Kanye West’s ‘psychiatric emergency’
The 911 call placed in relation to Kanye West’s hospitalization has been released.
The call was for a “psychiatric emergency,” based on the 911 recording acquired by E! News, which is the entertainment news show of the network that airs West’s wife Kim Kardashian’s show, Keeping Up with the Kardashians.
According to the report, West was at the home of his trainer Monday when the “emergency happened.” It was West’s doctor who made the call.
He was then rushed to the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center.
The 39-year-old rapper was admitted for “mental exhaustion and sleep deprivation.”
West had a jam-packed concert schedule this year. He had to cancel his St. Pablo tour Monday because of his situation. There were still 21 dates of his national tour.
There were conflicting reports on how he was rushed to the hospital, though. Some reports state that the rapper voluntarily admitted himself to the hospital, while another states that West was handcuffed to the gurney. The latter would mean that either West was a danger to himself or to others, or he was disabled. “Kanye is doing better,” a source told
E! News yesterday of West’s status. Los Angeles police told The Associated Press that they responded to a home in West Hollywood, California, and a person there was taken by ambulance to the hospital and placed on a psychiatric hold. Police did not identify the patient as West.
Kardashian had been expected to make her first public appearance Monday night since she was tied up and robbed at gunpoint last month in Paris. It was to come at the Angel Ball, a charity event in New York honoring her late father, Robert Kardashian.
But amid the reports about West, she did not show up.
Her mother, Kris Jenner, and sisters Khloe and Kourtney Kardashian were on hand.
When asked how the couple was doing, Jenner simply smiled and said, “They’re good.”
West had just pulled the plug on his Saint Pablo Tour after days of erratic and angry behavior that made an even hotter topic than usual on social media.
On Friday, during a concert in San Jose, California, West said he didn’t vote in the presidential election but would have cast a ballot for Donald Trump, praising the presidentelect’s “method of communication” as “very futuristic.” On Saturday in Sacramento, California, he ended his show after just four songs but not before a 10-minute tirade about Beyonce, Jay Z, Hillary Clinton, Mark Zuckerberg, the radio and MTV. Over the weekend, West also flooded his Instagram account with nearly 100 fashion photos, many snaps of photos that were out of focus and poorly cropped. Sunday’s show in the Los Angeles area was canceled, then West decided to scrap the entire tour. Concert promoter Live Nation said tickets would be fully refunded. The tour was to have made stops through Dec. 31 in Dallas, Denver, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Detroit, Boston, New York City and Washington, D.C., among others.