Piers Morgan has revealed the truth behind his short-lived interview with Kanye West, after the rapper stormed off just three minutes into the chat.
After sparking huge controversy with his tirades on social media, Kanye had agreed to an interview with Piers for his series Uncensored.
And in a video to launch his new profile on Substack, Piers, 60, shared with his followers the chaotic build-up to his interview with Kanye, 47, after he kept crew members waiting for two hours, before cancelling at the last minute.
Despite agreeing to instead be interviewed the following day, Piers went onto reveal that Kanye once again kept crew waiting, before suddenly taking offence that he hadn’t been greeted by his moniker Ye.
Kanye then dramatically walked out after Piers accused him of failing to take accountability for his controversial comments on social media, which have branded ‘antisemitic.’
While Piers criticised Kanye for his behaviour during the brief interview, he ended his video by offering him another interview, in a bid to ‘hold him to account’ over his comments.
Piers Morgan has revealed the truth behind his short-lived interview with Kanye West , after the rapper stormed off just three minutes into the chat
After sparking huge controversy with his tirades on social media, Kanye had agreed to an interview with Piers for his series Uncensored
In the nine-minute clip, Piers began: ‘The Genesis of all this was two years ago I interviewed him, when he was going through his initial, slightly crazy phase where it appeared that he was embracing antisemitism in a pretty vile way.
‘I took him on, it was a two-hour interview, it was quite fascinating, but he was reasonably normal, I would say, for a lot of that interview, quite reflective, quite sel-aware of what he’d done and almost apologetic.
‘Two years forward and Ye has been on a systematic rampage of blatant ant semitism, embracing Adolf Hitler, Nazism, Swastikas, it’s all been extraordinarily, and I think deliberately, offensive to Jewish people of course.
‘It’s caused huge upheaval, a lot of commerical deals have crashed, notably on X where he goes on these posting rampages.
‘It seems like he’s on a mission to attack everyone and everyhting blaming everyone and everything for all his woes, apart from the person who is most responsible, and that’s him.
‘I didn’t think we’d get another interview with him because I’ve been lamasting him quite regularly on X, taking him to task there, but I kind of feel like I’m howling to the wind because nothing I do ever seems to prompt a suspension from X.
‘I think the only time he got suspended was when he psoted some legal pornography which was a line that Elon Musk’s team at X felt crossed their line but not the antisemitisim.’
Piers then shared that on Monday he was told that Kanye was ready to be interviewed, and would speak to him from Mallorca, alongside rapper and social media star Speako.
Kanye then dramatically walked out after Piers accused him of failing to take accountability for his controversial comments on social media, which have branded ‘antisemitic’
Piers shared with his followers on Substack the chaotic build-up to his interview with Kanye, after he kept crew members waiting for two hours, before postpi=oning until the following day
‘I was genuinely curious to hold him to account, is he just a massive troll, is he mentally unhinged or is he just an attention seeker, or is he just an antisemitic pro Hitler Nazi. I think at the very least he ought to be challenged in an interview format to determine what he is or isn’t, to see if he has an explanation for what he’s done.
‘Anyway we were supposed to interview him on Monday night he kept my crew in Mallorca waiting for about two hours, he kept me [and my crew] waiting in London for two hours, all of this is expensive.
‘Thousands of pounds and Euros were being expended waiting for his greatness as he would see it to do this actual interview and he didn’t show. At the last minute he decided he’d rather do it the next day.’
‘And I went ”OK, I’ll give him one more chance” obviously it was incredibly irritating, obviously my inclination was to wring him by his scrawny arrogant neck, but no, I gave him another chance, let’s see if he rocks up the next night, which was last night, Tuesday night.
‘Once again he kept us waiting for a couple of hours past the agreed time he was supposed to do the interview, and once again he was costing us time and money. And my patience was almost running out.
Then I got told, in the middle of another debate, he’s ready and he’ll do it, then I got told, actually he’s taking a phone call, so let’s see.
‘Then he came back, so his greatness was now available for me to talk to him, and I talked to him for about three minutes, that’s how long it took, this farce, when I asked him how he was, he pointed to the backdrop behind him, which implied he was in a great place.
‘I said you seem really happy and content, which is in direct contrast to what is going on with you on social media, where you have 32million followers.’
Piers then revealed that Kanye went into a ‘great theatrical strop’ over the number of followers he was quoted to have, declaring that it was actually 33 million.
He continued: ‘That was the most mortally offensive thing that anyone could say to him, this is the same guy, remember, who has recently sadi that all Jews should be whipped.
‘That’s one of the many things he said, but he was offended by the fact that I kind of cut off his d**k, by not getting the number of followers right.
