As CB discussed yesterday, Kris “Lucifer’s Homegirl” Jenner has been trying to steal focus from Bruce Jenner’s big announcement since the 20/20 special aired, pretty much. During the ABC special last Friday, Diane Sawyer noted that ABC had reached out to all of Bruce’s ex-wives and Kris was the only one saying “no comment.” That night, Kris got into a juvenile tweet-battle with Perez Hilton. Perez tweeted: “Kris Jenner has no comment for ABC news and the #BruceJenner interview. His other two ex-wives give supportive statements.” Lucifer’s Homegirl snapped: “@PerezHilton f–k you Perez no one asked me to comment ….and I’m sitting with Bruce now watching this show so let’s keep it real…LOL….”
That was the first statement Kris made and it set off a minor firestorm. After that, Kris tweeted: “Not only was I able to call him my husband for 25 years and father of my children, I am now able to call him my hero.” But people were still side-eyeing the “no comment” to ABC and the tweet to Perez. Especially since it seems like Kris was (shock!) lying about “sitting with Bruce now” during the airing of the special. Radar claims that Kris only made a “pit stop” at Bruce’s viewing party in Malibu and “She was off to the side and looking really aloof. She wasn’t into being there….She ended up walking out after a few minutes. She wasn’t even watching it!”
After Kris’s tweet to Perez, Diane Sawyer doubled-down on her claim that they contacted Kris and got a “no comment”. And now ABC News is backing up Diane Sawyer and it’s gotten so bad that “a statement issued to People Magazine on behalf of Kris Jenner” is in the mix somehow:
Though both Chrystie Scott and Linda Thompson provided comment to Diane Sawyer for her bombshell interview with Bruce Jenner, in which he came out as transgender, Sawyer said in the interview that one of his former wives – Kris Jenner – had declined to comment. Kris, 59, told a different story on Twitter. In response to a Tweet from Perez Hilton speculating about why Kris hadn’t spoken for the special, Jenner wrote, in part, “no one asked me to comment.”
A statement issued to PEOPLE on behalf of Kris Jenner attempted to clarify matters: “Kris does not have official representation but a message was left at her office and she was asked for fact checking. Kris said she was unable to respond because she had not seen the special. She did not say, ‘No comment.’ ”
However, ABC is standing by Sawyer.
“ABC News sent an email to her publicity team more than once,” reads a network statement released to PEOPLE. “They called and said no comment.”
Other than calling her ex a “hero” on Twitter following the interview, Kris has largely stayed silent on the issue, though she will have her say soon.
In advance of E!’s eight-part docuseries chronicling Bruce’s transition from male to female, the network will host a special next month “that will capture intimate family conversations where [Bruce’s] transition and what it means for those relationships is discussed,” reads a statement. More details will be released soon, but Kris, Khloé, Kourtney, Scott Disick and Kendall and Kylie Jenner will all be featured.
File this under “Lucifer’s Homegirl Always Finds a Way to Pimp.” We can also cross-file this under “Lucifer’s Homegirl Got Caught in a Lie So She’s Deflecting.” Kris was clearly contacted by ABC. Kris or someone working for or with Kris issued a “no comment.” But Kris didn’t expect the reaction to Bruce’s announcement to be so overwhelmingly positive. So Kris immediately went into pimp mode and now everything that’s come out since is just Kris hustling for her own payday, via E! and probably a few other outlets. Maybe Kris wants her own 20/20 special, a special to focus on what’s really important: KRIS JENNER.
Oh, two more Radar stories of note. Apparently, Kris is “livid” at how detailed Bruce was during the interview and she considered suing Bruce… for telling his own story. Think about that. But Radar says she’s probably not going to sue, even though she’s pretty pissed off that Bruce had his own thoughts, opinions and feelings about their marriage. And another Radar story claims that Diane Sawyer is pissed that Kris blatantly lied about everything and Sawyer wants KRIS to apologize publicly. Good luck with that, Diane.
