Kanye West Reveals Opioids Addiction After Lipo
In his explosive interview with TMZ yesterday, Kanye West revealed that days before his 2016 hospitalization, he was addicted to opioids following liposuction surgery, which he says he took because he didn't want the media to call him "fat."
He explained to TMZ's Harvey Levin and Charles Latibeaudiere: "I was addicted to opioids. Two days after I got off of opioids, I was in the hospital."
Then, he got up and explained the full situation to the TMZ newsroom:
"Everyone listen to this, please. Two days before I was in the hospital, I was on opioids. I was addicted to opioids. I had plastic surgery because I was trying to look good for y'all. I got liposuction because I didn't want y'all to call me fat like you called Rob [Kardashian] at the wedding and made him fly home before me and Kim got married. I didn't want y'all to call me fat, so I got liposuction, right?
"And they gave me opioids, right? And I started taking two of them and driving to work on the opioids, right?"
West added that one of his friends expressed concerns on his usage, so he stopped. But doctors prescribed him an even higher dosage after his hospital stay.
"There was talks amongst my camp like, 'Ye's popping pills.' So when he handed it to me, he said, 'You know used to killed genius, right?' So I didn't take it.
"Two days later, I'm in the hospital. I was taking two pills a day at that time. When I left the hospital, how many pills you think I was given? Seven. I went from taking two pills to taking seven.
"So the reason why I dropped those tweets and everything 'cause I was drugged the f*ck out, bro. And I'm not drugged out. These drugs that they want me to take three of a day, I take one a week, maybe, two a week.
"Y'all had me scared of myself, of my vision. So I took some pills so I wouldn't go to the hospital and prove everyone right."
West was hospitalized in November 2016 after having a mental breakdown, which he said was caused by fear and stress, lacking radio play for his album The Life of Pablo following "the Taylor Swift moment," and his wife Kim's robbery in Paris.
Watch the full segment below.
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