The full apology:
To Those I’ve Hurt:
Twenty-five years ago, I was in a car accident that broke my jaw and caused injury to the right frontal lobe of my brain. At the time, the focus was on the visible damage—the fracture, the swelling, and the immediate physical trauma. The deeper injury, the one inside my skull, went unnoticed.
Comprehensive scans were not done, neurological exams were limited, and the possibility of a frontal-lobe injury was never raised. It wasn’t properly diagnosed until 2023. That medical oversight caused serious damage to my mental health and led to my bipolar type-1 diagnosis.
Bipolar disorder comes with its own defense system. Denial. When you’re manic, you don’t think you’re sick. You think everyone else is overreacting. You feel like you’re seeing the world more clearly than ever, when in reality you’re losing your grip entirely.
Once people label you as “crazy,” you feel as if you cannot contribute anything meaningful to the world. It’s easy for people to joke and laugh it off when in fact this is a very serious debilitating disease you can die from. According to the World Health Organization and Cambridge University, people with bipolar disorder have a life expectancy that is shortened by ten to fifteen years on average, and a 2x-3x higher all-cause mortality rate than the general population. This is on par with severe heart disease, type 1 diabetes, HIV, and cancer - all lethal and fatal if left untreated.
The scariest thing about this disorder is how persuasive it is when it tells you: You don’t need help. It makes you blind, but convinced you have insight. You feel powerful, certain, unstoppable.
I lost touch with reality. Things got worse the longer I ignored the problem. I said and did things I deeply regret. Some of the people I love the most, I treated the worst. You endured fear, confusion, humiliation, and the exhaustion of trying to have someone who was, at times, unrecognizable. Looking back, I became detached from my true self.
In that fractured state, I gravitated toward the most destructive symbol I could find, the swastika, and even sold T-shirts bearing it. One of the difficult aspects of having bipolar type-1 are the disconnected moments - many of which I still cannot recall - that led to poor judgment and reckless behavior that oftentimes feels like an out-of-body-experience. I regret and am deeply mortified by my actions in that state, and am committed to accountability, treatment, and meaningful change. It does not excuse what I did though. I am not a Nazi or an antisemite. I love Jewish people.
To the black community - which held me down through all of the highs and lows and the darkest of times. The black community is, unquestionably, the foundation of who I am. I am so sorry to have let you down. I love us.
In early 2025, I fell into a four-month long manic episode of psychotic, paranoid and impulsive behavior that destroyed my life. As the situation became increasingly unsustainable, there were times I didn’t want to be here anymore.
Having bipolar disorder is notable state of constant mental illness. When you go into a manic episode, you are ill at that point. When you are not in an episode, you are completely ‘normal’. And that’s when the wreckage from the illness hits the hardest. Hitting rock bottom a few months ago, my wife encouraged me to finally get help.
I have found comfort in Reddit forums of all places. Different people speak of being in manic or depressive episodes of a similar nature. I read their stories and realized that I was not alone. It’s not just me who ruins their entire life once a year despite taking meds every day and being told by the so-called best doctors in the world that I am not bipolar, but merely experiencing “symptoms of autism.”
My words as a leader in my community have global impact and influence. In my mania, I lost complete sight of that.
As I find my new baseline and new center through an effective regime of medication, therapy, exercise, and clean living, I have newfound, much-needed clarity. I am pouring my energy into positive, meaningful art: music, clothing, design, and other new ideas to help the world.
I’m not asking for sympathy, or a free pass, though I aspire to earn your forgiveness. I write today simply to ask for your patience and understanding as I find my way home.”
With love,
Ye
So, all the people in his life are going to be appropriate and make sure he removes himself from celebrity, stays consistent with treating his serious medical conditions, and won’t be encouraging him to go off his meds to make another album, right?
Capitalism is when your client’s crashouts and post-mortem sales are a goldmine.
l’m not asking for sympathy, or a free pass, though I aspire to earn your forgiveness. I write today simply to ask for your patience and understanding as I find my way home.
This is the only part that matters. If he follows through than great. If he doesn’t, well…
The rest of the apology seems like a well crafted PR statement to disregard damage that has already been done. It’s light on the “what I’m going to do to overcome this” and heavy on excuses.
Has he pulled his HH video from Roman Numeral Ten (formerly Twitter) yet?
Is it available on anything officially ye or Yeezy? It’s not on his main Twitter account
Idk. Truth be told i was never on Twitter (now formerly) nor a fan of Kanye’s work.
“I have found comfort in reddit forums of all places.” Oh no, Kanye, abort! It’s gonna happen again! Join Hexbear!
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Incoming racist anti China/Russia screed
If Kanye joins hexbear I will endorse a one day return of TC69
Sorry I deleted her account, at her request, so I’ll take her place
Speaking to the Jews through an ad on the WSJ.
His antisemitism definitely is cured /s
I like how it’s somehow more antisemitic than posting it on Stormfront. It’s the kind of thing you wouldn’t write in a novel because it’s too cartoonish.
I’m out of the loop, might someone explain?
I’m insinuating that he published in WSJ because of the Jewish bankers trope.
