"In addition to expressing a commitment to taking accountability for his statements and actions, Ye offers some additional context about the mental-health challenges he believes caused his erratic behavior. Ye has long been open about his bipolar diagnosis, though he now says that his struggle with this disease began after his famous car accident in 2002, which inspired his breakout single "Through the Wire." He says the accident "caused injury to the right frontal lobe of my brain" and that this damage went undiagnosed and untreated, leading directly to his mental-health struggles today."
""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, and unstoppable," Ye writes."
"Ye speaks specifically about a period in early 2025 when his behavior and speech were at their most incendiary. "I fell into a four-month long manic episode of psychotic, paranoid and impulsive behavior that destroyed my life," he writes. "As the situation became increasingly unsustainable, there were times I"
Ye publicly distanced himself from antisemitic rhetoric and a song titled "Heil Hitler," placing a full-page apology ad in The Wall Street Journal and stating he is "not a Nazi or antisemite." Ye acknowledged disappointment from the Black community and pledged to take accountability for his statements and actions. Ye linked erratic behavior to mental-health struggles, noting a bipolar diagnosis and claiming a 2002 car accident caused right frontal lobe injury that went undiagnosed. Ye described the disorder's persuasive danger and recounted a four-month manic episode in early 2025 that he says destroyed his life.
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