Kim Kardashian Sobs While Telling Kanye ‘Your Personality Was Not Like This a Few Years Ago’ in Trailer for New Documentary

The trailer for the new Kanye West documentary In Whose Name? premiered on Wednesday, featuring a conversation between him and his former wife, Kim Kardashian.

Roughly a minute long, the trailer begins with West, 48, walking around a circle made up of Yeezy sneakers, presumably from his Forbes cover story shoot in 2019. The rapper is heard saying in a voiceover, ”I’m off my meds for five months now.”

The video then cuts to a clip of West closing a door marked with Kardashian’s name on it. “Your personality was not like this a few years ago,” she says through tears.

After a few clips, including one where West and his eldest daughter, North, 11, are riding in the back of a vehicle, West says angrily, “Never tell me I’m gonna wake up one day and have nothing.”

The camera then cuts to Kardashian, 44, who says, “We can talk about that later, but,” before West stops her to say, “It ain’t no but!”

Per Deadline, the documentary features footage filmed over six years by director Nico Ballesteros. It is set to be released on approximately 1,000 screens on Sept. 19. 

West, who has a history of virulent antisemitism, was dropped by his talent agent in February following one of his antisemitic rants. 

The trailer does not touch on West’s hate speech. Rather, it includes clips from West’s 2020 presidential campaign, including video from the South Carolina campaign rally in which West claimed that he and Kardashian almost aborted their daughter North, now 11.

West says at another point in the trailer, “I’d rather be dead than to be on medication. Either they destroy me or I destroy it,” and “They’re killing our ability to think outside of the box.”

The trailer ends with West saying, “You know the best thing about being an artist and bipolar? Anything you do and say is an art piece.”

On his 2018 album Ye, West referred to living with bipolar disorder. According to the Mayo Clinic, the mental health condition “causes extreme mood swings,” including emotional highs and lows.

Amid a series of alarming tweets in 2020, Kardashian spoke out about West’s health, asking for compassion. She would go on to file for divorce in February 2021.

West later claimed in February 2025 that he had been diagnosed with autism and was previously misdiagnosed with bipolar disorder, per CNN.

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