Kanye West has spent years torching his legacy, and this week's sudden, very public apology for his antisemitic rants landed with a thud that was equal parts relief, skepticism, and heartbreak. Yes, he said sorry. Yes, it was long overdue. But according to people close to him, this may not have been some spontaneous moral awakening. Sources told DailyMail.com this week that Ye's wife, Bianca Censori, has been quietly pushing him toward change for months now. Not just toward better optics, but toward medication, accountability, and pulling himself back from the edge. Good, right? Related: Do We Forgive Kanye West? Well... maybe not entirely. Ya see, some insiders aren't naïve about the timing, for one. One source flat-out admitted Kanye's apology seems tied to his desire to reenter a world that has very publicly shut him out: "I don't know if there were any financial [motivations], but I know that he felt pretty excluded. He wants to be part of the world again. He wants to participate. He's doing a concert in Mexico City in two days so he's definitely trying to get back into normal life." That sense of exile has been building for years, and fans who once defended everything began walking away. And now, with a new album dropping Friday, the optics of remorse are hard to ignore. Another insider put it bluntly when reacting to the full-page Wall Street Journal apology: "I'm sure that there is some self-promotion going on with this statement, but I'll take any sort of apology. So many people have been trying to get through to him, to show him how his beliefs and the things he said were dangerous and sinful and bigoted and wrong, so for him to acknowledge that feels huge to a lot of us." Behind the scenes, Ye's mental health has long been a factor, especially after his divorce from Kim Kardashian, who insiders say essentially acted as his lifeline for years. Friends claim his behavior worsened dramatically after the split, when no one was left to ensure he stayed on his medication. More recently, that role has reportedly been taken up, at least in part, by Bianca. Related: Kanye Surfaces At LA Comedy Show - See Him Awkwardly Get Onstage! According to one source, everything hit a breaking point around the release of his song Heil Hitler, which dropped while the couple was vacationing in Spain: "Everyone just lost it [after the Heil Hitler song]. Bianca got upset. Everyone was in agreement that they didn't want him to influence people like that." Despite public perception, sources insist Bianca isn't some silent puppet. In fact, they claim she's fiercely loyal, deeply involved, and... very much steering her own ship: "She knows what she wants. She has an agenda. She's going to do her art shows. She's actually pretty in charge." And for anyone whispering about control or coercion at Ye's hand, one insider pushed back hard: "It could even be the opposite. She's pretty strong." Whoa... Their relationship, which grew out of a professional partnership at Yeezy, is currently described by one source in-the-know as mutually intense and insular: "They have a relationship that's mutual and she likes to be naked. It's not like Kim that was more so doing her own stuff. Bianca and Ye are more together and he's not imposing anything." In his WSJ apology, Kanye blamed much of his behavior on an undiagnosed frontal-lobe injury from his 2002 car crash, claiming medical oversight led to years of mental health decline. And yet that explanation raised eyebrows among some of those who know him best. One pal said: "I'm a little skeptical. We all saw that he has manic episodes. I don't really know the medical [explanation], [but] it's definitely useful to say that. It's an easy way to get out." Another longtime friend added context without fully dismissing Kanye's claim: "I'm not Ye's doctor, so I can't really confirm the stuff about his frontal lobe. But that's always been his thing. He's always said, 'maybe the accident is why I am the way I am.' I don't know how it works, but I can say that his problems always seemed to be more chemical. He'd take his meds, and he'd even out. He'd behave better. That sounds more chemical than a brain injury. But I'm not his doctor. I can't say for sure." Those close to Kanye also acknowledge that antisemitic rhetoric surfaced most intensely during his spirals. A friend noted: "Ye would start talking about Jews when he was spiraling. If he wasn't spiraling, he wasn't antisemitic, or at least he didn't say it out loud. But when he was in a spiral, he'd say things privately. I tried to explain things to him, and other people have tried too. His big one has always been that the Jews killed Jesus. When he was feeling antisemitic, that was a go-to for him: 'Well, the Jews killed Jesus, so they're evil.'" For years, Kim K worked behind the scenes to keep him stable, the insider said: "With Ye, you never know what you're going to get. It was clear that he was bipolar, we all know that. But it got worse over the yea