Kanye West ‘is in the middle of a serious bipolar episode’
Kanye West ‘is in the middle of a serious bipolar episode and his family are very concerned for him’ following controversial Forbes interview and decision to run for president
By Rebecca Davison for MailOnline
Published: 05:27 EDT, 9 July 2020 | Updated: 11:19 EDT, 9 July 2020
Kanye West is ‘in the middle of a serious bipolar episode’, leaving his superstar family ‘very concerned’.
The rapper, 43, took part in a controversial Forbes interview on Wednesday in which he slammed Planned Parenthood as an organization run by ‘white supremacists to do the Devil’s work’.
TMZ claims the father-of-four, who is running for president, gets a serious episode around once a year and this one has resulted in his decision-making being impacted.
Worries: Kanye West ‘is in the middle of a serious bipolar episode and his family are concerned for him’ following his Forbes interview and decision to run for president (file photo)
The site reports: ‘Kanye announced he’s running for president via Twitter over the weekend, and also did a rambling interview with Forbes … which drew harsh criticism, confusion and concern.
‘Our sources say his family and those close to him are worried, but they believe things will stabilize as they have in the past.
‘The problem here, is that Kanye’s proclamations are causing problems.’
MailOnline has contacted a spokesperson for Kanye West for comment.
Kanye’s Forbes interview saw him drop his support for Trump, reveal his political party is called The Birthday Party and discuss anti-vaccination views.’
In 2018, Kanye revealed he was not taking medication for bipolar because it ‘stifles his creativity,’ a year after his diagnosis.
Change: Kanye’s Forbes interview saw him drop his support for Trump and discuss anti-vaxx views’ (pictured in the Oval Office in 2018)
The performer told David Letterman that he feels discriminated against because of his mental health issues.
Kanye said: ‘I can just tell you what I’m feeling at the time. I feel a heightened connection with the universe when I’m ramping up.
‘It’s a health issue, this is a sprained brain, like a sprained ankle. When someone has a sprained ankle, you’re not going to push on him more. With us, once our brain gets to a point of spraining, people do everything to make it worse,
‘They do everything possible. They got us to that point and they do everything to make it worse.’
Kanye can sometimes experience psychosis during periods of severe mania, in which he feels hyper-paranoia and believes everyone is out to get him.
He described the episodes to Letterman in detail.
Kanye took to Twitter on Thursday morning to declare that six month fetuses are ‘souls’ that ‘deserve to live’ in a now deleted tweet
He said: ‘You have this moment [where] you feel everyone wants to kill you. You pretty much don’t trust anyone.
‘When you’re in this [episode] state, you’re hyper-paranoid about everything. Everyone – this is my experience, other people have different experiences – everyone now is an actor. Everything’s a conspiracy.
‘You feel the government is putting chips in your head. You feel you’re being recorded. You feel all these things.’
On Thursday morning, Kanye posted and deleted a pro-life tweet saying calling six-month fetuses ‘souls’ that ‘deserve to live’.
Disagreement: The controversial rapper’s pro-life stance comes as he and Planned Parenthood have engaged in a fierce back-and-forth
The controversial rapper’s pro-life stance comes as he and Planned Parenthood have engaged in a fierce back-and-forth after he claimed it was an organization run by ‘white supremacists to do the Devil’s work’.
He shared a screenshot of a Google search, asking: ‘What does a 6 month fetus look like?’
Included in the grab was a brief WebMd excerpt detailing the growth and development during the second trimester.
‘These souls deserve to live,’ the former-Trump fan declared in his tweet.
While the tweet has since been deleted, many have shared screengrabs of the post and have voiced their annoyance at Kanye’s declaration.
Viral: While the tweet has since been deleted, many have shared screengrabs of the post and have voiced their annoyance at Kanye’s declaration
Kanye made inflammatory remarks about Planned Parenthood in his interview with Forbes Magazine, where he also states that he is ‘pro-life/ because he’s ‘following the word of the bible.’
Nia Martin-Robinson, who is Director of Black Leadership and Engagement at Planned Parenthood, rebuked the star, calling his claims ‘offensive’ and ‘infantilizing’ in a statement obtained by DailyMail.com.
‘Black women are free to make our own decisions about our bodies and pregnancies, and want and deserve to have access to the best medical care available. Any insinuation that abortion is Black genocide is offensive and infantilizing,’ Nia’s statement began.
‘The real threat to Black communities’ safety, health, and lives stems from lack of access to quality, affordable health care, police violence and the criminalization of reproductive health care by anti-abortion opposition.”
Nia added, ‘At Planned Parenthood, we trust and we stand with Black women who have, and continue to lead the charge when it comes to the health, rights, and bodily autonomy of those in their communities.’
Planned Parenthood also pointed out in response that it is not the first time Kanye has made headlines for ‘parroting factually incorrect, right-wing talking points on reproductive health care’ as last year he made the ‘false equivalency’ between Plan B and abortion.
Meanwhile, back in 2017, Kanye’s wife Kim Kardashian West met with Sue Dunlap, the president and chief executive of Planned Parenthood Los Angeles in an episode of Keeping Up With The Kardashians, in order for her to form an opinion on the organization and its services.
‘The perception of Planned Parenthood is that it is an abortion clinic; that is nothing what it is like,’ enthused Kim, 39, in the episode, praising the group, while her sister Khloe stated that she was pro-choice.
Kim added: ‘Hearing that first hand [women’s stories] really made it real for me.’ She later posted about the experience on Instagram saying she stood with Planned Parenthood.
‘My sisters and I visited Planned Parenthood recently and learned that the House of Representatives forced through a bill that strips health care coverage from millions of people and raises health care costs, including Planned Parenthood patients,’ she wrote.
Adding: ‘They are such an amazing place that provides so much to so many! #istandwithpp.’
Kanye has also received a huge backlash for revealing his anti-vaccine stance, telling Forbes: ‘It’s so many of our children that are being vaccinated and paralyzed… So when they say the way we’re going to fix COVID is with a vaccine, I’m extremely cautious.’
The rapper also claimed that he had COVID-19 in February this year and took hot showers and watched instructional videos to treat himself. He then referred to any potential COVID vaccine being a ‘mark of the beast.’
Advocate: In 2017, Kim and her sisters Khloe and Kourtney visited Planned Parenthood Los Angeles and she later endorsed the organization saying ‘I stand with #PP’
