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Topline Musician Kanye West on Monday blamed a decades-old brain injury for his bipolar diagnosis and a series of manic episodes in which he lashed out at Jewish people, praised Hitler and sold swastika T-shirts over a yearslong period that largely derailed his career. Kanye West and Bianca Censori attend the 67th Annual GRAMMY Awards on Feb. 2, 2025 in Los Angeles. Getty Images for The Recording Academy Key Facts West, who changed his name to Ye, took out a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal Monday morning to address his years of antisemitism and asked for “patience and understanding,” claiming to be ”committed to accountability, treatment, and meaningful change.” West, who Forbes once rated a billionaire before a series of antisemitic outbursts, said he suffered a frontal-lobe brain injury after a car crash 25 years ago that “caused serious damage to my mental health and led to my bipolar type-1 diagnosis.” He said the disorder caused manic episodes in which he “said and did things I deeply regret,” including having “gravitated toward the most destructive symbol I could find, the swastika.” He specifically addressed what he called a “four-month long manic episode of psychotic, paranoid and impulsive behavior that destroyed my life” in early 2025, in which he posted dozens of antisemitic messages online and sold swastika T-shirts on his fashion brand’s website. He said he hit “rock bottom” months ago and has found comfort on Reddit forums, where he’s learned “it’s not just me who ruins their entire life once a year despite taking meds every day.” West said he is working to “find my new baseline and new center through an effective regime of medication, therapy, exercise and clean living.” Get Forbes Breaking News Text Alerts: We’re launching text message alerts so you’ll always know the…

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