The Grammy-winning musician, known as Ye, penned a lengthy apology in the advertisement, voicing regrets for his social media attacks on Jewish people and his public embracing of Nazism in recent years.
He began his letter detailing injuries from a 2002 car accident, including a frontal-lobe injury he says led to his bipolar type-1 diagnosis.
He wrote that, in the throes of the disorder, "I gravitated toward the most destructive symbol I could find: the swastika".
"I lost touch with reality. Things got worse the longer I ignored the problem. I said and did things I deeply regret."
The Power and I Love Kanye musician, 48, has long had a history of stirring controversy, but notably began facing waves of scrutiny for embracing white supremacy, fawning over Adolf Hitler and threatening violence to Jewish people on social media in late 2022.
Although his professional life seemed to take blows, he continued embracing Nazi symbolism in the following years, last year selling a swastika-bearing T-shirt and releasing a single titled Heil Hitler.
He had also allegedly told a former employee, who is Jewish, that he was a "Nazi" and compared himself to their leader Adolf Hitler, according to a lawsuit filed last year.
Early last year he experienced a "four-month manic episode of psychotic, paranoid and impulsive behaviour that destroyed my life". — TCA