Jewish bankers/financiers read wall street journal
This is just sad.
yeah he’s gonna be quoting mein kampf again in 3 months
I have found comfort in Reddit forums of all places.
parody writes itself lmao
Kanye go on hexbear
I mean r/adhdmemes being too relatable is what made me go get a diagnosis
let’s hear what he thinks about what’s happening in occupied Palestine
Let’s not hear what he thinks. Stepping back from the spotlight to avoid ego driven mania is maybe best for him.
His text to Milo Yiannopoulos where he calls him a zionist, I don’t think he actually cares about Palestine though. Someone asked him about it and in that exchange he just said “kids in chicago die every day” and left it at that. What no intersectionality does to a mf.
I hope he gets better, that’s all. He absolutely needs to fully withdraw from public life and move to New Mexico for a while though.
If Kanye wants professional help (he could afford it). I would assume he needs at least a couple of years to recover from whatever state he is in . If he really wants help that is.
If this statement is to be believed, it sounds like he has been receiving professional help for years, but has been misdiagnosed repeatedly. I also doubt we had nearly the understanding of brain injuries in 2003 that we do now, but I’m no expert.
I’ve been through medical mismanagement myself and it makes me sad for him as a fellow human being if that is the case, even if he is a loathsome scumbag.
As someone who has skeletons of being a antisemite chud in the past in my closet, I want to say good, turn over a new leaf, because I did. BUT I remain skeptical if he will, put your money where your mouth is and follow through.
I’ve known many bipolar people in my life. They can become intolerable monsters in their manic phase. But not one of them turned into a Nazi.
At the start of the Gaza genocide, seeing my own people getting massacred on a daily basis, I was extremely close to falling down that hole, and to the best of my knowledge I have no mental conditions. I was saved by this community, it helped me understand a lot of what I was seeing.
I had severe outbursts, never violent, but started many arguments with my partner, who is Jewish. Rants that were never coherent, made no sense, but I was so angry and was filled with so much grief that I made them make sense to myself.
When this all happened to Kanye, I didn’t care that much, I still kinda don’t? I was more upset, not with him, but with the fact that he had contracts ended, bank accounts closed, and was depicted as a devil in the media. Where was this same backlash from these industries when genocidal zionists say the same shit about Palestinians, or any other minority group? The lead singer of Disturbed signed literal bombs that drop on kids heads, Amy Schumer, Jerry Seinfeld. They all backed an ongoing genocide, dehumanized an entire people, conjured up lies for their followers, yet they all seem to have received praise for their bravery while Kanye was blackballed from the industry.
All racism should be dealt with, but in the current order, racism is only dealt with on a social level, not a systematic level, why the sudden change for Kanye? No celebrity who said disgusting words about arabs, black people, latinos, indians, or asians had their bank accounts closed or lost their incomes. If they did, they just grifted towards the right and made even more money than they were originally receiving.
I wasn’t invested in all the controversy, but I saw this text he posted from his personal trainer after his first outburst and it was shocking to see. What kind of person would make threats like this to their own boss? I’m not justifying what he said at all, but if I were in his mental state, this kind of text would only solidify my beliefs.
I don’t care about that Nazi
There’s a good FD Signifier video on how he was never really an ally, even after his “george bush doesn’t care about black people” fiasco.
All vibes-based, no real thought or theory applied when he tried to talk about issues black people faced in America. I’m not saying celebrities should have a whole plan when they bring awareness to issues, but at least show some investment in this subject you say you care about. Elevate voices of experts in this field you think you care about.
Instead of saying “slavery was a choice” to a crowd of people, why not co-host an activist for black liberation and have THEM talk? Surely they would know more about this issue than you do, but you’d rather make a fool of yourself.
Anyone surrounding themselves with “yes-men” who agree with every batshit take you say would probably be damaging to your psyche, now we have AI that can do the same thing for everyone, isn’t that great!
Well written response. Hope it isn’t all just PR. Skeptical that he will change or put in the work to change, but even so, his social circle of enablers needs to change most of all. Until then, I don’t know how he thinks he will regain the trust of anyone.
yeah like if he’s still hanging around with Fuentes then this bullshit is just insulting
Talk is cheap, we’ve seen how he behaves. Let’s see if he keeps hanging out with Trump, Fuentes, and other white supremacists, and we’ll see.
There’s going to be a lot of empty repentance in the next few years, as MAGAs see the writing on the wall, and try to avoid retribution for their treason. Until proven otherwise, he’s still just another lying MAGA trying to save his ass.
Considering his solution is “finding comfort in reddit threads” I give it a month before he falls down another fascist rabbit hole.
A month is generous tbh
Wasnt he hanging out with Nazis like a week ago? I find it hard to believe he’s had such a complete change of heart so suddenly.
I hope he withdraws and gets help.
He was with nick fuentes, IIRC. I don’t know how he could do a complete 180 like this so soon after all the shit he pulled, but he is also unwell. I won’t try to shit on him too much for trying to change, but I also have doubts on this lasting lol.
He does need serious help, and people to ground him to reality. If I said the shit he was spewing I’d get hit in the mouth by everyone close to me, everyone should have friends that can hold them accountable.
