Daytime talk show host Wendy Williams said Saturday she believes Kanye West needs help.
“I will tell you, I feel very, very bad for Kanye West,” Williams said during a Q&A at the Vulture Festival, according to the New York Post. “He’s not well and that is the very foundation of everything he says.”
West has caused controversy in recent weeks by tweeting support for Trump and saying that “slavery was a choice.” He also admitted to previously battling an opioid addiction.
Williams said: “the war on drugs is very, very real, and the war on helping people with mental illness is very, very real.”
She said West's father is "nowhere in the picture" and added: "His mom passed away trying to beautify herself to be a stage mom and I’m not going to talk about his wife, his family or anything like that but what I will tell you is that he’s not well.
“Kanye is in the throes. I think that mental illness is something that is so real.”
Williams isn’t the only one publicly discussing West’s recent behaviour. Earlier this week, Snoop Dogg suggested West needs black women in his life.
"I hate to be black and white, [but] there's no black women in his life," he said. "Let's just keep that 100. That's real, man. I got aunties that'll pull up with them big ol' church hats on [like] 'N***a, what's happening? What you on, nephew? You bulls**ting. We taught you way better than that.'
"It got to a point where it was, like, it was funny then it got sad.”