Bianca Censori breaks silence on Venice boat ride with Kanye West

Bianca Censori denies anything X-rated took place during the widely circulated August 2023 Venice water taxi photos and says the episode left her humiliated. In her first interview since the couple wed in December 2022, she acknowledged public perception of the images but insisted the moment was misconstrued.

She described kneeling on a stool and resting her head on Kanye West’s lap as he sat on the stern, noting her aunt was also aboard and that she would not have behaved otherwise in her presence. Still, the pictures and video — which showed West’s pants seemingly down — went viral almost instantly.

The boat company that rented the taxi banned the pair for life, saying the driver had to keep a lookout for traffic and would have disembarked and reported any obscenities; it also noted a third person on board had obstructed the captain’s view and said it “completely dissociate[s]” from such behavior.