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Still don’t get how all of this is being turned on Kris. Hate her for other stuff, but seriously let her off the hook for the Bruce stuff. Her husband of 20+ years is literally in the process of becoming a woman. Give the girl a break. Her behavior at this time isn’t going to be perfect.
She’s known about Bruce’s gender identity since she met him, and it would be easier to forgive her for this behavior if this wasn’t how she always behaves (lies and schemes for days).
The interview I watched said he hid it from her, and she didn’t know the extent of it. She thought he liked to cross dress sometimes. That’s not the same as wanting gender reassignment. It’s not.
From the one I watched, she knew he had breasts from taking womans hormones before they met and dressed female. She also knew why he had started with the hormones in the 80’s before stopping. She’s just trying to act like the only wife who he hadn’t told
@originaltessa: he’d been taking estrogen for years and had C cup breasts when he met Kris, not to mention a lot of rumors were swirling about him. If Kris didn’t know she was willfully ignorant. It could also be that she’s trying to save her reputation, because it looks like she was party to him choosing to stay a man if she knew the whole time. Had Bruce gone through his transition in the early 90s he would have faced a very, very different public reaction. It’s likely that both parties made some pragmatic decisions.
Bruce said she’s known about hormones and how he felt in the past, but she probably figured he’d changed his mind for good. Everyone knows she lies all the time, so I would believe Bruce.
Bruce stopped the transition process though which isnt unusual (cant get hold of figures as I am on mobile but a good chunk change their minds during the process, some even after genital reassignment surgery!).
Bruce himself has said that he didnt present this honestly to Kris. You meet someone in the midst of HRT and he quits the process to date you. That doesnt communicate certainty on his part.
At best it says he was very very confused. At worst it says he was very very selfish, thought he could “trick” this person into a life together and then convince her to go lesbian while he transitions.
Kris gets blamed for trying to “change” Bruce but its pretty clear from the ceasing of HRT that Bruce thought he could change Kris mind/irientation once she was locked in a marriage with kids.
In any case, what kept him from divorcing her sooner and pursuing this transition by himself? Silly question I know…..he is a money and fame whore who got away with it all these years because it was easier to blame the women for duplicity than the male Olympic hero. Nothings changed there apparently.
He stopped his transition for almost 25 years. She could’ve been genuinely shocked he decided to go through with it after all these years.
“In any case, what kept him from divorcing her sooner and pursuing this transition by himself? Silly question I know…..he is a money and fame whore who got away with it all these years because it was easier to blame the women for duplicity than the male Olympic hero. Nothings changed there apparently.”
So so true. The length people go to excuse Bruce of any responsibility for anything even before his announcement is astonishing to me.
THANK YOU!!!
she knew, she had no takers after her divorce and “meager” monies from her EX. She married Bruce regardless.
She lied about the comments, she could have said “I have no comment now and need privacy” instead she chooses to LIE about ABC contacting her.
her greed will be her downfall.
@L&Mmommy
Bruce didn’t divorce Kris she the one who filed the papers. Just like he didn’t divorce her other two wives they divorced him when they found out.
Kris knew he was transcending from the beginning. She also caught him wearing women clothing multiple time over the course of their marriage so why didn’t she divorce him years ago? she was not blindside by anything. I think they both got something from their marriage Kris got fortune, fame and connections and Bruce got security and it work for them for many years until they didn’t need each other anymore.
@ The Other Pinky
No said she was trying to change him.
I am sensitive to the fact that there are 3 wives and 10 kids involved in this family that have been affected by Bruce’s decision and they all deserve understanding, especially Kris Jenner because she was his current wife.
I think Bruce met Kris, fell in love, and changed his mind at the time about the gender reassignment process. However, he probably changed his mind back again during his marriage to PMK, but waited until all his kids were grown to proceed.
I think PMK knew about his gender issues all along, but I also think we must give her a break because she may have been in love with him and when he went back to his decision to go ahead with gender reassignment after 25 years with PMK, it must have torn her apart. At least I would imagine so.
I also think it is one thing to cross-dress and another to physically become a woman, so I assume that is why Kris Jenner ended up filing for divorce because even though she may love Bruce, she is not sexually into women.
I feel bad for Bruce Jenner not being able to be his true self all these years, but I also feel that he had the freedom of choice and he made his choices. Even though I loathe PMK, I am going to excuse her behavior considering that this must be very hard on her.
She lies when she doesn’t have to lie. She micromanages everything and in this case it backfired.
That is exactly what she does, Minx. She’s always known, just like his other two wives knew. Kris Jenner is a lying pimp, nothing but a lying pimp, and always will be a lying pimp. No respect or sympathy, and she doesn’t deserve any.
Yep yep. She is the worst.
I notice that all the women in that family do that. They just lie about the most basic and senseless things. Lying just to lie.
I don’t know why she has to overexplain herself. Sometimes it’s just best not to comment. If she doesn’t feel like commenting because she feels hurt about this that’s fine. However, her trying to deflect and deny is just horrible. Silence is golden. If she didn’t feel like getting on the support bandwagon I think she won’t be blamed due to the circumstances. The other exes had years to digest this. She didn’t so I don’t think anyone would have blamed her for saying “no comment.”
The current back and forth between her and the media is stupid though.
@Minx said it better than I could. We’ll never know exactly how much she knew, but this would be extremely difficult for anyone, so I will give her that. But, for me, the constant lies and manipulation don’t get a pass, because this is typical KJ.
I don’t care for Kris at all, but heck, if my husband decided to become a woman I would be freaking out! I wouldn’t be PC at all. He obviously decided to go on with the marriage to a woman, instead of becoming a woman himself. Everybody needs to back off and let these people have feelings. This is a lot to digest for anyone, including fame hungry people like her.
Her time to freak out and not be “PC” was when he first revealed his feelings to her. If a man I was dating had C-cups and wore women’s clothes, I would make the decision to move on. But Kris decided to marry Bruce anyway, so that’s on her.
More likely, it speaks to Kris’s early aspirations of fame and wealth as well as her controlling nature that she would think she could “reverse” his desire to be a woman.
Exactly, Kitten. It’s not like Kris found out about this last Friday. She’s had a long time to process all of this, especially if it was one of the reasons that they divorced.
Kitten, she married a man who had stopped the transitioning. She definitely knew he was somewhere on the queer scale but he clearly deceived her on how far it went.
Incidentally, there are many straight men who cross dress and dont wish to transition. It sounds like she thought this is where he lay given that he quit hormone treatment. It also sounds like he presented himself as confused on the matter rather than certain about where he stood, going by his own interview.
If they handled this situation with the least bit of privacy and dignity, it would be different. But since there are already plans for her and her spawn to share their feelings publicly and exploit the situation for yet more attention and money, they get absolutely no break from me. This is just another money-maker for her, and I think she has made it abundantly clear that she will sell everything and everyone for more money and fame.
@ The Other Pinky- I completely get it, and if it was anyone other than Kris Jenner, I would be giving her the benefit of the doubt.
Kitten, you are leaving out the other component of the story which is where Bruce married several women along the entire history of coming to terms and not coming to terms. Do I think she was negatively influential regarding Bruce’s acceptance of himself? Absolutely. Do I think he played a role? Absolutely. Dependent/codependent.
I agree that Bruce’s transition has to be difficult to process (for Kris and for Bruce’s kids) but that doesn’t excuse the fact that she’s lying to try to make herself look good / deflect criticism.
As Minx said, she didn’t have to lie but she did, and it’s now come back to bite her.
This might be difficult for t kids, but Kris knew he had tried this before. Linda had told Brody and Brandon about that years ago according to her essay on Huffpost.
I think if she’d been honest and said “I said ‘no comment’ because this is the man I’ve been married to for 25 years, and we need time to work thru this as a family” or something along those lines, everyone would have been fine with it. But she didn’t. She lied. And therein lies the problem.
perfect way to characterize the situation…………
Yes!!! And going from “no comment” to calling him her “hero” in less than 24 hours feels incredibly inauthentic.
She could’ve said “no comment, I’m still processing” – and people would’ve been fine. It’s that she now claims she’s a huge supporter. No Kris, no you are not.
I think people hate PMK so much that they don’t see her as a human being with feelings(does she have any? Ha!). I’m sorry but if this was my hubby I would need A LOT of time to process this life altering news and NO I would not be going to his viewing party. I just wouldn’t lie about it, I would admit that it’s hard for me and I would wish him good luck in the future. It’s the lying and scheming to make herself look good that is the problem for me and not the “no comment” part.
Bruce’s reality show, the “intro” family interviews…this is all related to Bruce’s pimping. Why Kris is getting all the heat, I’ve no idea. She really to me doesn’t seem to be trying to steal the spotlight either, as she keeps getting accused.
Not everything is being blamed on Kris. Just her lies. ABC reached out for a comment multiple times and she didn’t responded. She’s embarrassed by that and is now trying to blame it on ABC. And, as an ABC employee said, why would we only reach out to 2 of his ex-wives and forget the most famous one (currently)? Doesn’t make sense.
But the point is that she should be allowed to respond with “no comment”. She was being vilified for responding that way. Then she apparently tried to lie when confronted, which she should not have done—she stood have stood by her “no comment”. However, she was being judged pretty severely for not commenting. I think “no comment” was not an unreasonable response.
Give Kris Jenner a break? Haha! Good one
If he had already started all this transitional stuff, why did he marry Kris in the first place? Why didn’t he pursue becoming a woman at that point? I’m not trying to be argumentative, I’m just trying to understand this. Maybe I’m missing information. I’m going to have to agree that if I were Kris, my pride would be hurt. Not saying I love her or even like her, but I can at least understand why she is struggling with jumping on his bandwagon.
The sky is blue, the grass is green, and Kris Jenner is a money-grubbing, attention-hungry pimp liar who pimps and lies. All is right with the world. *sips tea* *strokes beard contentedly*
Shambles – What a concise and accurate description of Kris Jenner! I imagine you are stroking your beard and drinking your tea while looking out over rolling green fields on a warm sunny day!
@Snarky, how lovely that would be. Sadly, there’s rain falling on the Georgia pines today (the sky is still blue, I just can’t see it right now). But the soothing aroma of my tea and the lusciousness of my beard will get me through until the sun comes out again.
I love rain. So relaxing and pretty on the Florida palm trees. Don’t miss snow piled on trees back in Massachusetts winters
@ Maeliz, the imagine of rain on palm trees makes me want to go back to sleep, in a good way. That does sound really relaxing.
@Shambles – I can imagine sitting there with you sipping tea!!!! It’s so peaceful….and then the stupid phone at work rang and ruined the whole thing for me. LOL
For someone who is so adept at maneuvering her family to the top, she does have these blind spots where she can really make something tiny into something massive. Perez’s tweet was just a transcription of what Diane reported, so why even bother responding?
Obviously, she’s embarrassed that Bruce outed her for marrying him with breasts and enjoying crossdressing.
I agree with your assessment that Kris is embarrassed because Bruce admitted she knew when they met and she married him anyway.
I second your agreement. motion carried!
Everything that needs to be said about Lucifer’s homegirl has been said, so I’ll sum it up the only way I know how… in the universal language of hip hop, ‘That girl is poison.’
So that’s why the Kardashian Pimpettes all have big butts and smiles!
I think we all knew she was lying about it, and with her it’s likely for some other motive. If PMK didn’t want to make a statement, that’s fine, but don’t go after ABC news like they didn’t bother trying to get one from you. Just own it and move on. Makes things look that much worse.
I think both Bruce and Kris are holding back certain ‘reveals’ for their own shows dealing with this topic. And, as others have said, she may have wanted to gage public reaction.
+1 with you on that one. she cares too much about their (her) public image to support him before she knows how the masses will react and how much backlash there will be.
Early on, I watched a few episodes of the show and was amazed at how many times she referenced ‘brand’. She is geared toward publicity and money.
Bruce learned from the master.
I love this.
And yes, I think Kris didn’t anticipate the positive reaction; she’s trying to tap dance around all of her usual lies.
She will have a comment as soon as she figures out a way to profit off of it.
EXACTLY!
She’ll be compensated for the E! special that’s coming out next month so her lips are sealed until it airs. She’s a money grubbing pimp AND attention w°ore herself. I’m guessing that she turned down ABC because they didn’t offer her money.
Excellent point Sea Dragon
I have no love for any of these people and their incessant drive for media attention, but I believe that the story is probably much more nuanced than it has been covered. We are so desperate for heroes and villains, we forget that situations are hardly ever black and white and that there are many shades of gray, maybe more than 50.
no, there are only 50.
(in all seriousness, I agree with your post.)
“We are so desperate for heroes and villains, we forget that situations are hardly ever black and white and that there are many shades of gray”
I totally agree. That statement is even true for someone like PMK.
There is no nuance when it comes to the almighty dollar. Sorry, but I don’t see a single thing that would make me think that anything in their lives is nuanced. They sell everything, and have been very upfront about it. There’s is not enough depth in how they shill or in the individuals themselves for there to be any nuance. I think the fact that they have no filter whatsoever is what brought them so much attention.
What I meant was in regard to actions and reactions, for all parties. I was very clear about ALL OF THEM incessantly looking for attention and that includes the Kardashians and Jenners. There is likely nuance in the reasons for each, including enriching themselves with money or underlying psychological issues, all around.
Right Kiddo. That includes Bruce Jenner too. He is riding his own wave, his own version of a “pee video” if you will, for what it’s worth. Don’t think he isn’t.
@ Kiddo. Sorry, but agree to disagree. I just see no evidence of any real emotion or thinking among those people. They seem to me to be completely empty, moving forward on only one desire.
I think she’s not thinking straight and she’s embarrassed and wishes that people would stop asking her about her private life. Ironic, right? But it’s hard not to sympathize with a human being in pain.
I agree, Nicole. She shouldn’t have lied, but I imagine her head is reeling at all of this publicity about a very private matter. She doesn’t owe me an explanation of her feelings just because her husband decided to be very public about his. I don’t care for Kris at all, but I’m not going to judge someone who is losing their husband in a very public way.
Two months ago she filmed Bruce telling the kids for the Kardashian show. This was filmed before he did his interview.. Not so private if you are using it for a story line on your show. She will be releasing leaks of that before it comes out and hyping that for all its glory for high ratings.
Oh. Never mind.
PMK a liar? Trying to work the angles in her favor? It’s just business as usual for her isn’t it.
She shouldn’t have lied about the no comment part but this is not a big deal to me.
Maybe she has her own reservations or feelings of betrayal regarding Bruce’ s transition, she’s entitled to that, even if we don’t agree—no one ever knows what happens inside a marriage, and for all the hoopla about how manipulative she is, keep in mind that Bruce stayed with her for 20 yrs.
What does that say about him?
And he said they would still be together if she was ok with the transition.
Well, she’s a heterosexual woman, why would she want to be married to another woman?
You really can’t blame her for this.
It’s not to me either. Don’t get me wrong. I seriously do not like this woman…well, I don’t like anyone in the family including Bruce. But knowing when she met him, finding out a few months ago and letting it be filmed is not the same thing as it now being broadcast to the world and becoming a huge public news story. So what if she is reluctant to lay it all out for everyone. She shouldn’t have lied and lashed out like she did but who cares? Everyone is giving sympathy to her idiot spawn for needing an adjustment period but she’s the one he was married to for 25 years.
Even bottom feeders wants to be disassociated with her. Next life she’s coming back as a sh#t fly.
the woman and the children she cultivated are vile human beings.
still…they are human…
and i can’t imagine the turmoil, pain, confusion, they are all probably feeling with this.
i feel for bruce the most and his children – the 4 grown from 2 previous marriages, and the younger girls…can’t imagine the turmoil for themselves and their concern for bruce.
i hope the decision to go public in such a huge way with an intimate, personal life changing event provides bruce and his family with what bruce says his reason is for doing it this way…
so that he can be an inspiration to other transgenders.
and i hope serving in that role provides him the public support he was seeeking in doing so.
