After Ye pulled out a full-page newspaper ad to apologize for his previous antisemitic comments, the rapper is doubling down and attempting to assure the public that it's not a PR stunt.
Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, said in a series of emailed statements to Vanity Fair, published Tuesday, Jan. 27, that his apology letter to the Black and Jewish communities was not a part of a strategy ahead of his new studio album, "Bully."
Instead, the rapper insisted that "these remorseful feelings were so heavy on my heart and weighing on my spirit" and that he owed "a huge apology once again for everything that I said that hurt the Jewish and Black communities in particular."
"I look at wreckage of my episode and realize that this isn't who I am," Ye told Vanity Fair.
In the apology letter featured in a Wall Street Journal advertisement Monday, Jan. 26, Ye said his mental health history – including a diagnosis of bipolar disorder and a four-month manic episode that took place in the first half of 2025 – was what allegedly fueled his "reckless" behavior.
