"Giving me chillssss": YNW Melly multiple personality disorder claim goes viral as tweet resurfaces amid ongoing trial

On June 12, Jamell Maurice Demons, aka YNW Melly, attended the first day of his trial in Florida Court. He is on trial for the alleged double murder of his friends YNW Juvy and YNW SakChaser. The incident occurred on October 26, 2018, in Miramar, Florida.

Amidst the ongoing trial, a 2019 tweet claiming that the rapper has multiple personality disorder has once again gone viral.

Back in 2019, right after his arrest, a Twitter user with the handle @NotChinks posted:

“YNW Melly is actually a bipolar schizophrenic and his other personality (Melvin) is the one who killed his friends.”

The tweet may have been a way for the rapper’s fan to justify his legal ordeal. In fact, the individual had even offered insights into various interviews of YNW Melly with New York-based radio station Power 105.1, YouTuber MONTREALITY, and the publication Genius, wherein he had confessed to living with multiple personality disorder.

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“YNW Melly has split personality disorder or something”: Netizens discuss the rapper's Dissociative Identity Disorder

Charged with two counts of premeditated first-degree murder and now on trial, YNW Melly is looking at life imprisonment or possibly the death penalty, if convicted.

But there is mounting speculation that the Murder on My Mind singer-rapper may be suffering from Dissociative Identity Disorder.

Earlier, during a promotional interview for Mixed Personalities (featuring Kanye West), Melly stated that his dual personalities, Melly and Melvin, each get 12 hours and that the latter usually surfaces at night.

In fact, in an Instagram post, Melly also asked his fans to guess which one was Melvin - the image taken during the day or after dark.

While some internet users showed genuine concern about Melly's plight, others used mockery.

A Twitter user mocking Melly's bipolar disorder. (Image via Twitter/Yay)

A netizen sharing his opinion about Melly's condition. (Image via Twitter/Him)

"I hope that he gets the help he needs" shares a Twitter user after hearing about Melly's possible condition. (Image via Twitter/Kondwani Fidel)

A netizen says he is sad for Melly. (Image via Twitter/WWMD)

A Twitter user asking for Melly's death penalty. (Image via Twitter/Bailey Mitchell)

A Twitter user shared her insight on multiple personality disorders after YNW Melly claimed he had the same. (Image via Twitter/velvet.stool)

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YNW Melly’s trial so far

At the time of the double murder, the victims, YNW Juvy, aka Christopher Thomas Jr., and YNW SakChaser, aka Anthony Williams, were 19 and 21 years old, respectively. On the night of October 16, 2018, they were traveling with YNW Bortlen in his car, and were shot inside it.

The two were rushed to a nearby hospital with multiple gunshot wounds, but were declared dead on arrival. As per the investigation, they were with YNW Melly at the time of the murders. In fact, it is suspected that Melly fired the gun while Bortlen staged the incident as a random “drive-by shooting.”

On day 1 of the trial, the prosecutors presented the court with various pieces of evidence, such as surveillance footage, phone data, DNA, blood splatter reports, and bullet casings, all of which indicate that the suspects were inside the car with their murdered friends at the time of their untimely deaths.

They also claimed that it was indeed Melly who shot his friends and Bortlen who did the framing. Police and hospital staff were put on the stand to help determine the timeline of the event.

Unsurprisingly, Melly’s lawyer claimed that he was still pleading “not guilty” as he had “no reason to murder his friends.” They further insisted that the investigation carried out so far was nothing short of “incomplete and incompetent.”