Lucifer’s homegirl is being shady???!!?? Well I never….
The only way Kris will come out looking good on this one, is to just let Bruce BE. She needs to realize that the world is behind Bruce and trying to parse small details (what she knew and when she knew it, blah blah, etc,) will only reflect badly on her. Trying desperately to preserve the public idea that their marriage was all bliss and she was just a fantastic wife and she and her husband had a ‘great love’, etc., will all get clouded if she tries to control every thing out of everyone’s mouth.
Bruce himself was more than generous publically about the fact that “Kris is a good person”, etc. Kris, just let this play out. It will all be fine. Calm down.
Well yes of course she lied. That is how this family became famous to begin with. It was all based on lies. I think it is very obvious that the public are sick of each of the KarTrashian girls and the two youngest Jenner girls but it is the media who keep it coming. The more they over expose themselves the less people care. And the more evident each and every lie becomes. Kris needs to shut up and along with Bruce become a real parent to Kylie who needs some mothering and NOT the type Klhoe gives her which is anything goes.
Diane entered a viper’s den when she signed up for that interview. That family is so interconnected, I don’t think there is any way you would come away unscathed.
That explanation doesn’t make any sense, fact checking? LOL Ultimately, who cares. She should just stop. We all know she didn’t want to make a comment, and move on.
I thought Bruce said nice things about Kris in the interview. Most people have a low opinion of Kris, and he said a lot of nice things about her. This is the woman who wrote that book and went into ad nauseum detail about her affair with that young guy on her first husband and all the banging they did and was really gross with no worries about how her dead husband’s children would feel about all of that, who remember the painful divorce, nor how her husband at the time, Bruce, would feel.
She now is a private person who wants to sue? LOL Too funny. This is the woman who has a son who is clearly suffering and in a bad state of mind, and they have used him all season as a story line talking about him and his issues, even mocking him, when he isn’t even on the show. How can you use your own son’s private issues and struggles for a story line and ratings when he won’t even participate on the show? He was furious.
Now, she’s all private and upset about Bruce mentioning their marriage. LOL
@ jayna – this. I can’t believe some of the comments on here. She’s not even trying to play a game and make herself look good by making people feel sorry for her but they still are!! Can’t believe people fall for this krap, this is why they are still around. The way they treat rob is proof that the only person each of them cares about is themselves.
since when isnt kris available for a comment?
im sure she has comments ready for questions on syria, zayn leaving 1D and the new diet pepsi recipe
ha ha !
I think she is pissed because she came off looking bad in the interview. Having been in the tabloids lately, people were aware of Bruce’s situation. It was surprising, though, when he said that he would still be married to Kris f she would have allowed it. It makes her seem uncaring, when in reality, most people can completely understand that she could not remain his wife.
I also think she was genuinely surprised that the reaction to Bruce’s reveal was understanding. She was expecting more sympathy for her own situation because, of course, it is always about her.
Plus, I think she wanted Bruce to announce on HER show because it would have been a ratings bananza. I bet she is pissed on several levels.
The problem is normally when a Kardashian/Jenner lies about something, the media lets it slide. I love the fact Diane Sawyer is not letting Kris get away with lying. It’s about time these Kardashian/Jenners get put in their place.
She lies about everything, EVERYTHING.
Yeah, I don’t give Kris Jenner any slack. She is truly Lucifer’s Homegirl. Horrible woman.
I don’t think Bruce should do his own reality show at this time. While I think it’s great he’s finding his happiness, a show like that has the potential to really be awful – particularly on the same station as the Kardashian trash show.
No surprise there. She lies about everything, doesn’t she?
