Last Thursday, Kanye “Ye” West was performing at a concert. Kim Kardashian and some of their kids were there, watching him perform. Kanye said on stage that Kimberly needs to “run back” to him. It was merely the latest public statement from Ye where he seems to think that he still has a shot at reconciling with Kim. I have no idea what he’s saying or doing behind-the-scenes, but publicly, his vibe is “badgering his estranged wife to come back.” It’s not even like he’s trying to woo her or be nice to her or work on his own sh-t or show her that he’s changed. He’s just publicly laying this guilt trip on her, that they need to reconcile and she needs to “come back.” So I’m happy that Kim did this in response:
Kim Kardashian wants to move forward with her life as a legally single woman, and just filed docs to do so in her divorce with Ye … TMZ has learned. Kim filed legal docs Friday … which if signed off by a judge, will make her officially single. She’s essentially asking the judge to separate issues of child custody and property from marital status. Kim is also asking that her maiden name be restored … aka, drop the “West.”
It’s interesting … Kim’s lawyer is disso queen Laura Wasser, who has frequently made similar moves with other celebrity clients, including Dr. Dre and Kelly Clarkson — separating marital status from other issues. It allows people to get on with their lives … settling other issues for a different day.
What’s especially interesting … just hours before Kim filed for a change in her marital status, Ye went on stage at the L.A. Memorial Coliseum, and as he sang “Runaway” he ad-libbed over vocals at the end of the song to say, “Run back to me … more specifically, Kimberly.”
TMZ broke the story, Kim’s already taken one big step in figuring out the property side of things — buying Kanye out of their Hidden Hills Estate for $23 million. But, there are still other property issues that are outstanding. We’re told there will not be any dispute over custody … they will get joint custody and are committed to co-parenting.
Yes, a lot of celebrity exes are getting dissolutions lately, especially when the divorces are messy and everyone knows it will take a while to complete all of the financial and custodial issues. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie did this too, dissolving their marriage legally and declaring themselves single before the divorce sh-t was worked out. Still, I like that Kim responded to Ye’s bulls–t this way. I know Kim isn’t anyone’s favorite, but I respect the way she got out of this marriage and I respect how she refuses to be publicly bullied or shamed by Ye into reconciling. She’s managed to keep the peace for the sake of the kids, but otherwise she’s keeps him at arm’s length. Plus, Ye seems very upset that she’s with Pete Davidson.
Photos courtesy of Instagram, Backgrid.
Ehhh, they both got what they wanted out of the marriage. Kim Kardashian got fashion bonafides, and Kanye got the mixed kids he’d always dreamed of. Ye needs to take that L and get on.
He’s a narcissist, thought, so he is incapable of taking an L. We have more of these attempts to publicly shame/bully her into coming back in our future I’m sure.
He’s being “nice” for now, but very soon he will sh*t on her as he did to Amber Rose.
I’m not a fan but she has definitely earned everything she got by marrying him. Jmo. I couldn’t do it
I hate people who only want you if someone else is interested. She knows if she reconciles with him he will dump her 5 minutes after they got back together.
Kanye needs about 20 years of deep therapy not a wife.
Only 20? He needs to be in a therapist’s chair every day for the rest of his life.
and to take his medication
Maybe he should focus his attention on cooperating with authorities about his participation in a treasonous coup to overthrow the last presidential election? His personal staff intimidated and threatened election workers in Georgia, pressing them to lie about nonexistent election fraud. He needs to spill who got him involved or go to jail.
that story was a bit scary. that poor election worker, being threatened how she was, told that “someone is coming for you”. and good for her for standing her ground and contacting the police, even though she was so scared.
I was really hoping that (bonkers) story would be covered on here. Much more interesting to me than 6 stories a day about the Royal Family.
Ruby Freeman and her daughter are s/heroes.
OMG Thank you for saying this! I am beyond burned out with the royals. I love Megan and Harry but the coverage is really excessive lately. I mean honestly, keep covering Megs and Harry just lay off covering the rest of them. I’d be happy with once a week even lol. I feel like its multiple stories a day when theres not much thats really changing or going on. I am a long time CB fan back from 2006 so I mean this feedback with love.
Kim is not an innocent in all this. She knew what she was getting into. She got what she wanted and now is done with him. She did the same thing with Kris Humphries only no kiddos involved.
