News making round reveal that US rapper, Kanye West and his wife Kim Kardashian West are living separately and undergoing marriage counselling.
A source close to the family told NBC News that the couple had been living separately for the past few months, with West, 43, living at his ranch in Wyoming while Kardashian West, 40, and their four children stayed in Calabasas, California.
Kim and Kanye married in 2014 in a grand ceremony in Italy. However, the marriage is said to be rocky in the past few months, according to various reports and speculation.
The couple were going through counselling dealing with “regular relationship issues” and no one else was involved, the source said. “Kanye loves his extended family. They are super close. They have been going to therapy. They are working on their marriage,” the source told NBC News.
People magazine, Page Six and other celebrity gossip outlets, however, said Kardashian West was preparing to file for divorce. Kanye West has opened up about his struggles with bipolar disorder, a mental illness characterized by extreme mood swings.
It is the first marriage for West and the third for Kardashian West, who became popular with the US reality TV series “Keeping Up with the Kardashians”.