After years of ups and downs, Kanye West is issuing an apology via an ad in the Wall Street Journal. "In early 2025, I fell into a four-month long manic episode of psychotic, paranoid and impulsive behavior that destroyed my life," West, 48, began in the open letter shared on Monday, January 26. "As the situation became increasingly unsustainable, there were times I didn't want to be here anymore." West said that he's in a "constant mental illness" because of his bipolar disorder. (The rapper went public with the diagnosis in 2016.