Following his statement on his blog, Kanye West talked about what happened on the VMA at Jay Leno’s interview on his primetime show. He told Jay that he was so hurt when her mother passed away last 2007 and that’s the main cause why he stood up and jump on the stage to steal Taylor Swift’s moment.

“You know, I deal with hurt,” said West. “And you know, so many celebrities, they never take time off. I’ve never taken the time off to really-you know, just music after music and tour after tour.”

“I’m just ashamed that my hurt caused someone else’s hurt — and I don’t try to justify it because I was just in the wrong. That’s period,” he went on. “But I need to, after this, take some time off and just analyze how I’m going to make it through the rest of this life, how I’m going to improve. Because I am a celebrity, and that’s something I have to deal with. “

“And if there’s anything I could do to help Taylor in the future or help anyone, I’d like-you know, I want to live this thing. It’s hard sometimes.”

“Just dealing with the fact that I hurt someone or took anything away, you know, from a talented artist or from anyone, because I only wanted to help people,” he said. “My entire life, I’ve only wanted to give and do something that I felt was right. And I immediately knew in the situation that it was wrong, and it wasn’t a spectacle or just — you know, it’s actually someone’s emotions, you know, that I stepped on. And it was very — it was just — it was rude, period. And, you know, I’d like to be able to apologize to her in person. And I wanted to….” he said.

Jay asked Kanye on when did he realize that he have done wrong: “As soon as I gave the mic back to her and she didn’t keep going.” Kanye answered.