"I gravitated toward the most destructive symbol I could find, the swastika."
"I lost touch with reality. Things got worse the longer I ignored the problem,"
"Some of the people I love the most, I treated the worst," he continued. "You endured fear, confusion, humiliation, and the exhaustion of trying to love someone who was at times, unrecognizable. Looking back, I"
Ye placed a full-page Wall Street Journal advertisement apologizing for social media attacks on Jewish people and for publicly embracing Nazism. Ye attributed some behavior to a 2002 car accident that caused a frontal-lobe injury and to a bipolar type-1 diagnosis. Ye said he gravitated toward the swastika, lost touch with reality, and deeply regretted things he said and did. Ye previously praised Adolf Hitler, embraced white supremacy, threatened violence toward Jewish people in late 2022, sold a swastika-bearing T-shirt in 2025, released a single titled "Heil Hitler," and faced a lawsuit alleging he told a former Jewish employee he was a "Nazi."
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