Khloé Kardashian and Tristan Thompson’s on-again, off-again relationship has been rocky over time, however all the things we’ve discovered in latest months is arguably the worst of all of it.
After tons of infidelity scandals, breakups, and eventual reunions since they started courting in 2016, Khloé and Tristan — who share a 4-year-old daughter named True — gave issues one other shot final 12 months as they rekindled their romance as soon as extra.
However, simply months later, information broke that Tristan had not solely cheated on Khloé once more, however had additionally secretly fathered a toddler exterior of their relationship.
Maralee Nichols, mom of Tristan’s now-9-month-old child boy, Theo, turned pregnant on his thirtieth birthday in March 2021 — the identical night time that Khloé had thrown him a lavish birthday celebration and shared a gushing Instagram submit about him.
Tristan denied the kid was his when Maralee initially sued him for varied child-related bills in December, however in the end conceded that he was the daddy when a DNA check proved his paternity.
What’s extra, Tristan didn’t inform Khloé concerning the being pregnant earlier than the information was made public, leaving her to seek out out with the “rest of the world” when authorized paperwork from the courtroom case had been leaked on-line. Her uncooked response was documented in her household’s Hulu actuality collection, The Kardashians.
And as if that wasn’t unhealthy sufficient, we later discovered that Khloé and Tristan had really been making ready to welcome a toddler of their very own through surrogate at this very time.
Their child boy was born in July this 12 months, and The Kardashians has since revealed that Tristan was really encouraging Khloé to go forward with their surrogacy plans regardless of being conscious that Maralee was pregnant.
But simply after we thought we’d heard the worst of it, Khloé made one other surprising revelation about their relationship within the newest episode of the Hulu present, which aired this week.
While talking about Tristan’s paternity scandal along with her sister, Kim, in a scene filmed within the early months of this 12 months, Khloé ended up revealing that the NBA participant had really proposed to her.
“I mean, the fact that he proposed and you never told us,” Kim tells Khloé as the 2 focus on how unhealthy the connection was. A producer then asks Khloé throughout a confessional, “Tristan proposed to you?” In response, she confirms: “Yeah.”
Kim goes on to disclose extra about Tristan’s proposal plans in a confessional of her personal. “I’ll never forget Tristan calling me, and he was gonna propose to her on Valentine’s Day, which was like a year since they had drama. So this was last Valentine’s Day,” she says.
“And then I called him the day after, and I was like, ‘Hey, I never heard anything from Khloé, oh my God, did you propose?’” she recollects. “And he was like, ‘Oh yeah, I did in December.’”
Khloé then says that she really turned Tristan down, explaining that she wanted to verify she was comfy and pleased within the relationship earlier than accepting a proposal from him.
“I said, ‘I need to make sure that this is a totally different relationship because I wanna be proud to say I’m engaged to anyone,’” she recollects. “And that’s why I said, ‘I’m not comfortable accepting this right now, because I’m not excited to tell my family.’”
“As hurtful as that probably was for him to hear, it was the truth,” she provides. “I’m not ever gonna accept something and give someone false hope. And I said that to him.”
While Kim’s feedback seem to recommend that Tristan proposed in December 2020, sources with insider information instructed BuzzFeed News that the athlete really proposed to Khloé in December 2019.
The sources stated that whereas Khloé didn’t settle for Tristan’s proposal in 2019, the pair ended up discussing issues once more in February 2021, and in the end did get engaged.
The insiders added that Khloé and Tristan had been engaged till she came upon about his paternity scandal in December 2021.
And whereas Khloé and Tristan by no means publicly introduced the information of their engagement, the pair dropped a number of hints about their standing over the next months.
First of all, in Season 1 of The Kardashians — which was filmed within the latter months of final 12 months — Khloé memorably stated marriage was the “end goal” with Tristan after revealing that the NBA participant had mentioned the topic with not simply her, however her mother, Kris Jenner, a number of instances.
“All Tristan talks to me about sometimes is getting married,” Kris instructed Khloé whereas the 2 had been out for lunch in Episode 9. “He’s always talking about how much he wants to regain that trust that he knows that he lost.”
“Yeah, he talks about it all the time,” Khloé agreed, earlier than elaborating in a confessional: “I’m not with Tristan to just float around with Tristan. I mean, marriage is the end goal.”
What’s extra, in Episode 7, Tristan instructed Khloé that she was “never leaving” him because the pair mentioned their future as a pair. “Blood in, blood out… We’re family for life,” he stated, to which she agreed: “I think either way it goes, we’re family if you like it or not.”
But undoubtedly probably the most pointed trace that Khloé dropped was the large diamond ring she started sporting in February 2021 — the very month that she and Tristan had gotten engaged.
Rumors that Tristan had popped the large query reached an all-time excessive that month, after Khloé shared a number of photographs rocking the ring on her left finger throughout Instagram.
She continued to submit photographs with the ring on in March too, and notably wore it at Tristan’s thirtieth birthday celebration that month.
And in April, Tristan left an eyebrow-raising remark below an image she shared that was totally centered on the ring.
Khloé by no means addressed the floods of Instagram feedback about her and Tristan’s relationship standing in response to the ring. However, her mother, Kris, fueled the hypothesis additional after she made a cryptic comment concerning the potential engagement throughout an look on The Ellen Show that very same month.
When requested about Khloé’s ring and the continued hypothesis, Kris neither confirmed nor denied that the star was engaged, as a substitute saying: “That’s a good ring. I think she just loves jewelry. She loves a good, you know, ring!”
She then seemingly deflected issues altogether as she instructed host Ellen DeGeneres, “You should ask Khloe [about it].”
Fast ahead to the top of the 12 months, and — if all else hadn’t — Tristan’s courtroom battle with Maralee seemingly confirmed that he and Khloé had really been engaged.
According to authorized paperwork obtained by a number of shops, Tristan instructed Maralee that he and Khloé could be “married soon” as he tried to encourage her to get an abortion. He additionally purportedly referred to the truth star as his fiancée and stated that they had been planning on publicly asserting the information of their engagement.
“I’m engaged but I will be married soon,” he allegedly wrote in messages to Maralee. “I told you I won’t and can’t be in the child life at all by no means … Why not wait till yoj find the right person to have a family with… Why would you want a baby with a man that’s engaged. You wanna keep a mistake.”
“Just a heads up me and my fiancè gonna announce publicly about out marriage,” he added, in response to the filings. “Just a heads up. We probably moving out the country in September and live either in Europe or Caribbean. Better living for us and our family away from the bs of America.” Tristan by no means publicly confirmed whether or not or not the messages had been legit.
You can watch the newest episode of The Kardashians on Hulu, or Disney+ internationally, now. The subsequent episode will probably be launched on October 5.
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