‘The number of followers is relevant and significant with Kanye West or Ye as he wants us to call him and he was angry that I called him Ye West even though his X profile says @kanyewest, but no he can’t be called Ye West, I have no idea what he wants to be called or who he really is, I doubt he does either.
‘But because I misnamed him that was another gregious offence to be added to the misnumbering of the total number followers and he said hhthat’s the end now I’m out of herehh. Off he flounced.’
Piers then said that he went onto grill Kanye’s pal Sneako for several minutes, but soon realised he ‘wasn’t going to be held accountable for anything’ and he soon walked out of the interview as well.
Following the short-lived chat, Kanye himself took to X to post: ‘Let’s have a real interview someday It’s all love,’ brushing off the fact he’d made an early exit.
And in his video, Piers went onto call him out over the post, saying: ‘But the trouble is, Ye, it’s not all love is it?
‘It actually all hate, it’s hate towards everybody including your family, your ex wife towards Jewish peple towards other peple towards rappers, you’ve become a hate machine, fuelled on social media, all this vicious sentient to a vast audience and that is wrong.’
Last week, the rapper shocked fans when he appeared to come out as gay during a two-minute video rant, while referring to his ongoing custody battle with ex-wife Kim Kardashian
Calling for Kanye to be removed from X, Piers went onto defend his decision to have him on his show for an interview, saying: ‘I did because he’s not been held to account properly on X, he’s getting away with this and it’s amplifying his message.
‘Now if Ye wants to have a proper interview with me about all this, I will do that, but if he wants to play silly games he can swing for it.
‘If you want to sit in front me Ye get on a plane come to London and come to my studio and let’s do this man to man face to face and you can be held accountable for your despicable actions on social media, let’s see if you’re manly enough to do that, or is it easier to attack people like Kim like Paris Hilton, the women, is it easier to attach them on social media then it is to face up to me.
‘We’ll see, some people think I shouldn’t bother sitting down with you anymore, that’s how far your stock has fallen.’
During the interview, Kanye first took umbrage at Piers using the surname West in his opening scene-setting intro, correcting the broadcaster – who clearly addressed him as ‘Ye’ in his first question – he said: ‘I don’t use the term West, you know, the whole drop the slave name idea?’
‘Ok, so we just call you Ye, yeah?’ Piers replied, and he responded: ‘Yes sir.’
Piers then asked Kanye, who was joined by social media star Sneako, how his life had been recently, with Kanye noting the background, and where he was record the interview.
He said: ‘You see that view?… Judge it on the view on the answer how my life is, judge me by the view.’
Piers responded: ‘The view is Majorca, I’ve been there. It’s a beautiful place, and for all intents and purposes, you seem very relaxed and happy.
‘That is in direct contrast to your public image at the moment, over the last couple of years, led by your ferocious… [he begins to interrupt] Well, hang on. Let me finish the question…’
Ye hit back: ‘But I already disagree, it’s not in contrast, there’s so many people and artists that are championing the idea of someone being able to just express who they really are, and have been able to go through the war of being attacked by the banks, being attacked, you know, by the banks – that’s the best way to put it!
‘Being attacked by the banks, and to still be here with this view is, you know, that’s the win. So I think that’s, I’m in contrast to your contrast.’
Piers then attempted to finish his question, saying: ‘OK, but the point I was gonna make is that, I watch what you put out on X – you’ve got 32 million followers, so you’re one of the most followed people…’
A bristling Ye retorted: ‘Now, look, right now you’re not going to take inches off my dick, bro. Like, how many followers do I have?’
When Piers asked how many the correct number was, Ye said the journalist had a staff of people who could look up the figure. Piers replied: ‘I’m told it’s 33 million now. So congratulations, you’re slightly bigger following than I thought…’
But the irritated rapper, who has four children by Kim Kardashian, began comparing himself to former music legends, saying the Piers Morgan Uncensored host was trying to undermine him.
He said: ‘Your information is correct…I’m a gift, bro. I mean, why do all you people in media act like you haven’t played my songs at your weddings or graduations or at funerals, and when your child was born, you know, you take somebody that’s living like a [John] Lennon, a Michael Jackson, and you just take all this time to, like that nuance right there, it’s idiotic.
‘It just shows the hate that you put out for people that put love. There’s so much love in the art I put out.’
A baffled Piers added: ‘…What are you talking about? I haven’t said anything?’
Ye concluded: ‘Now you are not taking accountability or responsibility… No sir, this is what you get for now we can, we can circle back when you can count.’
Taking off his mic, he then stormed off the set, leaving the interview in little more than two minutes.
Last week, Kanye appeared to come out as gay during a manic rant concerning his ex-wife Kim Kardashian and their ongoing custody dispute.
