Kanye West Blames His Bipolar Condition On His 2002 Car Crash

Kanye West says he suffered neurological harm from his 2002 automotive crash that famously left him with a damaged jaw. He mirrored on the incident throughout a prolonged apology he revealed within the newest problem of The Wall Street Journal. In doing so, West claimed that the harm went undiagnosed till 2023 and was the reason for his bipolar situation.

“Twenty-five years in the past, I used to be in a automotive accident that broke my jaw and brought on harm to the proper frontal lobe of my mind. At the time, the main target was on the seen harm—the fracture, the swelling, and the speedy bodily trauma. The deeper harm, the one inside my cranium, went unnoticed,” he wrote.

He continued: “Comprehensive scans weren’t finished, neurological exams had been restricted, and the potential for a frontal-lobe harm was by no means raised. It wasn’t correctly identified till 2023. That medical oversight brought on critical harm to my psychological well being and led to my bipolar type-1 analysis.”

After recalling the automotive crash and mind harm, West started his apology to the Jewish community for spreading fixed antisemitism during the last a number of years. “I misplaced contact with actuality,” he admitted. “Things bought worse the longer I ignored the issue. I mentioned and did issues I deeply remorse. Some of the individuals I really like probably the most, I handled the worst. You endured worry, confusion, humiliation, and the exhaustion of making an attempt to have somebody who was, at instances, unrecognizable. Looking again, I grew to become indifferent from my true self.”

“In that fractured state, I gravitated towards the most destructive symbol I could find, the swastika, and even bought T-shirts bearing it,” he additional mentioned. “One of the troublesome facets of getting bipolar type-1 are the disconnected moments – a lot of which I nonetheless can’t recall – that led to poor judgment and reckless habits that oftentimes seems like an out-of-body-experience. I remorse and am deeply mortified by my actions in that state, and am dedicated to accountability, remedy, and significant change. It doesn’t excuse what I did although. I’m not a Nazi or an antisemite. I really like Jewish individuals.”

The letter comes after West beforehand walked again his antisemitism by sitting down with Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto in November. At the time, he defined he wished to “take accountability.”