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- Kim Kardashian and Kanye West have a tense phone call in the new In Whose Name? documentary
- During their heated exchange, Kardashian tells the disgraced rapper that he’ll “wake up one day” with “nothing” following his 2018 visit to the White House to meet with President Donald Trump
- West revealed his bipolar diagnosis in 2018
Kim Kardashian is seen having a heated exchange with then-husband Kanye West in the new In Whose Name? documentary.
After a visit to the White House to meet with President Donald Trump in 2018, the rapper — whose history of antisemitism led him to be dropped by his talent agent in February, in addition to the 2022 loss of his billionaire status — has a tense phone call with his ex-wife, now 44, about how he is perceived by the people in his life.
“It’s like I can’t sleep. I’ve been crying all day. It’s just this bad dream that’s not ending,” Kardashian tells West, now 48, in footage from the documentary, which was filmed with the rapper’s cooperation over a period of six years. “You’re losing… everyone around you is like… there’s a way to talk about what you feel. But when you’re this dramatic…”
West then questions who “everyone” is, to which Kardashian replies that it’s people in the “music business” and “in your work field.”
“I don’t care about the music business. I don’t care about the work field. I’m in a slave business. I’m a slave to Universal. What are you talking about? Of course they’re losing,” he says.
“Just ’cause you have a job and you work hard doesn’t mean you’re a slave,” Kardashian responds. “That’s demeaning because I work hard with brands that are similar to all of that.”
West then tells Kardashian that “E! is a slaveship for you.”
“That’s not how I look at it, so I think you’re offending a lot of people, including yourself, because they’ve provided a life for me that I never would have been able to provide, and I’m very grateful for that. And I’m not about burning bridges with companies,” she replies.
Kardashian adds, “You’re gonna wake up one day and you’re gonna have, like, nothing.”
West then scolds the SKIMS founder, “No! Never tell me I’m gonna wake up one day and have nothing. Never put that into the universe.”
After the phone call, West then confronts Kardashian’s mother, Kris Jenner, in another verbal altercation.
Kardashian and Jenner did not respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.
Kardashian and West began dating in 2012, married in 2014 and filed for divorce in 2021. They share four children: North, 12, Saint, 9, Chicago, 7, and Psalm, 6.
The rapper had publicly been a Trump supporter since November 2016, when he spoke about his position during a concert, although West admitted he did not in fact vote in the election. In April 2018 he called Trump “my brother,” and was booed for a pro-Trump rant on Saturday Night Live that did not make air. In October of that year, West visited the White House, taking a meeting with the president in the Oval Office. By July 2020, the rapper had announced that he himself was running for president (West ultimately conceded that November).
In Whose Name features over 3,000 hours of personal footage which director Nico Ballesteros filmed throughout the years with West’s permission, providing an unvarnished look into the rapper’s mental state at the time.
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