Pete Davidson in trauma therapy over Kanye West’s harassment over relationship with Kim Kardashian

Pete Davidson has been visiting a therapist to process trauma he experienced after months of online harassment from Kanye West over his relationship with Kim Kardashian, which included a celebratory post after they recently split.

The news about the 28-year-old comic/actor comes after Dailymail.com’s exclusive story in which a source said Kim Kardashian found West’s Instagram post on Monday – an image of a fake New York Times newspaper with the headline ‘Skete Davidson dead at age 28’ – ‘appalling.’

Kardashian, 41, ‘has been vigorously defending Pete’ and ‘won’t stand for this type of behavior from’ West, 45, the source told Dailymail.com of the post, which West later removed.

The Staten Island, New York native was triggered by ‘the attention and negativity coming from Kanye and his antics … and he’s had to seek out help,’ an insider close to the Saturday Night Live alum told People Monday.

Davidson since April ‘has been in trauma therapy in large part’ due to the threatening posts West put up during the comic’s relationship with his ex-wife, the insider said.

Davidson ‘has no regrets for dating Kim and wants it to be made very clear that she’s been nothing but supportive of him throughout their relationship,’ the source said, adding that ‘moving forward, he just wants to focus on his career.’

The Monday post from West also included a line that read, ‘Kid Cudi meant to play funeral but fearful of bottle throwers,’ referring to an incident in which concertgoers at the Rolling Loud Miami festival in July pelted water bottles at Kid Cudi, 38, whose friendship with Davidson is the source of hard feelings between him and West.

Both reps for Kardashian and Davidson have contacted Instagram to report the post, a source told People, noting that ‘his team and Kim’s have reached out repeatedly to Instagram asking to make the platform a safer space.’

Davidson has ‘been absent from social media’ as result of frequent attacks from West, an insider told the outlet.

West in March released a claymation video for his track Eazy, in which he depicted himself committing violent acts against a character resembling Davidson.

West also took to social media in March and said he was ‘really concerned’ that Davidson would get Kardashian ‘hooked on drugs,’ adding, ‘He’s in rehab every 2 months.’

Davidson and Kardashian parted ways last week after a romance that began in October of 2021, with a source previously telling the outlet that ‘part of the reason they split was because of their busy schedules,’ as ‘they both travel all the time and it was hard.’

The trauma therapy did not lead to Davidson and Kardashian’s split, a Kardashian source told People, as ‘she’s upset about the breakup.’