Ye’s wife, Bianca Censori, repeatedly “tried to get out of” their widely polarising marriage before he entered rehab in recent months, according to a new report.
The Yeezy architectural designer “had been very unhappy in their marriage for a while and tried to get out a number of times,” an insider told People.
Censori and the Heartless rapper – once known as Kanye West but now legally known as Ye – wed on the heels of his November 2022 divorce from Kim Kardashian.
The New York Daily News has reached out to a rep for Censori for comment.
The latest insight comes amid discourse over the Grammy winner’s apology last week for years of antisemitic and racist behaviour.
In an open letter, full-page ad in The Wall Street Journal on Jan 26, Ye said he wasn’t trying to excuse what he did, but traced his behaviour back to a brain injury he sustained in a 2002 car accident. He claimed the neurological damage “went unnoticed” until 2023.
“That medical oversight caused serious damage to my mental health and led to my bipolar type-1 diagnosis,” he wrote, saying the illness sent him into a “fractured state” that led to “poor judgment and reckless behaviour.”
He added that after a “four-month-long manic episode” in 2025, Censori encouraged him to finally seek professional help. Ye subsequently told Vanity Fair that he ended up in “a rehab facility in Switzerland” following a “deep depressive episode.”
“These remorseful feelings were so heavy on my heart and weighing on my spirit,” Ye told the magazine. “I owe a huge apology once again for everything that I said that hurt the Jewish and Black communities in particular. All of it went too far. I look at wreckage of my episode and realise that this isn’t who I am.”
Ye’s longtime manager, John Monopoly, told People that he’s now “in a great place and taking accountability for the things he says and does.”
The latest remarks to People come nearly a year after speculation swirled that Ye and Censori were on the brink of divorce following yet another one of the rapper’s antisemitic rants on social media.
Within days, he began selling swastika T-shirts on his Yeezy website after reportedly paying US$8mil (RM31.5mil) for a bizarre Super Bowl ad directing people to the site.
Despite Ye then releasing a song seemingly confirming his split from Censori, multiple sightings appeared to show that they had reconciled. – New York Daily News/Tribune News Service
