The rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, has denied he is a Nazi and has claimed that a car crash 25 years ago led to him being diagnosed as bipolar.
In a full-page advert he has taken out in the US outlet The Wall Street Journal, the 48-year-old said he is not asking for “sympathy or a free pass” and wants to earn forgiveness from the public.
The star has also apologised to the black community, saying he has let it down.
He said: “In that fractured state (of his bipolar diagnosis), I gravitated toward the most destructive symbol I could find, the swastika, and even sold t-shirts bearing it.
“One of the difficult aspects of having bipolar type-1 are…