New details have emerged regarding yesterday’s revelation that Kanye West had been hospitalized in Los Angeles following the abrupt cancellation of the remaining Saint Pablo Tour dates.
According to TMZ, West was placed on what’s known in the state of California as a 5150 hold by his personal physician, Dr. Michael Farzam. Law enforcement sources have told the celebrity news website that Farzam himself made the initial 911 call, telling the dispatcher that the patient was “Jim Jones, 39 years old, 5’8″, 175 lbs… suffers from temporary psychosis due to sleep deprivation and dehydration” before warning that West “was not violent, but would become violent when police arrived to help him.” While it remains unclear if Dr. Farzam did indeed officially place West on a 5150 (an “involuntary psychiatric hold”), the revelation lends credence to the news surrounding yesterday’s bizarre episode, as well as the report that West had to be physically restrained upon the arrival of law enforcement and paramedics — in the case of a 5150, it’s standard protocol for the patient to be handcuffed and confined to a stretcher. West is still presumably being treated at UCLA Medical Center.
Stay tuned for updates and here’s to hoping West gets well soon.
NBC NEWS has reported that Kanye West is currently under observation at a Los Angeles hospital late Monday after the remaining dates of his ‘Saint Pablo’ Tour were abruptly canceled. Los Angeles police responded to a medical welfare call about 1:20 p.m. (4:20 p.m. ET). According to sources close to the rapper, Kanye is being treated for “exhaustion,” and no criminal activity was involved. West’s wife, Kim Kardashian West, was in New York for a charity event to honor her late father. Upon hearing the news about Kanye, she quickly flew back to Los Angeles; this would have marked her first public appearance since the robbery in Paris, something that has weighed heavily on West since it happened.
His admission to the hospital followed a week of bizarre incidents during which the controversial rapper publicly railed against fellow music stars Beyoncé and Jay Z and proclaimed his support for President-elect Donald Trump. Upon cancelling his tour, West will be losing approximately $500,000 USD for each missed performance tallying up towards $10 million USD in total, according to Forbes. Another source told Page Six:
“He’s having a nervous breakdown. He’s surrounded by all these crazy people, but there’s nobody he listens to or who can rein him in. He’s spiraling further and further out of control. Basically everything crazy he does is ‘art’ — canceling his tour is ‘art’ — he is becoming more and more unpredictable. His state of mind goes back a long way, perhaps to the death of his mother, which he never got over. That combined with his chaotic life — he often stays up and works for 48 hours at a time when he’s on, and calls his team at 3 a.m. Kanye needs a stronger support system, he needs to take some time to fall to the ground and start from scratch again. He’s so talented, but he’s his own worst enemy.”
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