This.
Apparently her PR game is working and we aren’t supposed to remember. She didn’t even offer Humphries the minimal respect of “dissolution” before getting pregnant.
I hate to defend any member of the kk klan.
But he’s a raging misogynist, MAGA stan and defended rapists, homophobes and domestic abusers. So while I can’t stand what the klan stands for the cheating is only a small part of what’s wrong with him. Also remember there’s been rumours of him cheating during their rs and I find it hard to believe he spent all that time in Paris or Wyoming or wherever apart from her without a side piece given the the speed he hooked up with two different women after they separated . He wants to control women and so I will always side with the women be it KK or amber rose.
i sense no lies, Pilar.
i mean pick your poison and none of us are real fans of the KKKLan (i think…) but in this case, yea, Kris H. deserves no respect and so he got none
Their marriage was over. Not here for the slut shaming, Kardashian or not.
meh, it isn’t slut shaming — it’s respect. She showed none for herself or her vow.
If a man justified his side piece with “my marriage was over” we would rake him over the coals.
I’m not here for hypocrisy.
Okay, let’s Google. They married and separated in 2011, and she filed for divorce in October that year. North was born June 2013, so she fell pregnant fall of 2012…nearly a year later. The divorce was finalized before North was born. But sure, she owed Humphries respect to not fall pregnant almost a year after she filed for divorce.
@Robyn: I didn’t google it, but if that timing is accurate, you’re right. She owed him nothing.
Humphries just wanted an annulment and he had grounds for it. I think she lied like a rug to him about her intentions and future plans for them as a married couple and did a 180 degree turn on him once the publicity wedding was over. She forgot to provide transportation for his parents at that dipstick broadcast wedding. She refused to let him invite his old friends to her wedding.
She didn’t want him to move his stuff into her house. She complained about him talking with his sister on the phone. She repeatedly humiliated him on camera and I don’t think he felt it was a joke.
He looked so shocked when again and again on that idiot show she dismissed his comments about things like raising kids in his home state. I think the producers forgot to give him the script ahead of time just to get his raw reactions.
Humphries took her to bible study with him, got his sister (with whom he is very close) in as a bridesmaid, and brought in his pastor from home to officiate. He actually thought this thing was real. Then she figures out her friend with benefits Kanye is available to marry and races off to file for divorce after a few weeks of marriage, not even discussing it with her husband. She and her mother even doctored video to make him seem abusive. Then she refused to return the wedding presents even though most were still at the store, pocketing the cash and buying rolexes for her family. That man was wronged.
At least he insisted that she come to his home state to have a discussion with his pastor after all that. She looked really annoyed during that trip. I wonder what leverage he managed to use to get her there.
This was a smart move. The public manipulation in front of the kids is a low blow and yeah I think Kanye does not do hints very well.
I agree above, I would also like to hear about his election overturning efforts. Best to keep the kids away from the treason stuff too sigh
I don’t give Kim props for anything she’s done here at all. She and Kanye went into this union knowing that one was using the other. They are both opportunist fame mongers and I wouldn’t mind never seeing either of them again.
All this. The kids are the only ones who deserve all the good wishes.
Yes to everything 👏🏼
yup, all I can say is she is working hard to stay in the news these days.
Yup. I also think she’s starting to realize that the she’s not the young, hot news anymore so I’m assuming she’ll try to get as much mileage out of this as possible.
It must be exhausting to have to placate your ex all the time for the sake of your children, but also out of fear that your actions might trigger a mental health event. She’s smart to fight back via lawyers. She has masterfully optimized this marriage, and despite how toxic I think her brand is, she’s iconic.
We have no way of knowing what she’s endured behind the scenes to make this marriage work as long as it has, but from a publicity/brand perspective, it’s indeed been masterful. Hats off to Kim and Kris. The devil works hard, but those two are truly impressive.
@molly, HAHAHA
“I wouldn’t mind never seeing either of them again.” Truer words were never spoken. We should only be so lucky.
ETA: This was in reply to @ girl_ninja, not sure why it jumped down here!
