Kim Kardashian opened up about her struggles as a single mother and gave some praise to her sister Khloe’s ex, Tristan Thompson, on this week’s episode of The Kardashians.
While Thompson was criticized for cheating on Khloe multiple times while they were together – with the exes currently co-parenting five-year-old daughter True and one-year-old son Tatum – Kim, 42, came out to Tristan. 32, defense.
Khloe and Tristan have long since ended their romantic relationship, although Khloe is letting Tristan and his special needs teenage brother Amari stay at her home while his house is being renovated.
In this week’s episode, titled “When Is Being Me Gonna Be Okay,” Kim was asked in confessional what she thought of the serial cheater.
She revealed in the confessional that she defended Tristan and admitted that he was there for her when she was struggling as a single mother after her split from ex Kanye West.
Kim: Kim Kardashian admits she’s “struggling” as a single mother after ugly split from Kanye West and reveals Tristan Thompson “intervened” to attend her son’s basketball games in the rapper’s absence
Breakup: She revealed in a confessional that she defended Tristan and admitted he was there for her when she was struggling as a single mother following her split from ex Kanye West
“Oh, I know the boys are going to hate me for this and you’re going to hate us and you’re going to think Khloe is whatever… It’s so crazy because he’s such a good friend and as good as Dad… but he could do it easy.” “I can’t manage to be a loyal friend in this area,” Kim said.
“So it’s like you obviously want to hate him for that.” “Yeah, of course, his actions and who he was were totally fucked up,” Kim admitted.
“We talked about it, we argued about it and we argued about it,” she added, before defending him.
“But he also showed so many good things and was just a really good person and friend.” “When he saw that I was struggling with my children, he stepped in,” she said.
She added that Tristan “started showing up to games.” “He picked up Saint, goes to dinner with them and will always defend me, especially when it comes to things like me and my ex.”
“And I’ve just never forgotten that, so I’ll never really throw anyone away and act like I don’t feel like they can’t grow and evolve,” Kim adds as a confession.
Tristan’s presence was certainly noticeable at their son Saint’s basketball games, as he played twelve seasons in the NBA for the Cleveland Cavaliers, Boston Celtics, Sacramento Kings, Indiana Pacers, Chicago Bulls and Los Angeles Lakers.
Most recently, he signed a contract last month to return to the team that drafted him 4th overall in 2011 – the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Hate: “Oh, I know the boys are going to hate me for this and you’re going to hate us and you’re going to think Khloe is whatever… It’s so crazy because he’s such a good friend and as good as Dad… but “I just haven’t been able to manage being a loyal friend in this area,” Kim said
Admittedly, “So it’s like you obviously want to hate him for that.” “Yeah, of course, his actions and who he was were totally fucked up,” Kim admitted
Thompson suddenly lost his mother, Andrea, in January and became the sole caregiver for his teenage brother, Amari, who suffers from epilepsy.
Khloe added that Amari is 16 years old. “He is confined to a wheelchair,” before telling her family that Amari had “the most severe form of epilepsy.”
She added: “He’s having the worst seizures you can have and he’s had so many just a day ago that it’s caused such severe brain damage and that’s why he can’t walk or talk or anything like that.”‘
“He’s in a really scary position because once he turns 20, if we can’t make improvements, things will get really bad,” she said.