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Watch Kanye West storm out of Piers Morgan chat as he's grilled on 'racist' tweet

Kanye West's explosive interview with Piers Morgan airs tonight on TalkTV, here's a first look inside some of the wildest moments.

Ye storms out while defending his anti-Semitic tweet in the bombshell programme which also sees him discuss his relationship with ex-wife Kim Kardashian and doubles down on his questioning around the circumstances of George Floyd's death.

Viewers will get to watch the moment he walked out of the interview after refusing to apologise for his controversial message on Twitter – all before returning to the conversation before issuing a grovelling apology.

The Bound 2 rapper opens the show admitting why he accepted Piers' interview requesting, slamming "censored" American media.

The interview airs on TalkTV tonight at 8pm (TalkTV)

"It feels like an episode of Black Mirror a lot of times," he said. "So, I've put myself across the line to the point of no return, saying 'hey, I know they're going to say whatever they want about me'.

"When I bring up the truth, they're going to say you didn't get enough sleep, it's because of your health. They're going to call me names for my truth."

When asked if he was 'sad' he's now divorced from ex-wife Kim, he claimed "we'll always be together".

Ye added: "Yeah, there's no person that you'll ever get with that will influence her more than God and then her priest on Earth, which was me.

"Kim to you know, as a billionaire mother, a lawyer, and a mother of four Jew, black children - to do covers, like 'Interview,' and that's what happens when they take the dads out the home and that's what they've been doing in the ‘hood. They take the fathers, and the leaders, out of the homes."

Ye says he will always love and always protect Kim (TalkTV/ Piers Morgan Uncensored)

He continued: "I may be divorced on paper but I'm not divorced of the idea of being the protector.

"Her name is no longer West. And my name is now only Ye. If we were ever to be together again, what would our name be? Kimye? I will love her for life, and oddly enough I will protect her."

Talking of his 'White Lives Matter' stunts, which include wearing t-shirts to Paris Fashion Week and to his daughter North's basketball game.

He explained: "There's people who are saying right there in fashion week, 'when are you going home? I’m so afraid' … I'm not going to cancel myself.

"I'm going to keep on delivering what I feel, because guess what? It's very split opinions, by the way.

"My dad loved the White Lives Matter T shirt because what audacity does a black man have to wear the exact same T shirt that a white man could wear? You know, my dad was a Black Panther."

Kanye recently wore a 'White Lives Matter' T-shirt (Instagram)
He wore it at his Yeezy show at Paris Fashion Week (Pichichipixx / SplashNews.com)

Piers later quizzes Ye on his controversial comments about George Floyd's death – he questioned what George's cause of death was and the coroner's views.

He asked the TalkTV host: "Do you have friends that were killed by police officers? Do you have friends that were locked up? Do you have people aborting half your race?

"No. So I am the black person with the black experience that's worth $11 billion. And as the most influential person on the planet, I am questioning it."

Ye went on to say: "And I have a right to question it… You can't tell me with your accent that, me as an American, Jew, black person, that I cannot question that death."

Kanye is being sued for $250m by George's family (TalkTV)

Speaking of George's family, who are suing him for $250million after his comments, he said: "Well, anybody who loses a loved one, my heart goes out to them, any race.

"My heart goes out to the pain of that."

Later, Piers quizzed Kanye on his anti-Semitic Tweet in which he said he was going to "go death con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE".

He was challenged by Piers repeatedly about his use of language, following which Kanye declared abruptly: “Interview adjourned. Love you,” before walking off.

After a few minutes of discussion, he eventually sat back down to continue the interview.

At one point, Kanye stormed out of the interview with Piers (TalkTV)

Because of his comments, Kanye was banned from social media sites Twitter and Instagram.

Meta, which owns Instagram, confirmed to The Mirror they had "deleted content from @kanyewest" for violating their policies. They also placed a restriction on his account.

He said: "I will say I'm sorry for the people I hurt with the 'death con', with the confusion, I feel like I caused hurt and confusion and I am sorry for the families of the people who had nothing to do with the trauma that I had been through.

"And that I used my platform where you say, I hurt people, and I was hurt."

Also in the interview, Kanye admits talking to former US president Donald Trump about the ordeal, having been banned from social media himself.

Donald and Kanye reportedly discussed being banned (AFP via Getty Images)

Kanye said: "Actually, I was talking to Trump a couple of days ago, and he was like, I'm not going to do his voice right…but he was saying…’You know, I had 277 million followers and the next day I had nothing’ and that related to you know.

"Mark Zuckerberg - Meta, you know, Mark Zuckerberg thinks he is the government.

"These tech companies feel they're more powerful than the US Government to the point of actually kicking the actual President of the United States off of an American social media platform. This is the world we live in."

On freedom of speech, Kanye says: "So whether you agree with me or not, I believe people are going to feel the fact that someone is brave enough to say something.

"Every day I do five things that people have been historically killed for. Every day."

Kanye says he has received death threats (London Entertainment / Ricardo Makyn / SplashNews.com)

He also opens up about receiving death threats, adding: "Let's go back to Trump running for office, back in 2015… Everyone that was around me and my industry, in the entertainment industry, told me that my life would be over, I would be on the wrong side of history.

"I've even had threats to my life for wearing the Trump hat! And it even ended up in - you know, destroying my family, and also making it where I have to raise my children differently because I actually am a person that's classified as black, you know, I classify myself as Jew.

"But a person is classified, that has been given that title in America, as black, in America that I'm supposed to stay in a block of a vote.

"You never heard the term white vote. So why is your term black vote? How's that? Okay, it sounds just as racist as a black drinking fountain."

Watch Piers Morgan Uncensored's Kanye 'Ye' West special tonight on TalkTV at 8pm.

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