when the Snapchats were released, and she was attacked on social media by those who saw her as a “snake” and liar. She ended up retreating from public life for a year afterThe full phone call video that leaked was seen by some fans—and Swift herself—to be vindicating for her. As Swift pointed out in her statement yesterday, the clips showed “I was telling the truth the whole time about *that call*.”

But Kardashian didn’t see it that way. In her Twitter thread, she wrote: