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Kim Kardashian is gearing up for the premiere of The Kardashians, as well as her new scripted series, All’s Fair, both of which are set to air on Hulu. Now, ahead of the premieres, she’s opening up about rumors she’s hooked up with Travis Barker, her co-parenting relationship with Kanye West, and what she considers to be the most challenging thing she’s gone through.
Hulu released the trailer for season seven of The Kardashians on October 1. In it, Kim could be seen revealing that someone had put a hit out on her life. Additionally, the new season will feature some of her All’s Fair co-stars.
Kim recently sat down for an interview on Alex Cooper’s Call Her Daddy podcast. One of the biggest takeaways from the interview came when Alex asked Kim if she had ever hooked up with Travis in the past. Notably, he’s married to Kim’s sister, Kourtney Kardashian, and has been since 2022.
“No, I never have,” Kim responded. “Absolutely, that, I do not mind you asking. I never have, and that really sucks that has gone on, but he dated Paris, and we were all friends, and we’d all hang out, and when I was with Paris, we’d be on the road and go to, like, their tour in Amsterdam.”
She went on, “So, I have been friends with him, but never like in that way, and never, yeah, never hooked up with him.” From there, Alex asked if she had a heads up about being mentioned in his memoir, and she said, “No. But also, Kourtney was around during that time. They were neighbors for a decade.”
Later, Alex brought up Kanye and asked about the state of her co-parenting relationship with the controversial rapper. Kim first joked, “What do you think co-parenting with Kanye West is like?”
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Kim then said, “It’s not easy, but I mean, I raise the kids, you know, full time, they live with me, and I welcome a great, healthy relationship with my kids and their dad.”
“And I think he knows that,” she continued. “I push for it all the time, but I also protect them when, you know, it’s time for that, and it goes in waves and phases, and it’s a lot of work, but, like I said earlier, I have the best memories and the best relationship with my dad.”
From there, she said, “And even I love that I see Tristan puts their kids to bed every night and takes them to school every day when he’s not in season, so I just welcome healthy relationships, but it’s not easy.”
Alex continued the conversation by asking when Kanye last saw the kids. The All’s Fair actress responded, “Whenever he’ll call for them and ask, it’s probably been a couple of months since we’ve heard from him.”
Regarding how she manages her kids’ disappointment over not seeing Kanye for long periods, Kim said they’ve always known he “had a big life traveling before and was always on tour and all of that.”
She added, “We manage it really well. They love their life and their routine and their schedule, and I think just my job as their mom is to make sure they stick to the routine and they’re healthy and happy, and you know, it’s not easy no matter what — co-parenting with anyone.”
Kim went on, “And I think that the one thing that just gets me is there’s this narrative that like I keep the kids away from him. I’ve never once done that.” Kim also discussed seeing people say she’s kidnapped the kids from Kanye.
According to her, “It’s not a kidnapping. It’s a divorce. We can still all be in each other’s lives and have group dinners.” From there, she shared advice that Kris Jenner had given her, which was that sometimes it takes five years after a divorce for things to “come together.”
She then doubled down, “Every time he has asked, I will always let them see their father, that’s just who I am. If there’s a time when it’s just really super unhealthy, I’ll say, ‘Hey, let’s do it here at my house, or let’s figure out a different time.'”
Kim also stated that when he’s going through difficult times with his mental health, he typically doesn’t ask to see the kids. This came after Alex mentioned some of his social media outbursts.
Additionally, she mentioned that the kids have often visited him in various parts of the world. She cited Saudi Arabia and Japan. Kim also said that there have been times she’s wanted to dispel the rumors about her keeping the kids from Kanye, but she ultimately decided, “You know, what’s the point?” She also said that she doesn’t speak negatively of him because, “It’s out there. The last thing my kids need is to hear it from me, and I never saw my parents talk bad about each other.”
Another notable section of the interview came when Alex asked Kim about the hardest thing she and her family have gone through publicly. She said, “Maybe the transition of my stepdad.”
She continued, “I think that my mom didn’t know how to handle it. Imagine Kendall and Kylie are like losing their father in their mind, and at that time, Caitlyn wasn’t very open with us about her transition and just kind of came out with it.”
Kim went on, “So, we had lots of different mixed emotions. I know Khloe was super emotional and upset about it, so we just never, you know, we’re like learning for the first time, and then we wanna be supportive for our little sisters, trying to be supportive for our mom, that’s now getting a divorce, and making sure we don’t say anything super offensive.”
Kim added that they “didn’t really know anything” and that they just had to “figure it out.” When asked how they got through it, she said, “Just family.”