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Kim Kardashian Says Ye Would Give Away Their Lamborghinis While Having a Mental ‘Episode’

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2 days ago

October 16, 2025

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Years after her divorce from Ye (formerly known as Kanye West), Kim Kardashian is opening up about the very real challenges of being married to someone with mental health issues.

While guesting on the Wednesday (Oct. 15) episode of Call Her Daddy, the Skims mogul revealed new details about her tumultuous relationship with the rapper, who at different points has said that he has bipolar disorder and autism. Throughout his marriage to Kardashian and in the years since, Ye has publicly demonstrated erratic behavior, from going on antisemitic rants on X and in interviews to accusing his ex-wife of trying to “kidnap” their children.

“People can say that there were signs, and maybe I wasn’t paying attention to them,” Kardashian told host Alex Cooper of the period of time when her marriage first started falling apart. “I think when someone has their first mental break, you want to be super supportive and you want to help figure that out. But when someone isn’t willing to make changes that I think would be super healthy and beneficial, it makes it really hard to continue on in a relationship that can be toxic.”

“When you have kids, it’s definitely harder to leave than it is to stay, and it changes everyone’s life, and forever,” she continued. “Once you get to a place where you feel like it’s not going to change or get better, you have to make some serious choices on what you’re going to do. And that’s a really hard reality to face.”

Kardashian and Ye tied the knot in 2014 and welcomed four children together — North, Saint, Chicago and Psalm. In 2016, Ye was involuntarily hospitalized after suffering what was said to be a “psychiatric emergency” that led to “temporary psychosis due to sleep deprivation and dehydration.”

Five years later, Kardashian filed for divorce. Their split was settled in 2022.

But while they were still married, the Keeping Up With the Kardashians star says that she struggled with “just not feeling safe … not even physically, just like maybe emotionally or even financially.”

“I would like come home, and we had, like, five Lamborghinis, and I’d come home and they’d all be gone if he was in an episode,” she shared on Call Her Daddy. “And I’d be like, ‘Oh, wait. Where’s all our cars? Like, my new car?’ And it would be like, ‘Oh, he gave them away to all of his friends.'”

After their split, Kardashian would go on to date Pete Davidson, whom Ye would proceed to repeatedly taunt online. At one point, the hip-hop star released a music video featuring a claymation figure of himself burying the Saturday Night Live alum’s decapitated head.

“That made me feel really sad,” Kardashian told Cooper, noting that the incident has made her wary of publicly dating anyone else. “That really wasn’t fair for [Pete]. I felt so sad and sorry for him. It must suck to be put in that position. It’s had me put up this guard where I don’t want to put anyone in that position, so it’s easier if I just stay away — but I can’t live my life like that.”

These days, the reality TV icon said says that she’s focused on raising her children and hopes to someday have a healthy co-parenting relationship with Ye. She also said, however, that it’s been a “couple of months” since her family last heard from the musician.

But despite how difficult it was to leave her marriage, Kardashian knows she made the right choice. “I had to save myself to be a better mom for everyone,” she said on the podcast. “I think when everyone’s older, they’ll be able to understand it.”

Billboard has reached out to Ye’s rep for comment.

Watch the full episode of Call Her Daddy above.

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XG Announce Japanese Dates for Kick-Off of 2026 World Tour

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October 18, 2025

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Japanese girl group XG announced the initial dates for their second world tour on Friday (Oct. 17), which is slated to kick off on Feb. 6 with the first of three shows at K-Arena Yokohama in Yokohama, Japan. Following a run of 10 more shows in Japan, a press release announcing the outing promised as-yet-unannounced shows in North America, U.K. and Europe, Australia, Latin America and other regions.

Exclusive early ticket reservations for the 13 Japan dates will open to members of XG’s ALPHAZ fan club will begin on Nov. 1, with additional details coming soon.

The tour is in support of the septet’s upcoming debut album, which is due out on Jan. 23. Last month, JURIN, CHISA, HINATA, HARVEY, JURIA, MAYA and COCONA released the first taste of the LP, the high-energy French-English dance burner “Gala,” which debuted at No. 10 on Billboard‘s U.S. Dance Digital Song Sales chart. At the time of the single’s release, MAYA told The Hollywood Reporter, “This song was mainly inspired by the iconic Met Gala. We tried so many new things, choreography wise, music wise and fashion wise, so we’re really excited to showcase that. I feel like this song is really XG.”

HARVEY added, “I think it’s fair to say that we’ve grown a lot since we first debuted, but personally I think we became a lot more fearless when it comes to challenging ourselves to new things. Especially with ‘Gala,’ I think we can see that come into play fully. We’ve challenged ourselves to try many different dances and a new sense of fashion that we haven’t done before to become bolder. In that sense, I think we’ve seen ourselves come a long way.”

XG’s first world tour, 2024’s The first HOWL, included 47 shows across 35 cities around the world in front of 400,000 fans, capped off this spring when they were the only Japanese artists to perform at the Coachella Festival.

Check out the dates for XG’s 2026 tour below.

