In a story that raises eyebrows and many questions, Kanye West, now officially named Ye, has apparently checked himself into a luxury mental health clinic in Mallorca, Spain. Legal woes and severe public backlash continue to swirl around him in what must seem like a storm he can’t dodge.
The 47-year-old songstress is checked into The Balance Rehab Clinic, a luxury resort-style retreat on the scenic Spanish island. This is not your typical therapy scene but a $170,000-a-week oasis that includes individual counseling, yoga, three gourmet meals daily, and the peaceful surroundings others might only see on a postcard. His wife, Bianca Censori, is said to be at his side during the stay. But rehab isn’t just a mental health getaway; it is damage control on the fly.
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Ye’s whereabouts were revealed in court filings from the wrongful termination lawsuit of former employee Benjamin Provo, effectively confirming rampant speculation that he’d vanished from the public eye in the wake of another wave of controversy.
Ye’s reputation has been battered in the last year and a half, and some would say he’s done it to himself. In the past few months, in a flurry of inflammatory social media posts and public comments in a February tweet, he posted, “I’m a Nazi” Ye has inflamed widespread criticism. The post, which was later taken down, with others declaring he doesn’t “trust any of them,” went viral, already doing its damage.
The firestorm grew when Ye, who was also slated to perform at the 2025 Super Bowl halftime show, ran a commercial for his online clothing store that featured a single product: a $20 black T-shirt ominously stamped with the tagline “HH-01.” Many read this as a subtly coded allusion to “Heil Hitler,” the response was swift, and Shopify shut down the store posthaste.
Then there was the release of the now-wiped “Heil Hitler” weird track leaning toward Adolf Hitler. South Korean retail giant Coupang quickly pulled the plug on an event planned around it and removed all of its Yeezy products from its shelves, further indicating how far off course Ye has gone in the international marketplace.
His retreat to Spain notwithstanding, Ye turned up unexpectedly in New York last Thursday, June 13, at the sex trafficking trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs. With Christian “King” Combs by his side, Ye watched the proceedings against the rapper from an overflow room for about 40 minutes before slipping quietly out.
The melding of high-end healing with headline-making controversy is nothing new for Ye, who has long blurred the lines between vulnerability, shock value, and public spectacle. Is this stint in Mallorca truly a rehabilitation or just the following passage in the performance art of his life in public?
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