André Leon Talley Is Spilling Major Tea About His "Friendship" With Anna Wintour

by Guest of A Guest · April 23, 2020

    After decades of working alongside each other in the glossy offices of Vogue, it appears André Leon Talley and Anna Wintour's friendship is most definitely over.

    The 70-year-old former Editor-at-Large has apparently been working on a memoir titled The Chiffon Trenches, which comes out in September, and in it he's spilling some major tea about everyone's favorite (or least favorite) icy fashion icon.

    According to the Daily Mail, Talley writes that he has "huge emotional and psychological scars" from his relationship with Wintour, claiming that she is "not capable of human kindness" and that "'she has mercilessly made her best friends people who are the highest in their chosen fields," listing the likes of Serena Williams, and George and Amal Clooney. "I am no longer of value to her."

    Though we're not really surprised by the idea that Wintour would curate her social circle, his claim that he was "too overweight" for her was particularly scathing. In the book, he recalls her staging an intervention for him alongside Oscar de la Renta and his wife, and sending him to rehab to lose weight. Yikes!

    In recent years, he writes, she has "decimated [him] with this silent treatment," and even coyly dismissed him from his red carpet interviews at the Met Gala. Though he was told such things were "beneath" him, he knew it "was clearly a stone-cold business decision." 

    "After decades of loyalty and friendships...Anna should have had the decency and kindness to call me or send me an email saying: 'Andre, I think we have had a wonderful run with your interviews but we are going to try something new.' Simple human kindness. No, she is not capable."

    While his accusations don't seem that far-fetched, we will admit that his "hope that she will find a way to apologize before [he dies], show up at [his] bedside, with an extended hand... and say: 'I love you. You have no idea how much you have meant to me,'" is a little extra. And god knows Talley has always been a bit batty himself.

    Nevertheless, we've obviously already pre-ordered the book.

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