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Casey Cooper-Fiske

Kanye West says he is not a Nazi and that car crash caused bipolar diagnosis

Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, has said he is not a Nazi (Jonathan Brady/PA) - (PA Archive)

The rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, has denied he is a Nazi and claimed that a car crash 25 years ago led to him being diagnosed as bipolar.

In a full-page advert he had taken out in US newspaper The Wall Street Journal, the 48-year-old said he was not asking for “sympathy or a free pass” and said he wanted to earn forgiveness from the public.

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