I think I remember a story of Kim talking on KUWTK and she said how Kanye always does ‘big’ gestures but never does anything small for her. Hell, he doesn’t even live the same state as Kim anymore. Everything is a huge grand gesture and she just wants something simple from him, like going to the gym with her, etc. Anyways-this is just another big gesture from Kanye that means nothing to Kim anymore. If he wants her back maybe he should have listened to her to begin with.
Lord, never thought I’d really defend a Kardashian but here I am.
My former partner was like this. Unmedicated bipolar, incidentally. It was so romantic at first, and then it just felt empty. Big splashy gestures for all to see, but I could not expect anything in the day to day.
Much respect for Kim for sticking to her guns on this. Also for passing the baby bar!
Eh, the small gestures don’t make headlines or storylines or controversy, besides children and credibility, that’s all I ever got the impression she wanted him for.
Interestingly that’s how travis described his relationship history. He would cheat and then make a grand gesture. Which is why it’s so weird that people think his courtship of kourtney is so romantic. Because it seems very similar grand gesture and a woman who completely changes her style for the man.
it’s not so much defending Kim as saying Kim is in a relatable position. i’m sure SOME CB’ers have dated a man — or woman — who was all about the grand gestures, and yet never about the small ones, the genuine ones, the little things you do for your spouse that matters.
as for me, i’m speaking about my parents, lol (always grand gestures spaced erratically and far apar, never the little things that really say ‘i love you’)
When did Kim distance herself from Kanye ? She was at his listening party for his album in a wedding dress , with Dababy and Marilyn Manson..
I see Kim finally passed the Baby Bar so she is on her way to being a lawyer. She is looking forward and Kanye is backwards for her. Ye needs to take his “L” and move it forward too
I’ll eat crow, I NEVER thought she’d get this far. I still doubt she’ll be an actual lawyer some day, but I’ve clearly been wrong before.
She passed on the 4th try. Normally you are only given 3 chances but because of the pandemic she (and others) were given a fourth. I mean, good for her, but if anyone had as much help as she did I’d be shocked if they didn’t eventually pass. I still side-eye the fact that she (and others) were able to take the baby bar at home. They were allowed bathroom breaks (of course) so what would stop someone from not cheating? No one is there watching you when you leave the computer.
How many tries did it take you to pass the baby bar in California, ME?
@ Wendy
What on earth does that have to do with anything? You can go on-line and see comments from people who are actually in Law School saying Kim had every advantage (that most people don’t). There was no reason to be shocked she passed the 4th try. I just find it hilarious that she claims to be in Law School when she’s actually not. Doesn’t she even know that much? She’s not earning a Law Degree but keeps suggesting she is. She’s simply studying to pass the actual Bar. With enough help and enough time, I’m sure she’ll pass that too.
Within the last couple of weeks I read an article discussing that the bar exam disadvantages POC because of lower passage rates than advantaged, non-POC. This article was arguing for doing away with the Bar in general but it also pointed out that if you are going to keep the Bar, the format should be modified to a take-home exam. It cited to passage rates going up during COVID-19 because people were allowed to take the exam home. The point was that a take-home exam more closely mirrors practicing law because you always have access to research and treatises in the actual practice of law.
@ItReallyIsYouNotMe
Hmmm so passage rates go up when you’re allowed to take an exam at home. Wonder why? Cheating is rampant, that’s why.
Wendy, are you suggesting that we aren’t allowed to comment on Kim unless we have accomplished as much as she has in terms of education?
I have a Ph.D., so I’ll just comment, while it’s great to celebrate accomplishments, I am not going to celebrate ostentatious self-promotion and privilege. I know VERY well the barriers to education for so many.
Wasn’t Kim in a wedding dress putting on a full f*cking display at one of Kanye’s shows just a month or so ago? This woman loves attention. That is all. I give her zero credit.
Yes she did and lie when people called her out.
I never knew you could do that, file a separate motion for marriage dissolvement separate from custody and property disputes.
Isn’t that exactly what Angelina did?
Why is the press always falling for Kris’ cons? These “Kayne wants Kim back, is badgering/bullying her to take him back, is jealous of Pete” stories are nothing more than PR created by Kris to distract. The two biggest things that Kris has been trying to distract from are the Astroworld lawsuits against the father of her youngest daughter’s children and Kayne’s publicist harassing Ruby Freeman. The press needs to do better. Stop trying to normalize Kim and make her out to be the victim, especially when she has a history of exploiting men with mental illnesses, accuses any man(Tyspn B and Kris Humphries) who rejects her and doesn’t find her attractive as being gay, and leak negative stories about her exes.
