In what has been a tough month for Kanye West, news is now circulating as to the reason behind his recent ‘breakdown’.
The 39-year-old rapper was reportedly forced to pay a family member $250,000 (€240,000) after they threatened to release a sex tape of the father-of-two they found on a laptop he had gifted them.
The family member is said to have stumbled across the tape, with Kanye apparently in clear view, and called an attorney knowing that it would make them a huge profit.
After receiving numerous offers from news outlets and porn sites, the relative decided to sell it to Kanye for a whopping quarter of a million dollars.
The incident left Kanye feeling distrustful of his family and close friends and caused him to become distant according to his cousin, Lawrence Franklin who also says it played a massive part in Kanye's recent hospitalisation.
The Grammy award winner wrote about the betrayal in his song Real Friends saying:
"I had a cousin that stole my laptop that I was f**kin' b*tches on. Paid that n***a 250 thousand just to get it from him. Real friends, huh?"
Lawrence also revealed that Kanye is still grieving the death of his mother, Donda who died in 2007 and says apparently she would not approve of his new life and family.
“Kanye comes from a very family-orientated environment with roots and African American family lifestyle," Lawrence told the Daily Mail.
“The Kardashians are the complete opposite of what's familiar in our community.
“Aunt Donda represented class, dignity and respect, woman power and black power and she loved God.
“So she would not have approved of Kim Kardashian - that's the truth.”