Don’t you think Linda Thompson approached Kris with this when Kris and Bruce started dating? No way does the ex wife not say something when she knows her children will be spending time with Kris and Bruce and she would want to know what her children are seeing/experiencing in his home. It wasn’t a secret to Linda, so there is no reason she wouldn’t speak of it to Kris.
It is very telling how Bruce made time for his first two children from his first marriage during his second marriage…then nothing for those 4 children during their very important years with Kris. That’s shameful of Bruce ..and Kris. To use an ironic phrase…and I am happy for Bruce finally being able to be free…he seemed to wear the pants in his first two marriages but with Kris? That woman is a narcissist, wore the pants and probably blackmailed Bruce all the way. She knew. Remember Bruce couldn’t spend money without consulting Kris…although I read Bruce made the money in the beginning, not Kris.
So here’s to women and men being treated as equal partners in a relationship, children receiving the love, emotional and financial support they deserve. Finally, to human beings receiving unconditional love to be who they are in families and society.
I feel sorry for Kris and this must be hard on her. The way I see it, she is pissed everyone is sympathetic to Bruce and no one seems to care about her feelings. She didn’t issue a statement to 20/20 no doubt because she wants to “reveal” her reaction to it on her reality show. However, it’ll be months before we see this because Bruce beat her to it by sharing his side first. When this backfired and made her look bad since Bruce’s two previous wives issued supportive statements, she backpedaled and pretended that ABC had not reached out to her. I doubt ABC would have omitted her in their factchecking. Now she is trying to get sympathy for her side of the story but no one is going to believe that nobody reached out to her. It’s hard to muster sympathy for someone who always lies and tries to profit off of things like this.
Remember how she was “hurt” because he “dated” her “best” friend immediately after the divorce? This friend is probably one of Bruce’s hen party women.
Kris is so transparent she wasn’t hurt, it was only a storyline. Kris also married Bruce at the near height of his popularity. He was the one with the fame and money, not her. My guess is she knew full well he had wanted to become a woman in the past but didn’t care. After they got married she controlled and isolated him.
ABC also released a statement from Kylie and Kendall during the show, something about “if he’s happy, we’re happy”. ABC reached out to them so of course they also reached out to Kris.
All of this “drama” will unfold on their reality show. They are going to really milk this. I don’t think the ratings are good this season so they need as much pr as possible. Also, Kim and Kanye are finally allowing North to be seen on the show. In next week’s episode you will see North in quite a bit of the show with Kanye. I guess the producers told Kim people want to see North and it will help with ratings?
I know we love to hate PMK on this site, but just this once I’m giving her a break, but only until she admits that knowing Bruce was about to come out in a VERY public way through her for a loop. I don’t know why she can’t let go for just one short statement to say that. Has her image control work taken such a hold that she no longer knows how to react to things authentically? I think so. Perhaps she knew all through their marriage that Bruce was struggling, and perhaps she knew for months or even years that he WAS going to go through with it, but I don’t think she realized he was serious about going public. That’s what made her shut down. Maybe she felt it would be humiliating and the public would make judgments about her staying and having children with a sexually confused man. Hate her or not, any wife’s mind would be reeling. As a married woman, I get her confusion, and I’m not going to judge her for it.
I think Kris is getting a bad rap for not being 100% on board. His other wives left in part because he wanted to transition, and I’m sure if you’d asked them about him in the aftermath of those divorces they wouldn’t have been so supportive and eloquent. In fact I think I remember them throwing quite a bit of shade at him back then.
She may have met him when he was beginning to transition, but then he changed his mind. For 20 odd years! I don’t think it’s odd that she’s still a bit blindsided, especially considering even Bruce admitted she never had the whole story.
She really is so manipulative. C’mon it’s ABC Frickin News, they will ask everyone involved for comment – it’s part of the DNA of a show like that, they WANT & NEED all reactions to flesh it out (especially a looong 2-hr special like that). It’s pretty obvious the Kardashian clan are the only ones still deeply embarrassed by all this and didn’t want to be involved. I can’t believe not one of them would agree to an interview on camera, and all 4 of his other kids (who he temporarily abandoned throughout their childhood no less!) did.