As rumors swirl about the state of Kanye ‘Ye’ West’s marriage to Bianca Censori in the wake of her naked appearance on the Grammys red carpet last month, one of his former flames is weighing in on the rapper’s behavior – especially as it relates to his wives and girlfriends.
Amber Rose, who dated West before he married ex-wife Kim Kardashian, said in a recent interview that there is a pattern to how the women in his orbit dress and are seen in public. She says that is not by chance and offered her take on the Grammy winner’s psyche.
On Thursday’s show, Megyn was joined by comedian Andrew Schulz to discuss Rose’s remarks and the psychology behind Kanye West’s obsession with attention.
Rose’s Reveal
During an appearance on Shannon Sharpe’s Club Shay Shay this week, Rose revealed that West once forced to wear a sheer dress despite “crying and arguing against it.” She said she ultimately relented when he told her “it’s fashion” and “I’m a genius,” but she recalled that “they ate me up on the internet” for the nearly naked ensemble.
Rose dated West for two years beginning in 2008, and she has a theory for why the rapper tries to take control of her partners’ look. “He wants other men to want to f-ck his women,” she told Sharpe. “That’s what he’s into. He likes that. He likes that men are drooling over his women.”
She noted that he molded Kardashian’s style in a similarly risqué direction, and now Censori – who has been photographed in various states of undress prior to the Grammys moment – is his latest project. “He wants also his friends to want to f-ck his girlfriend,” Rose continued. “He wants… when you walk in a room, that his girlfriend or wife is the most desirable in the room. That’s what he likes.”
What It Means
If Rose is correct, Schulz said it makes you wonder how West views the women he is with. “It makes me question if he really likes her or if she is just a tool for his own validation and to get attention,” he said. “He is so exhausting, but he is so good at getting attention.”
After Censori broke the internet with her completely transparent dress at the Grammys, West made headlines the next week with his antisemitic Super Bowl commercial and pornographic X posts. In Schulz’s view, it all feeds into the same quest for eyeballs.
“There’s a moment, in the Super Bowl, where he knows that everybody’s attention is going to be on somebody else. So, he is like, ‘I’m gonna make this about me,'” he explained. “I think it is a constant thirst and need for attention.”
The same could potentially be said, Megyn and Schulz theorized, for West’s controversial comments about Adolf Hitler or decision to wear a MAGA hat when it was “radioactive” to do so. “He takes the most disliked, radioactive, f-cked up thing and he is like, ‘I’m so cool that I can make this cool,” Schulz noted. “And he has done that throughout his life with fashion and now he does it with talking points… [I think] it is coming from this place of, ‘You’re not going to tell me what I can or can’t like.'”
While that may give the illusion of “total autonomy and freedom,” Schulz believes the opposite is actually true. “Are you really free if you need to do that? Because now you’re being controlled,” he said. “People that are truly free… feel the freedom so they don’t need to execute it every second. People who don’t feel free need to constantly prove that they’re free.”
You can check out Megyn’s full interview with Schulz by tuning in to episode 1,020 on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you like to listen. And don’t forget that you can catch The Megyn Kelly Show live on SiriusXM’s Triumph (channel 111) weekdays from 12pm to 2pm ET.