Kanye West reveals he became addicted to opioids after having liposuction

KANYE West has finally revealed what was really going on around the time of his onstage meltdown and hospitalisation in 2016.

KANYE West has revealed he became addicted to opioids after having liposuction.

“Two days before I was in the hospital I was on opioids,” he said during a bizarre interview on TMZ Live on Tuesday.

“I was addicted to opioids. I had plastic surgery because I was trying to look good for y’all. I got liposuction because I didn’t want y’all to call me fat like y’all called Rob [Kardashian] at the wedding and made him fly home before me and Kim got married.”

Kanye didn’t want to be called ‘fat’ like his wife’s brother. Picture: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Harper’s Bazaar

West, 40, was hospitalised in November 2016 following an onstage meltdown during the Saint Pablo tour.

“I was taking two pills a day at that time,” he said. “When I left the hospital how many pills do you think I was given? Seven. I went from taking two pills to taking seven.”

He continued, “The reason why I dropped those tweets and everything is because I was drugged the f**k out bro, and I’m not drugged out … these pills that they want me to take three of a day, I take one a week maybe, two a week. Ya’ll had me scared of myself, of my vision, so I took some pills so I wouldn’t go the hospital and prove everyone right. We are drugged out. We are following other people’s opinions. We are controlled by the media and today it all changes.”

During an interview released yesterday with Charlamagne tha God, West said at the time of his breakdown he thought he was going to die. He explained it was a result of exhaustion from touring, as well as stress.

“I think I’m in a stronger place than I ever was after the breakdown, or as I like to call it ‘the breakthrough,’” he said before his blow-up on TMZ on Tuesday.

This story originally appeared in NY Post and is republished here with permission.