United Kingdom, May 29 -- Scooter Braun is open to speaking with Kanye West to help the rapper's "salvation and growth".

The former music manager - who oversaw the Stronger hitmaker's career between 2016 to 2018 - hasn't spoken to the controversial star for some time and admitted he found his anti-semitic comments "very upsetting", but after Kanye apologised earlier this year via a full-page adveristement in the Wall Street Journal, which attributed his actions to a lengthy manic episode, Scooter is keen to help him if he can.

Speaking to Suzy Weiss on her Second Thought podcast, Scooter said: "We separated, and obviously the things that he's gone through and the things he's said been have been very upsetting to me. But I'm I look back ...