Kanye West has attempted to reignite his feud with his ex-wife’s most-recent flame, Pete Davidson. However, it seems his ongoing taunting of the young comedian has been found to have some dark consequences.
Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson were reported to have separated early this week after a nine-month relationship.
While neither party has spoken out on the separation, sources believed to be close to the couple have confirmed the story to PEOPLE.
Kanye, who has consistently proclaimed his ongoing love for Kim, was quick to share his excitement.
The rapper took to Instagram to post a doctored image of New York Times paper with a front-page headline reading “Skete Davidson Dead At Age 28”.
Although the post was deleted soon after, Kanye’s constant attacks on Pete have had a lasting effect, with a source revealing to PEOPLE that he’s had to seek therapy to address the trauma.
“The attention and negativity coming from Kanye and his antics is a trigger for [Pete], and he’s had to seek out help,” the source stated.
They revealed that the therapy began in April this year, shortly after Kanye’s online attacks began.
The damaging posts and commentary began with memes in which Kanye would pit himself against Pete and culminated in him referring to Pete as ‘Skete’ in posts where he attacked Kim as well, accusing her of keeping his children away from him and disbanding their family.
He also rapped about harming Pete in the song Eazy, singing “God saved me from that crash just so I can beat Pete Davidson’s ass”.
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Reports have also emerged that Kanye might have removed the newspaper post at Kim’s insistence.
“[Kim] won’t stand for this. She is demanding that Kanye take the post down,” an insider revealed to The Daily Mail.
“She has been vigorously defending Pete,” they added.
“She’ll never get back together with Kanye over the way he’s treated the people she loves and respects. She has tried incredibly hard to have a good co-parenting situation for the children.
“She won’t stand for this type of behaviour from him.”
Kim and Kanye began divorce proceedings in 2021, but they’ve been heavily protracted.
It was recently reported by Rolling Stone that Kanye’s fifth divorce lawyer has now withdrawn from the case.
Kim told Vogue this year that “for so long, I did what made other people happy“.
“And I think in the last two years I decided, I’m going to make myself happy… And that feels really good. And even if that created changes and caused my divorce, I think it’s important to be honest with yourself about what really makes you happy.”
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