Kanye West Says Bianca Censori Knew He Didn’t Have Bipolar Disorder: ‘She’s Educated’
Kanye “Ye” West and Bianca Censori made headlines for their daring Grammy Awards stunt. The couple tied the knot in December 2022, but little is known about their dynamic. West and Censori have spent a lot of 2024 into 2025 in Tokyo, Japan, and they continue to mystify their fans and followers. After the Grammys, West mentioned how Censori helped him attain an autism diagnosis, as he was initially diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Here’s what he explained.
Kanye West said Bianca Censori pushed him to get his bipolar disorder reevaluated
Kanye West spoke about his life, music, and mental health with Justin Laboy. The rapper was put in psychiatric care in 2016 and diagnosed with bipolar disorder afterward. In 2025, he explained that he was misdiagnosed. He told Laboy that Bianca Censori pushed him to get his mental health reevaluated, as she didn’t believe he had bipolar disorder. As a result, West says he received an autism diagnosis.
“They call it specifically bipolar. They put that on me. I said it, I put it out,” West explained of his initial diagnosis. “… I went to this doctor, one that worked with Justin Bieber. … I’m not even gonna name the names. My wife took me, because she said, ‘Something about your personality doesn’t feel like it’s bipolar. I’ve seen bipolar before.’ … And come to find out, it’s really a case of autism that I have.”
West noted that many of his hyper-fixations are a result of his autism. “And autism takes you to a Rain Man thing, where you’re like, I’m gonna wear this Trump hat, because I like Trump in general, and when people tell you to not do it, you just get on that one point,” he continued. “And that’s my problem when fans tell me to do my album a certain way. I’ll do it the opposite way.”
Laboy asked West if he continues to take his bipolar medication.
“I haven’t taken the medication since I found out that it wasn’t bipolar,” West admitted, though he didn’t seem fully against taking medication if needed. “… It’s finding stuff that doesn’t block the creativity, obviously. That’s what I bring to the world.”
Kanye West described feeling ‘hyper-paranoid about everything’ before his bipolar diagnosis
Kanye West was hospitalized in 2016 for a “psychiatric emergency” after canceling tour dates and ranting about politics. He later talked about the incident to David Letterman.
“You have this moment [where] you feel everyone wants to kill you,” West explained of a manic episode in bipolar disorder, according to CNN. “You pretty much don’t trust anyone.”
“When you’re in this state, you’re hyper-paranoid about everything, everyone,” he continued. “This is my experience; other people have different experiences. Everyone now is an actor. Everything’s a conspiracy. You feel the government is putting chips in your head. You feel you’re being recorded; you feel all these things.”
West said he felt “happy” to experience the moment when he was handcuffed, drugged, and separated from everyone he knew, as he could “change” after “that moment.”
Kim Kardashian posted about her then-husband’s initial diagnosis in 2020
Kim Kardashian and Kanye West were married from 2014 to 2022. In 2020, she addressed West’s erratic behavior on Instagram.
“As many of you know, Kanye has bipolar disorder,” she posted, according to the BBC. “Anyone who has this or has a loved one in their life who does knows how incredibly complicated and painful it is to understand.”
“People who are unaware or far removed from this experience can be judgemental and not understand that the individual themselves have to engage in the process of getting help no matter how hard family and friends try,” she added.
Kardashian calls West a “brilliant but complicated person who on top of the pressures of being an artist and a black man, who experienced the painful loss of his mother, and has to deal with the pressure and isolation that is heightened by his bipolar disorder.”
Ultimately, she hopes to help end the stigma surrounding mental health with her post. “We as a society talk about giving grace to the issue of mental health as a whole, however, we should also give it to the individuals who are living with it in times when they need it the most,” she continued.
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