Feb. 6: Yokohama, Japan @ K-Arena Yokohama
Feb. 7: Yokohama, Japan @ K-Arena Yokohama
Feb. 8: Yokohama, Japan @ K-Arena Yokohama
Feb. 17: Osaka, Japan @ Osaka-Jo Hall
Feb. 18: Osaka, Japan @ Osaka-Jo Hall
Feb. 21: Nagoya, Japan @ IG Arena
Feb. 22: Nagoya, Japan @ IG Arena
March 14: Fukui, Japan @ Sundome Fukui
March 20: Sendai, Japan @ Miyagi Sekisuiheim Super Arena
March 25: Kobe, Japan @ GLION Arena Kobe
March 26: Kobe, Japan @ GLION Arena Kobe
April 4: Fukuoka, Japan @ Kitakyushu Messe
April 5: Fukuoka, Japan @ Kitakyushu Messe

Billboard’s Live Music Summit will be held in Los Angeles on Nov. 3. For tickets and more information, click here.

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Sen. Martin Heinrich Backs Cardi B’s Claims About the Economy & Cost of Living Being Too High: She ‘Is Right’

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October 18, 2025

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Cardi B has often been outspoken about political matters in the United States, and she recently slammed the economy’s rent prices while thanking fans for purchasing and supporting her new album, Am I the Drama?. And now, a senator is voicing his agreement with the rapper’s concerns about economic issues.

“I feel so bad because I didn’t realize how quickly they raised the rent prices. And I’m out here asking y’all to buy my album and s—t. I’m so sorry, y’all,” Cardi had said during an Instagram Live session earlier this week. “When I was looking at those rent prices, I was so f—king disgusted. They need to make it easier to get welfare to get a little help.”

New Mexico’s Sen. Martin Heinrich, who is a member of the Democratic party, got wind of Cardi’s sentiments and backed her up while supporting her worries about the cost of living skyrocketing across the country when it comes to rent, groceries and health-care premiums.

“@iamcardib is right. And it’s not just rent that’s going up–costs are rising across the board,” the senator wrote on X on Thursday (Oct. 16). “From your rent to your groceries to your utility bills to your health care premiums, this administration is making your life more expensive and Republicans in Congress aren’t doing anything to stop them.”

.@iamcardib is right. And it’s not just rent that’s going up–costs are rising across the board. From your rent to your groceries to your utility bills to your health care premiums, this administration is making your life more expensive and Republicans in Congress aren’t doing… https://t.co/XQuM8wf1Eb

— Martin Heinrich (@SenatorHeinrich) October 16, 2025

According to the USDA, food prices in America rose 3.2 percent from August 2024 to August 2025, which went up faster than inflation during the same timeframe (up 2.9 percent).

Amid the murky economic conditions, the Bardi Gang still came out to support Cardi B, as her anticipated sophomore album, Am I the Drama?, debuted atop the Billboard 200 with 200,000 album-equivalent units earned.

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The Last Dinner Party’s ‘From The Pyre’: All 10 Tracks Ranked

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1 day ago

October 17, 2025

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Underpinning The Last Dinner Party’s polished, Rococo-era aesthetic is an epic striving for greatness. When the London-formed five-piece crashed into the indie consciousness two years ago, they arrived seemingly fully-formed, with a fairytale arc to their origin story. Major record labels had clamoured over them after YouTube footage of a set at the tiny Windmill pub in Brixton gathered momentum in late 2022, leading to a deal with Island.

The success of the storming and anthemic debut single “Nothing Matters” made the group, alongside recent Billboard U.K. cover stars Wet Leg, a rare British guitar band from the last few years admitted to the genre’s increasingly rarefied upper echelons. It was a remarkable rise, though perhaps what’s more admirable is how The Last Dinner Party turned all of that immediate attention into a foundation for longevity as a unit.

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Rather than blast straight into the theaters it could have filled, the group toured smaller venues and took a step back from media commitments in order to grow their confidence as performers, honing one of the most energetic live shows on the circuit. Yet in the U.K., The Last Dinner Party’s swift ascent became subject to scrutiny online, with the term “industry plant” disproportionately thrown its way; images of early gigs from 2021 onwards, however, show that the band had been steadily gathering a cult following for years prior to its mainstream crossover moment.

By early 2024, their BRIT and Mercury Prize-nominated debut LP Prelude to Ecstasy reached the top of the Official U.K. Albums Chart with the biggest opening week for a debut by a band in the U.K. since 2015. Unlike its explosively successful predecessor, which was buoyed by tight, richly-decorated pop melodies, new record From the Pyre is darker and more ambitious. These 10 songs see The Last Dinner Party weave tales of greed and obsession, hinting at a fabulist side to its writing by pulling from Greek mythology, and references such as Joan Of Arc, apocalyptic imagery and the Medieval age.

With an extensive U.K. headline tour on the horizon, including first-time arena billings, From the Pyre arrives as The Last Dinner Party makes good on years of industry hype with a definitive artistic statement. Consider the moment met. See our ranking of the 10 songs from From the Pyre below.