Look, we knew Tristan Thompson did Khloé Kardashian dirty. But what made one of his many cheating scandals so much worse? The fact it got exposed right before the reality star gave birth… to his child.
In a surprisingly raw conversation on her new Khloé in Wonder Land podcast, the Good American founder reveals for the first time just how badly Tristan’s cheating hurt her — and how those scars will last forever because of their link to True‘s birth.
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Opening up to guest Mel Robbins on Wednesday’s all new episode, she recalled the whole torrent of very public events from her perspective:
“I remember when Tristan had an affair, it was public and I gave birth 48 hours later.”
Yeah, that’s how fast it went — that time. This was long before the Jordyn Woods party incident. We obviously have to narrow it down when talking about Tristan cheating scandals. This was the one when a video of him all up on a girl in the club was published… on April 10. Just two days before True was born. Khloé remembers:
“People were like, ‘Do you want him in the hospital room when you’re giving birth?’ And it was my first baby, and I said, ‘I do, and we’re all going to pretend,’ because of course I had to have all my siblings in the room and my mom.”
She told them to play nice for the sake of her baby:
“I said, ‘We’re all…it’s gonna be hard for you guys, but let’s all act like this didn’t happen, because my daughter’s going to see this home footage one day, and I don’t want her to ever see…’ I was thinking for my daughter, True… I thought of her, and I was like, ‘For her memories, I want her to know her dad was in the room.'”
And they did, and it’s all on tape now…
It was so thoughtful of her — and so like a good mom to think of her baby’s needs before her own. But what about Khloé’s memories? She doesn’t have any. She was so hurt by Tristan’s actions she totally dissociated during the whole thing. She lamented:
“I get sad if I ever see myself [back then], because I can tell I’m blank, and it’s an out of body experience. I just went into autopilot, and I just went into, ‘I’m not here.’ I was not present, but my body was there. I gave birth, I did what I had to do, but it was for her.”
That’s so heartbreaking. And you really can see it in her face in the Keeping Up With The Kardashians footage from the hospital room. She’s just not there.
This man never thought once about how his actions might hurt Khloé. It’s not just something that’s going to sting in the moment, this was a wound that can never heal. He took something from her she can never get back, the beautiful, proud moment of giving birth.
Is it any wonder she went with a surrogate for their second child? We mean, what a horrible experience you’d never want to live through again.
Innerestingly, things were different once the KUWTK cameras were off! Khlo revealed:
“When it was done, he went along, because I was like, ‘I can’t talk to you.’ But [only] when I put my home camera down. I made sure to do what I needed to do for her.”
Khloé hid from the spotlight for a bit after that, retreating and regressing — like she’d learned to do during the various scandals of her previous ex, Lamar Odom. She recalled:
“The crazy thing is that I would draw back to the feelings I had with Lamar. [That’s how] I knew how to deal with this media scandal. I was in Cleveland, Ohio [after I gave birth], so, I was like, let me just stay here for a little bit, because that’s where I gave birth, and I just knew to stay away from the noise, which L.A. has a lot of noise.”
Of course, that meant being all alone, away from the support of her family. But it worked! It was what she needed:
“I was in denial about all the noise. I just don’t want to focus on it. I didn’t give power to it.”
Ultimately she got through it with the love she felt as a new mom:
“I had a brand new baby, and I definitely isolated. I never left my house for a few months, I was just with her… I’d built this little cocoon for her and I, and it was the most magical experience.”
You can see the whole poignant conversation about birth, cheating, and more (below):
Brand new episode of Khloé in Wonder Land is here! NYT bestselling author @MelRobbins joins me to talk about everything from building resilience and embracing vulnerability to creating the perfect morning routine. You can watch the full episode on @X now! pic.twitter.com/wzG4p5oEsg
— Khloé (@khloekardashian) January 29, 2025
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