It’s no secret that Kanye West has mental health issues. As a diagnosed bipolar with Narcissistic Personality Disorder or NPD, his mental health and episodes are periodically highlighted across news channels and tabloids alike. However, over the last few days, Kanye’s mental health issues have escalated to verbally and emotionally abusive tendencies, aimed towards Kim Kardashian, his estranged wife, and her new boyfriend, comedian and SNL writer and cast member Pete Davison.
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It’s no secret that Kanye West has mental health issues. As a diagnosed bipolar with Narcissistic Personality Disorder or NPD, his mental health and episodes are periodically highlighted across news channels and tabloids alike. However, over the last few days, Kanye’s mental health issues have escalated to verbally and emotionally abusive tendencies, aimed towards Kim Kardashian, his estranged wife, and her new boyfriend, comedian and SNL writer and cast member Pete Davison.
Kanye has been threatening Pete with intimidation and calls for violence. He has been harassing and threatening Kim and his children, and creating a very hostile and dangerous environment for all of them by encouraging his followers to scream at Pete Davidson if they see him in public.
“IF ANYONE LOVES ME AND MY FAMILY IF YOU SEE SKETE IN REAL LIFE SCREAM AT THE [LOSER] AT THE TOP OF YOUR LUNGS AND SAY KIMYE FOREVER,”
A little bit of background. And know, that I don’t generally follow pop culture as this is really not my interest. I’m more concerned with Kanye’s abusive behavior, but I feel some background is necessary to fully understand how sick and toxic he is. Kim filed for divorce in February 2021 citing irreconcilable differences. From then until the news broke that she and Pete were seeing each other, everything was fine. After the Pete and Kim relationship was public, Kanye began trying to reconcile their marriage, to which Kim adamantly rejected, and filed to be declared legally single. Kanye, who still a year later has not signed the divorce papers, refuses to accept the divorce, and has said he never saw the papers. He also bought the house across the street from Kim and his children to be able to keep an eye on them.
In January 2022, Kanye released a new track where he said, “God saved me from this crash, just so I can beat Pete Davidson’s ass.” That call to action sparked outrage from his followers and fans. And began what would be a very dangerous situation for Pete.
But everything erupted last weekend when Kanye really unleashed. First, he told his fans that Kid Cudi, a friend and long time collaborator, would not be featured on his new album because he was friends with quote you know who. He refers to him by the nickname Skete, which is used to demean Pete, and has publicly called him a dickhead, garbage and trash. He has posted threats of physical violence on his instagram, stating, “UPON MY WIFE’S REQUEST PLEASE NOBODY DO ANYTHING PHYSICAL TO SKETE.” And then implying that he will “handle the situations” himself as the caption to a picture from the 2001 movie Baby Boy where one man is holding the other in a chokehold.
As you can probably imagine, it’s fear-inducing to have strangers screaming at you in public, and someone threatening to “handle the situation” by implying they’re going to physically assault you, but it’s also abusive. For Kanye to be encouraging this threatening behavior is comparable to abusing someone. He is creating a very dangerous situation in which Pete could be harmed.
Abuse is a pattern of threats or violence towards someone in order to control and manipulate them. And that is exactly what this is. And in the crossfires, he is intimidating and endangering his estranged wife and children. By living across the street to watch them, and sending threatening, harassing and abusive text messages to Kim, he is sending a message that he is in control of the situation, and won’t rest until he wins.
If that doesn’t make you physically uncomfortable, I don’t know what will. He has posted private text messages to social media between him and Kim and he and Pete trying to intimidate them. He is love bombing Kim with flowers and grand romantic gestures after she has verbalized repeatedly that she is not interested in getting back together with him. This blatant disrespect of her wishes is also a form of abuse. Love bombing is a manipulative dating practice where a narcissist uses grand romantic gestures to gain the upper hand in a relationship and control their partner. They shower the person with love and attention, compliments, gifts, flattery. It looks romantic on the outside, but it’s really a way for the narcissist to manipulate the environment, to make them look like the perfect partner. It’s also a way to lure the person away from other friends, family or potential romantic interests and control their patterns and their environment.
Are we seeing a pattern here?
So, let me just check off some boxes.
If abuse is a pattern of threatening and violent behavior (physical, emotional, verbal, etc.) here is a laundry list of the abusive behaviors Kanye has exhibited in the last 5 days:
- Inciting violence against Pete Davidson by encouraging fans to scream in his face. Intimidation and Manipulation.
- Threatening to “handle the situation” with violence. Intimidation and psychological abuse.
- Moving across the street from kim and his kids. Intimidation, and psychological abuse. Imagine feeling watched all the time and trying to live your life normally. It doesn’t work.
- Love bombing Kim.
- Name calling. Verbal Abuse
- Referring to him as “Skete” instead of using his name is actually a form of verbal and sexual abuse.
- Harassing Kim and Pete via social media and text messages.
As survivors of abuse, you are justified in feeling triggered or uncomfortable hearing about and reading about his behavior. All of these behaviors are extremely toxic to Kim and Pete, and the well-fare of his children. They are all feeling overwhelmed, intimidated and scared. Although a lot of his fans are looking at what he’s doing as entertainment or justified, a lot of people are speaking out against his behaviors. Here are some tweets calling Kanye’s behavior out, and I couldn’t agree more.
“What Kanye is doing to Kim is harassment and public humiliation. The worst part is that it's happening in front of the world and people are watching it like entertainment.”
“I think many survivors will agree this [is] far from funny or entertaining. This is the escalating point to something majorly violent, Please stop encouraging Kanye. To my survivors, please detox from this if needed. This is triggering shit.”
“None of this shit is funny, as someone who deals with this, I can say it's scary, and stressful, I have sympathy for her … It's a tough choice leaving, but I'm happy she did.”
“This is terrifying for a woman. He’s threatening violence and demanding her back. This is not okay, any woman who has been in this situation and feared for her life doesn’t think it’s funny, it’s triggering and terrifying.”
“When she directly addresses him about how he’s making her feel unsafe he decides to post a screenshot and ridicule her concerns but people want to keep defending him,”
What Kim is going through is textbook harassment. It’s terrifying how he’ll dress it up as wanting to be a present father but goes on to bombard her with gifts and affection.
The way I see it, if these are behaviors he is exhibiting publicly, think of all the toxic stuff he put her through privately. Kanye is unhinged. He is abusive, manipulative and sick. His toxic behaviors need to be reprimanded because he is endangering the lives of 6 people publicly, and also is using his platform to control them. In my opinion, Kanye should be held responsible for his actions, medicated or not, because abuse is never okay. And refusing to take care of his mental health is not an excuse. His behavior landed him in this situation. Kim filed for divorce because of his toxic behaviors, and by harassing her, her children, her boyfriend and threatening and inciting violence, he is only making the situation more dangerous and toxic.
If you are experiencing similar behaviors from a friend or partner, please reach out for help. You don’t deserve to live in an environment where you are constantly in fear for your life or your mental health. You deserve to feel safe, secure, happy and peaceful in a relationship.
If you or someone you know is struggling, make a free coaching appointment with me at scheduleacallwithmarissa.com, and I’m happy to give you some resources to help you through your triggers.
Thank you so much for joining me today, and I’ll talk to you next week!
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