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Donda West’s plastic surgeon pens open letter to Kanye West following album cover claims

Donda West died in 2007 after going under the knife

Credit: L. Gallo / WENN

The late Donda West’s plastic surgeon Jan Adams has penned an open letter to Kanye West.

Over the weekend, the rapper revealed his plans to use a photo of the surgeon as the artwork for his upcoming album.

Kanye’s mother Donda died back in 2007 of heart disease and “multiple post-operative factors”, the day after Jan Adams performed liposuction and breast reduction surgery on her.

Kanye shared a screenshot on Twitter of a conversation between him and someone called Wes.

The Life of Pablo rapper shared a photo of Jan, and wrote, “This is my album cover,” before adding, “I want to forgive and stop hating.”

The surgeon has since issued an open letter to Kanye, which was published by The Blast.

The letter reads, “I ask that you cease and desist using my photo or any image of me to promote your album or any of your work. I don’t want to seem ungrateful, I just think that if in fact this conversion to love is genuine on your part… then it’s inappropriate to drag the negativity of the past with it.”

Jan went on to point out that the Los Angeles Coroner’s report into his mother’s death cleared him of any wrongdoing.

“The Los Angeles coroner determined that Donda died of heart disease while suffering from ‘multiple post-operative factors’ after plastic surgery,” he wrote.

He also alleged that Kanye’s cousin Stephan Scoggins left his mother alone after surgery, when he was supposed to be her primary caregiver.

He continued, “So if your journey is true to ‘forgive and stop hating’….start by dealing with the facts. Perhaps you should put your cousin’s picture on your next album. Don’t put my picture out there and claim you are about love.”

In response to Jan’s open letter, Kanye wrote on Twitter, “Thank you so much for this connection brother. I can’t wait to sit with you and start healing.”

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