When has Kim ever kept Kayne at arms length? When “sources”(Kris) kept leaking that Kim was being pursued by a wide variety of men, wasn’t Kim still using Kanye’s last name? Whenever Kayne found a new muse(Irina and IG model), Kris and Kim kept leaking details to the press as if they were trying to sabotage his relationships. Every time Kayne has a mental episode or is promoting something that Kris thinks will be big, Kim and her sisters are the very first ones to exploit it for headlines and photo-ops. The press needs to stop with this nonsense about how Kim is keeping the peace with Kayne for the sake of the kids. Kim and her family are exploiting Kayne because he opens up doors for them that they can’t access on their own. If Kim was trying to keep the peace, then Kim and Kris wouldn’t keep acting as sources to spin these stories about Kayne and Kim.
It’s being reported that Kim is tweeting(no one has seen the actual test results) that she passed the baby bar on her fourth attempt. Since the Kardashians lie about everything, the press needs to request the actual results. In the tweet that she posted today Kim claimed that she failed the third exam because she had Covid and a fever, but didn’t she claim that she failed the second exam because she had Covid ? Wouldn’t she have taken the third exam this year (because the exams are only offered twice a year), so did she have Covid this year too? Or did Kim just get her lies mixed up because she tells so many? Did Kim just reveal that she has actually taken the exam 5 times, not 4?
Her timeline doesn’t even make sense. When did she take the fourth exam(exams are offered in June and October)? Wasn’t she tweeting about studying in October and setting up daily staged photo-ops with Kayne, Pete, and in New York?
Just glad she’s dropping the ‘West’.
That top picture is horrible, at least the angle is. I first through she had gotten a mastectomy and was showing off the scar (Which yay! should be normalized anyway),
This relationship needs to be put in the rear view as fast as possible, so I’m with Kim on that.
OMG this thirst is so real. These are all just story lines. The Ks exes ALWAYS beg for them back – think there’s money in it? Kris must be working overtime *eye roll* Wait for it – Tristan and Travis are up next. Scott’s already out there willingly playing the tortured ex. People seriously still fall for this?
I don’t know why some men always do this, especially when it’s too late, but it’s exhausting even to witness. I’m glad Kim did that.
Thank goodness. As someone going through a miserable, contentious divorce with a controlling “Christian” ex who thinks he owns me spiritually as his wife now and forever, i’ve been so triggered by the reports of him insisting she’s his wife and should come running back to him. I am endlessly nice to my ex and try to say things like, we can still be a family even if we aren’t married. I include him in things with the kids. Yet he is as vindictive as ever and going for the jugular in court despite his supposed belief that he’s my “husband.” I was surprised to not see much talk of Kanye doing this while she’s being clearly supportive – thanking him at awards, attending his concerts. But for him to say this crap at a concert in front of the kids is an alienating move toward his children (,away from her). It gives the perception that mean mommy won’t stay married to poor daddy and his sadness is her fault, and whatever sadness the kids may have is her fault. I would be livid if I were Kim and I’m glad she’s protecting herself. I can’t even imagine having her resources and the safety I would feel being able to afford whatever motions or legal fees necessary. Divorce is so ugly and expensive and miserable as it is and I’m glad she isn’t crushed by him and his resources. So many women get the short end in these situations because the husband has more financial flexibility. PSA to young women: never be a stay at home mom without an education and your own income, and never agree to prioritize paying for his advanced degrees during the marriage while you’re demonized for merely wanting a bachelor’s degree.
I’m sorry that you’re going through that, and that we live in a society that encourages boys and men to think like your ex in the first place. You do not belong to him or owe him anything.
Ugh men. He’s obviously an abusive ex. I hope she is able to make a clean break, it’s never guaranteed.
The come back to me sh*t reminds me of the game Scott Dissick played too. Acts like he wants Kourt but his behaviour tells a different story. It’s great for the K’s egos though.
When I’m feeling charitable, I think they’re just friendly exes who support each other. Kim models for him; he name-checks her. No animosity.
When I’m not feeling charitable, I think he’s love-bombing her and she’s right to just keep walking.