Kanye West's former security guard wants one subject kept out of their upcoming Donda Academy employment trial, any attempt to argue that Ye was of "unsound mind" during the period covered by Benjamin Deshon Provo's discrimination and wrongful-termination claims.
Provo has asked a Los Angeles judge to bar that argument after an Aug. 24 pretrial discussion in which, according to his attorneys, Ye's counsel would not agree to keep the rapper's mental-health history out of the case. Provo's side says mental health was never pleaded as an affirmative defense and no supporting medical records or expert testimony were produced during discovery.
The new filing is a pretrial attempt to determine what his lawyers may argue or introduce when the civil case is heard, and TMZ reports that Provo wants the court to prevent the issue from being raised at all.
Provo's lawyers are also relying on Ye's own deposition. Asked whether he felt he was not himself around the period when he ran Donda Academy, Ye answered no and said that time was "close to me being myself."
According to MyNewsLA, Provo's attorneys say the issue surfaced during an Aug. 24 meeting over pretrial motions. They claim Ye's counsel said he was "certainly not agreeing" to exclude references to Ye's "documented mental health issues" because those issues could relate to things Ye had said.

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