Kanye West, now known as Ye, has paid for a full-page advertisement in The Wall Street Journal to apologise for past antisemitic remarks.
The letter was titled “To Those I’ve Hurt.” In it, the rapper said he regrets his actions and rejected antisemitic beliefs.
“I am not a Nazi or an antisemite,” Ye wrote. “I love Jewish people.”
Ye said his behaviour was linked to mental health struggles. He said these issues were caused by a brain injury from a car accident in 2002.
According to him, the injury was not diagnosed until 2023. He said it later led to bipolar type-1 disorder.
“One of the difficult aspects of having bipolar type-1 are the disconnected moments,” he wrote. “I regret and am deeply mortified by my actions.”
Ye first faced major backlash in 2022 after making antisemitic comments in public interviews. One of those appearances was on Alex Jones’s Infowars, where he praised Adolf Hitler and denied the Holocaust.
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After the remarks, companies including Adidas, Gap and Universal Music Group cut ties with him.
Despite apologising in 2023, Ye again drew criticism in 2025. He sold swastika-branded T-shirts and released a song titled Heil Hitler, which was later banned in Germany.
Ye said a long manic episode earlier this year pushed him to seek help.
“In early 2025, I fell into a four-month manic episode that destroyed my life,” he wrote.
He said his wife, Bianca Censori, encouraged him to get treatment.
Ye also apologised to the Black community for past remarks.
“The Black community is the foundation of who I am,” he wrote. “I am so sorry to have let you down.”
He said he is now receiving treatment and focusing on what he called “positive, meaningful art.”
“I’m not asking for sympathy,” Ye wrote. “I’m asking for patience and understanding.”
Ye’s representatives did not respond to requests for comment at the time of publication.