Kanye West CRIES over death of former fashion mentor in radio interview

We’re not really used to seeing Kanye West show any emotion – he certainly doesn’t smile very often and we’ve never seen him cry… until now.

The rapper got totes emosh during an interview with Zane Lowe on BBC Radio 1 yesterday.

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Kanye broke down in tears as he spoke about his style mentor, Professor Louise Wilson, describing her as the “greatest fashion instructor of all time”.

He said: “We had dinner at Hakkasan, which is my favourite restaurant in London.

“I think she knew that she was going to pass, and she just wanted to give me some words of advice moving forward, and she was asking me about my daughter, asked me about my wife…

“And she said, you know, ‘So many students. They don’t give it their all, and the problem is, soon as they do anything halfway good when they’re two-years-old, three-years-old, their parents clap.’”

Kanye then covered his eyes with his hands and cried, asking to take a break from the interview and admitted that talking about the Professor was “kinda hard”.

The star, who performed at the BRITs in London on Wednesday night, paid tribute to his former mentor at St Paul’s Cathedral last Friday in her special memorial service after her death in May last year.

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