Kim Kardashian and kids terrified of Kanye ‘sinking further down’ into mental illness

Kanye West is terrifying his ex, Kim Kardashian, and their children as he sinks into an abyss of mental illness, a close source tells Page Six.

It’s been another week of chaos for the troubled star, resulting in Kim, 44, calling for an emergency custody hearing after learning misogynist brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate would be present during Kanye’s visit with their eldest daughter, 11-year-old North West.

She has also been upset Kanye released a single featuring North alongside jailed Sean “Diddy” Combs, who is awaiting trial on sex crime charges, and she is poised to apply for sole custody of their four children.

“North loves him,” said the source who knows Kanye well, “I can’t speak for the other kids, but North is definitely Ye’s girl. But it must be scary for Kim.”

Kim and Kanye — who were married from 2014 to 2022 — also have son Saint, 9, daughter Chicago, 7, and son Psalm, 5.

Their split came amid one of Kanye’s earlier mental health crises. Since then they agreed to share custody, but Kim says she’s pretty much a single mom, telling iHeartRadio in September, “No matter what kind of help I have, [I’m] basically raising four kids by myself.”

Rapper turned designer Kanye, 47, has remarried Bianca Censori, spent six months of 2024 outside of the US touring the world and has been living on and off in Japan for the past few years. Multiple sources told Page Six he has not spent much time with his kids, making his recent litany of online messages about the children all the more bizarre.

Indeed, he has spent the past few days raging against “the Kardashian mob” on X and baselessly accusing Kim of being a “sex trafficker” alongside blaming Disney and Hulu for restricting his parenting.

In another rant, he accused Kim of being an “old white lady” controlling his “black children”.

Kanye – who previously changed his name to “Ye” – has previously said he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and autism, and is not properly treating his mental illness, the source confirmed, adding, “He’s obviously not taking his meds, if he was we wouldn’t be here.

“It’s not getting any better, he’s not a well person, he’s sinking further down and he’s not acting rationally. There’s so much negativity – I don’t think he can come out of this.” As Page Six previously reported, Kanye’s erratic behavior has also worsened since he landed back in Los Angeles in January, due to his use of nitrous oxide, known as ‘laughing gas’.

Kanye and Censori have spent the past few months living in hotels, we’re told, and it’s still unclear what the state of their marriage is following Censori’s various naked stunts and reports of them splitting – which sources have claimed were overhyped.

Censori, 30, has always got on well with the children, especially North, according to sources.

Last summer, insiders told us Kanye – dropped by Adidas, Gap and Balenciaga in 2022 and shunned from polite society over his still-continuing antisemitic tirades – had come up with a plan to open 100 of his own Yeezy stores globally in 30 days.

He rented a 30,000 square foot warehouse on Beverly Boulevard in LA which he planned to turn into a store, but the plan never came to fruition.

One insider familiar with Kanye’s antics told us, “Ye destroyed it – like every place he rents or owns. He painted the windows on the ceiling black so no natural light could come through, now it feels like a haunted house.

Source: https://pagesix.com/2025/03/22/celebrity-news/kim-kardashian-and-kids-terrified-of-kanye/