Kanye West said his wife, Kim Kardashian West, held out against his desire to abort their first child.
The rapper appeared in South Carolina for a campaign rally, the first for his last-minute presidential bid, and said that he didn’t want to be a father when Kardashian West told him she was pregnant with their oldest child, North. Kardashian West said she wanted to have the baby, West recalled, despite him still living a “rapper’s lifestyle.”
“She brought North into the world, even when I didn’t want to,” he said of Kardashian West. “She stood up, and she protected that child.”
“For one month, and two months, and three months, we talked about her not having this child,” West added. “She had the [abortion] pills in her hand. You know those pills where you take the pills and it’s a wrap, the baby’s gone.”
West, who has struggled with bipolar disorder, also said he received a message from God, telling him he needed to support having the baby.
“I’m in the apartment in Paris,” West continued. “And I have my laptop up, and I have all my creative ideas … and the screen went black and white. And God said, ‘If you f— with my vision, I’m gonna f— with yours.’”
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At his first campaign event, @kanyewest shares that when @KimKardashian got pregnant with their first child, North, he wanted an abortion at first.
Says Kanye: “She brought North into the world, even when I didn’t want to. She stood up and protected that child”! pic.twitter.com/RN0hHvBIUj
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“And I called my wife, and she said, ‘We’re gonna have this baby,’” he added. “I said, ‘We’re gonna have this child.’”
The rapper added that the situation was similar to the one his mom had when she discovered she was pregnant with him.
“You know who else protected a child?” he asked the crowd. “Forty-three years ago, who do you think protected a child?”
“My mom,” he said. “My mom saved my life.”
He also said during the event while crying, “I almost killed my daughter.”
The rapper’s reflection on his first daughter’s birth is not the first time he’s voiced anti-abortion views. Earlier this month, he said Planned Parenthood clinics are facilities “to do the Devil’s work.”
“Planned Parenthoods have been placed inside cities by white supremacists to do the Devil’s work,” West told Forbes.
West announced his presidential bid at the start of July and appears to still be in the race despite reports he abandoned the bid days after announcing.
