Kanye West’s wife, Bianca Censori, is opening up about her time at a rehab facility in Spain.
“I needed to work on myself because I had patterns of things that I would do that would not just hurt me but would hurt the people around me,” Censori, 31, told Vanity Fair in a profile published Friday, February 6. “I put a lot of pressure on other people being the reason for my happiness or the reason for my unhappiness.”
She continued, “I would blame someone else if I wasn’t feeling good. [Rehab] changed my life. How was I a completely different person? I was very emotionally dysregulated, and I can function now.”
Before entering treatment, Censori said that she was self-medicating with benzodiazepines. West, 48, ultimately paid for her treatment.
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Censori recalled telling her husband, “Anything that you have ever bought me does not equate to how important this was to me,” adding that the price was “ridiculous.”
Since leaving treatment, Censori claimed that she’s been “channeling messages from the dead.”
“I’m convinced that people do weird things with astrology. I like all sorts of woo-woo, occult-y stuff,” she told Vanity Fair. “I’ll do the same thing over and over and over again.”
Censori and West have been married since 2022. Amid a challenging period in their marriage, the rapper also entered a treatment program in Switzerland last year amid his battle with bipolar disorder. (West revealed his diagnosis in 2016.)
“All I can do is always just be there and help,” Censori tearfully told the outlet. “This year was a lot like doing CPR for months. I have the love and empathy for him to be able to do that, and I understand that the world doesn’t.”
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West, for his part, has credited Censori with inspiring him to seek treatment.
“In early 2025, I fell into a four-month long manic episode of psychotic, paranoid and impulsive behavior that destroyed my life,” he wrote in an open letter published in The Wall Street Journal last month. “As the situation became increasingly unsustainable, there were times I didn’t want to be here anymore.”
West continued, “When you go into a manic episode, you are ill at that point. When you are not in an episode, you are completely ‘normal,’ and that’s when the wreckage from the illness hits the hardest.”
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West further apologized to “those I’ve hurt” with his actions in manic periods.
“Bipolar disorder comes with its own defense system. Denial. When you’re manic, you don’t think you’re sick. You think everyone else is overreacting,” he added. “You feel like you’re seeing the world more clearly than ever, when in reality you’re losing your grip entirely. … Things got worse the longer I ignored the problem. I said and did things I deeply regret.”
West concluded, “Some of the people I love the most, I treated the worst. You endured fear, confusion, humiliation, and the exhaustion of trying to have someone who was, at times, unrecognizable. Looking back, I became detached from my true self.”
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