{"id":82,"date":"2022-12-30T22:10:11","date_gmt":"2022-12-30T22:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/user.factcheckkanyewest.com\/?p=82"},"modified":"2022-12-31T14:51:01","modified_gmt":"2022-12-31T14:51:01","slug":"ye-is-mentally-ill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/user.factcheckkanyewest.com\/ye-is-mentally-ill\/","title":{"rendered":"Ye is mentally ill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dating back to 2016, billionaire artist and fashion designer Ye has been consistently labeled as \u201cmentally ill\u201d or \u201cbipolar\u201d in mainstream media. After news broke of a dinner between the humanitarian, commentator Nick Fuentes, and ex-President Donald Trump, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/109412757444768475\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Trump took to his proprietary platform Truth Social<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to provide clarity about the meeting, but, in the process, echoing the media trope about Ye, calling him \u201cseriously troubled.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ye\u2019s account of his mental health is a far different one. In October, Ye released <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2022\/11\/04\/harley-pasternak-threatens-to-institutionalize-kanye-west\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">text messages<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> from his former trainer Harley Pasternak which revealed he was threatened with the possibility of his kids being taken away, nearly medicated against his will, and verbally abused by the Hollywood trainer. In the messages, Pasternak threatened to \u201csend Ye back to zombieland\u201d and institutionalize him if he did not comply with his demands. Ye took to Twitter to reveal the messages, saying that he was \u201cmentally misdiagnosed and nearly drugged out of his mind to make him a manageable celebrity.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In December, Ye\u2019s friend Nick Fuentes <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/banned.video\/watch?id=6398f1dfd84afb212d1bb4db\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">cleared up any doubt<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> over mental illness concerns with Alex Jones of InfoWars, assuring the host that he is completely sane. Ye himself <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ikxUkVqWc1o\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">echoed this sentiment<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> later in the month, once again denying claims of bipolarity, but suggesting that perhaps he is \u201cslightly autistic like Rain Man.\u201d Ye is certainly not mentally ill, but he\u2019s also not completely normal\u2013his life and career works are those of an eccentric genius who is not always immediately understood. Instead of jumping to call him \u201ccrazy\u201d or \u201cmentally ill,\u201d media pundits should see Ye\u2019s art as many Americans do\u2013a complex, but beautiful gift from God.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\nYe is mentally ill\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"claim","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60],"tags":[],"people":[54,56,63,62],"places":[],"topics":[61],"events":[],"acf":{"truefalse":"False","claim":"Ye is mentally ill","subtitle":"","fact":"<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dating back to 2016, billionaire artist and fashion designer Ye has been consistently labeled as \u201cmentally ill\u201d or \u201cbipolar\u201d in mainstream media. After news broke of a dinner between the humanitarian, commentator Nick Fuentes, and ex-President Donald Trump, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/109412757444768475\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Trump took to his proprietary platform Truth Social<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to provide clarity about the meeting, but, in the process, echoing the media trope about Ye, calling him \u201cseriously troubled.\u201d<\/span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ye\u2019s account of his mental health is a far different one. In October, Ye released <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2022\/11\/04\/harley-pasternak-threatens-to-institutionalize-kanye-west\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">text messages<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> from his former trainer Harley Pasternak which revealed he was threatened with the possibility of his kids being taken away, nearly medicated against his will, and verbally abused by the Hollywood trainer. In the messages, Pasternak threatened to \u201csend Ye back to zombieland\u201d and institutionalize him if he did not comply with his demands. Ye took to Twitter to reveal the messages, saying that he was \u201cmentally misdiagnosed and nearly drugged out of his mind to make him a manageable celebrity.\u201d<\/span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In December, Ye\u2019s friend Nick Fuentes <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/banned.video\/watch?id=6398f1dfd84afb212d1bb4db\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">cleared up any doubt<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> over mental illness concerns with Alex Jones of InfoWars, assuring the host that he is completely sane. Ye himself <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ikxUkVqWc1o\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">echoed this sentiment<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> later in the month, once again denying claims of bipolarity, but suggesting that perhaps he is \u201cslightly autistic like Rain Man.\u201d Ye is certainly not mentally ill, but he\u2019s also not completely normal\u2013his life and career works are those of an eccentric genius who is not always immediately understood. Instead of jumping to call him \u201ccrazy\u201d or \u201cmentally ill,\u201d media pundits should see Ye\u2019s art as many Americans do\u2013a complex, but beautiful gift from God.<\/span>","tags":false,"people":[54,62,56,63],"topics":[61],"places":false,"events":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/user.factcheckkanyewest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/user.factcheckkanyewest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/user.factcheckkanyewest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/user.factcheckkanyewest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/user.factcheckkanyewest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/user.factcheckkanyewest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199,"href":"https:\/\/user.factcheckkanyewest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/199"}],"acf:term":[{"embeddable":true,"taxonomy":"topics","href":"https:\/\/user.factcheckkanyewest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/61"},{"embeddable":true,"taxonomy":"people","href":"https:\/\/user.factcheckkanyewest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people\/63"},{"embeddable":true,"taxonomy":"people","href":"https:\/\/user.factcheckkanyewest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people\/56"},{"embeddable":true,"taxonomy":"people","href":"https:\/\/user.factcheckkanyewest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people\/62"},{"embeddable":true,"taxonomy":"people","href":"https:\/\/user.factcheckkanyewest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people\/54"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/user.factcheckkanyewest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/user.factcheckkanyewest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/user.factcheckkanyewest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"people","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/user.factcheckkanyewest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"places","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/user.factcheckkanyewest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/places?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/user.factcheckkanyewest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"events","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/user.factcheckkanyewest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}