Kanye West opens up about his past addiction to opioids.
After sitting down with Charlamagne The God for an in-depth interview, Kanye West decided to stop by TMZ’s office and open up about his former opiate addiction that lead to his 2016 breakdown. West spent over a week in the hospital, for what his team called “exhaustion” at the time.
Speaking to Harvey Levin, Ye stated, “I was drugged the fuck out, bro. I was on opioids. I was addicted to opioids and two days after I got off of opioids I’m in the hospital. I had plastic surgery because I was trying to look good for y’all.”
“I got liposuction because I didn’t want y’all to call me fat like y’all called [Rob Kardashian] at the wedding and made him fly home before me and Kim got married. I didn’t want y’all to call me fat. I got liposuction and they gave me opioids and I started taking two of them and driving to work.”
“I was taking two pills a day at that time. When I left the hospital how many pills do you think I was given? Seven. I went from taking two pills to taking seven.”
West added, “The reason why I dropped those tweets and everything is because I was drugged the fuck out bro, and I’m not drugged out … these pills that they want me to take three of a day, I take one a week maybe, two a week.”
“Ya’ll had me scared of myself, of my vision, so I took some pills so I wouldn’t go the hospital and prove everyone right. We are drugged out. We are following other people’s opinions. We are controlled by the media and today it all changes.”
During the same interview, Kanye also addressed slavery, “When you hear about slavery for 400 years. For 400 years?! That sounds like a choice.” His comments caused quite an uproar, stemming him to later clarify his statement via Twitter, “To make myself clear. Of course I know that slaves did not get shackled and put on a boat by free will.”
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