Kim Kardashian Breaks Down in Tears Over Kanye West in New Doc Trailer

Kim Kardashian breaks down in tears over Kanye West in an upcoming documentary about his turbulent life. 

The new trailer for In Whose Name? reveals a rare glimpse of the former couple during a low moment. Kardashian, 44, can be heard crying, telling her ex-husband, “Your personality was not like this a few years ago.”

In another scene, West, 48, tells his then-wife, “Never tell me I’m gonna wake up one day and have nothing.”

When Kardashian replies, “We can talk about that later, but… ,” West says: “It ain’t no ‘but.’”

In Whose Name? hits theaters on September 19. The trailer for the doc was released on Wednesday, August 13, and shows West experiencing mental health issues during a six-year period. 

According to a description via YouTube, filmmaker Nicolas Ballesteros documented the controversial artist grappling with his “collapsing marriage, vanishing sponsorships, and growing public backlash.” In the film, West talks openly “about living with bipolar disorder, offering rare insight into the realities of mental illness and its impact on identity, perception, and power.”

West married Kardashian in 2014. The exes share North, 12, Saint, 9, Chicago, 7, and Psalm, 7. Kardashian filed for divorce in February 2021; the proceedings were finalized in November 2022. The following month, West and Bianca Censori tied the knot.

Around that time, Kardashian appeared on the “Angie Martinez IRL” podcast and recalled her previous efforts to “protect” her kids from West’s erratic behavior.

“I definitely protected him, and I still will in the eyes of my kids,” she stated in December 2022. “For my kids. So, in my home, my kids don’t know anything that goes on [in] the outside world.”

She added that at the children’s school, “some of my best friends are the teachers so I know what goes on at recess and lunch time. I hear what is being talked about.”

She said that “if we are riding to school and they want to listen to their dad’s music — no matter what we are going through — I have to have that smile on my face and blast his music and sing along with my kids. [I can] act like nothing is wrong and as soon as I drop them off, I can have a good cry.”

Months after Kardashian’s divorce filing, West lost brand deals with Adidas, Gap and Balenciaga over antisemitic comments he made on social media. He attempted to enter Skechers’ Los Angeles headquarters in October 2022, but was “engaged in unauthorized filming,” the shoe brand said in a statement at the time. As a result, “two Skechers executives escorted him and his party from the building after a brief conversation.”

Earlier this year, West released a song called “Heil Hitler” that glorifies Adolf Hitler, who ordered the killing of 6 million Jewish people during the Holocaust. 

He later claimed that he was “done with antisemitism” and seemingly asked for forgiveness for his hateful comments. 

“God forgive me for the pain I’ve caused,” West wrote via X in May, adding, “I simply got a FaceTime from my kids and I wanna save the world again.”