Kim Kardashian Breaks Down Telling Kanye He ‘Changed' In New Documentary Trailer

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Directed by Nico Ballesteros, In Whose Name? will capture the worsening mental health of Kanye West and his deteriorating relationship with Kim Kardashian.
Kanye West's turbulent life and career are taking centre stage in the new documentary, titled In Whose Name? On Wednesday, August 13, the makers dropped the trailer of the upcoming film, which will offer a closer and unfiltered look into the rapper's personal and public battles, also featuring his former wife, Kim Kardashian.
The one-minute trailer begins with Kanye, who is now known as Ye, walking in a circle surrounded by Yeezy sneakers, likely from his 2019 Forbes cover shoot. In the voiceover, the rapper reveals, 'I'm off my meds for five months now." The trailer then cuts to him closing a door with his ex-wife Kim's name written over it. The Skims founder, trying to hold back her tears, says, 'Your personality was not like this a few years ago."
According to Deadline, the documentary, directed by Nico Ballesteros, features thousands of hours of material, which were shot over a period of six years. The private moments captured by the young filmmaker will show the worsening mental health struggles of the 48-year-old rapper, alongside his deteriorating marriage to Kim Kardashian, loss of sponsorships and disturbing declarations.
Kanye West And Kim Kardashian Have A Tense Exchange In The Trailer
The trailer further showed the softer side of Kanye, where he was seen riding with his eldest daughter, North West, who is 11 now. And it also captured his bouts of anger, where he says, 'Never tell me I'm gonna wake up one day and have nothing." The video then cuts to Kim, where she is seen having a tense exchange with her ex-husband. In that moment, she tells him, 'We can talk about that later, but," and before she could even finish her sentence, Kanye cuts her off and adds, 'It ain't no but!"
The trailer of the documentary only gets more dramatic from there. It showed Kanye's infamous 2020 presidential campaign, including the South Carolina rally where he tearfully claimed that he and Kim had almost aborted their daughter, North. Furthermore, he says, 'I would rather be dead than be on medication… Either they destroy me or I destroy it." At one point, Kanye also mentions, 'They're killing our ability to think outside of the box," and 'I'm almost like a masochist… I write whatever I want when I want! It's words!"
When Is 'In Whose Name' Premiering?
The clip ends with the saying, 'You know the best thing about being an artist and bipolar? Anything you do and say is an art piece." He opened up about his mental health struggles in 2018, confirming through his album Ye that he was bipolar. In 2025, the rapper claimed that he was misdiagnosed with bipolar disorder and mentioned that he was actually on the autism spectrum. From Kanye To Ye: In Whose Name will premiere on just 1,000 screens on September 19. It will be released by AMSI Entertainment in partnership with AMC, Regal, and Cinemark theatre chains.
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