“He’s ten times worse than what you see.”
Kanye West’s former bodyguard has revealed the extent of the rapper’s “bizarre” and “meltdown”-filled behavior in an interview, shortly after he was reportedly fired for simply speaking to West’s wife, reality television queen Kim Kardashian.
In an extended interview with the UK Sun newspaper, 42-year-old Steve Stanulis — a former New York police officer who worked on West’s security team for a two-week period earlier this year — said he’s “never worked for someone like” West.
“I had to look after his toddler daughter once and it was so much easier than babysitting the father. He’s ten times worse than what you see,” Stanulis told the paper. “You just never knew what would trigger a meltdown.”
Among the rapper’s strangest behavior, Stanulis charged, is his refusal to press his own elevator buttons and his insistence that his security staff wear all black, because “patterns distract him.”
“On the first day we headed to his music studio. When we got into the elevator Kanye just stood there with his arms folded and said, ‘Aren’t you going to press the button?’” Stanulis recalled.
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