Adorned in an all-black outfit and face mask, the Grammy winner had been talking about not seeing his four kids that he shares with Kim, 44.
As he concluded the two-minute diatribe, he said: ‘I ain’t got no motherf****** legacy n****, why the f*** you think I am s****ing out.’
He then appeared to say: ‘I’m gay. [inaudible] in charge of my legacy and I’m gay. I’m in charge of my legacy.’
Social media users have debated over whether he actually said ‘I’m gay’, or was speaking about himself and repeating ‘I’m Ye’.
It comes after a separate post to Kanye’s X account just last week in which he made remarks concerning him and his male cousin having a incestuous relationship.
While teasing a new song, titled ‘COUSINS’, he said: ‘This song is called COUSINS about my cousin that’s locked in jail for life for killing a pregnant lady a few years after I told him we wouldn’t ‘look at dirty magazines together’ anymore.
‘Perhaps in my self centered mess I felt it was my fault that I showed him those dirty magazines when he was 6 and then we acted out what we saw.
‘My dad had playboy magazines but the magazines I found in the top of my moms closet were different. My name is Ye and I sucked my cousins d*** till I was 14.’
Following a series of posts, he then shared the rainbow emoji to X, writing: ‘This is my new logo’, before adding that he wasn’t actually gay.
In his latest statement, West also said: ”I’mma go get these kids, bro. I’m talking to the lawyers – it gets to the point where I don’t lose my f***in’ mind where I got to get used to not seeing my kids.’
The Stronger artist added, ‘[DJ] Akademiks put that battery in my back, bro – cause I was in the airport by myself … I’mma go get these kids, man!’
West, who recently returned from Japan, has been working on new music as of late and corresponding with fans on social media about the upcoming slate of releases.
He previously shared a series of X posts on March 19 in which he said that he was put off by a white woman being in control of his black children.
West also shockingly said that he wished he had children with Paris Hilton instead of Kardashian.
Kanye had referenced how Kardashian had got her start in the limelight by acting as Paris’ assistant.
‘Kim was Paris Hilton’s assistant. I should’ve had babies with Paris Hilton over Kim Kardashian!’ he said in the widely panned remarks.
Kanye and Kim share four children together: North, 11, Saint, 9, Chicago, 7, and Psalm, 5.
‘Could you imagine if I had kids with Paris Hilton? How many hotels I would have right now? Think about that. The Hilton. The Hilton s***’, he said.
He was swiftly banned from Twitch after making the remarks, with his channel going down 10 minutes after he started streaming.
West has remained in the crosshairs of controversy for much of the year amid a torrent of posts propagating antisemitism.
On February 11, the shop on West’s Yeezy Website – which he advertised with an expensive ad during the Super Bowl – was taken offline by Shopify after he was selling a white shirt with a black swastika in the center. He has also frequently made posts praising Adolf Hitler.
West spoke more about the controversy in a series of posts on February 20 – promising to wear the swastika shirt onstage at the Super Bowl.
‘Next year I’m performing at the superbowl wearing my wittle T shirt,’ he said. ‘People with money bought my wittle t shirt.’
West has remained in the crosshairs of controversy for much of the year amid a torrent of posts propagating antisemitism (pictured in February)
He added that Shopify ‘gave [him his] account back’ after taking down his store after controversy erupted over the shirts, but that he was ‘not going to use it.’
The Anti-Defamation League said in a post on X: ‘As if we needed further proof of Kanye’s antisemitism, he chose to put a single item for sale on his website – a t-shirt emblazoned with a swastika.
‘If that wasn’t enough, the t-shirt is labeled on Kanye’s website as ‘HH-01,’which is code for ‘Heil Hitler.’
‘Kanye was tweeting vile antisemitism nonstop since last week. There’s no excuse for this kind of behavior.’
The organization added: ‘Even worse, Kanye advertised his website during the Super Bowl, amplifying it beyond his already massive social media audience.’
Sources close to Kardashian have told DailyMail.com that she is now taking extra precautions and has hired guards to be with her 24/7 amid his erratic behavior.
The reality star has also told relatives to be careful sharing anything about her children online, the source revealed.
She has instructed her closest allies not to post about their locations or upload photos or messages that could identify where they might be.
‘She’s absolutely horrified,’ the source told the Daily Mail. ‘Like every time things get bad with Kanye, somehow they get worse.’
They finalized their divorce in 2022 and agreed to joint custody of their children, but the conflict between them has continued.
‘I HAVENT SEEN SAINT THIS YEAR,’ he wrote, despite the fact that they were pictured together in January.
Although West has accused Kardashian of not allowing him to see his children, the Daily Mail can confirm that he saw Saint, Chicago and Psalm at the time.