Two big things happened last week around Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s estrangement and their ongoing divorce. One, Kanye said, on stage, that Kim needs to “run back” to him. Two, Kim filed to bifurcate their marriage and declare herself and Ye legally single before the divorce agreement is worked out. Kim apparently was unsurprised at Kanye’s public appeals, and sources told People that Kim has unequivocally moved on. “She knows it’s difficult for Kanye to deal with… She isn’t surprised that he pleads in public for her to run back to him. She is just trying to be respectful about it.” Then yesterday, the big headline was that Kim told the court that reconciliation won’t happen, not even with counseling:
Kim Kardashian recently stated in new court documents that no counseling or reconciliation efforts will be able to repair her marriage to Kanye West.
“Irreconcilable differences have existed and continue to exist between [West] and me, which have caused our marriage to irretrievably break down,” Kardashian, 41, stated in the filing. “No counseling or reconciliation effort will be of any value at this time. [West] and I both deserve the opportunity to build new lives. Therefore, I am asking that my request to bifurcate and terminate our marital status be granted.”
Kardashian also claims that the marriage for both her and West, 44, is “no longer viable.”
“[Kardashian] has no desire to reconcile with [West] and wants their marriage terminated,” the documents state. “Irreconcilable differences have led to the irremediable breakdown of the marriage, and there is no possibility of saving the marriage through counseling or other means. The continued maintenance of technical marital status between [West] and [Kardashian] serves no useful purpose, and there is no reason to maintain the legal relationship.”
It felt like people were judging Kim for this, but I get it. She’s not going to be manipulated (publicly) into running back to Kanye. She doesn’t want to do counseling with Kanye, because that would be a complete mess (and he probably doesn’t want it either). Women are allowed to be f–king done, you know? Meanwhile, Ye is still holding out hope:
Kanye West is still hoping he and estranged wife Kim Kardashian can work things out — even as she takes steps to make their split legally official. A source close to the rapper tells PEOPLE that family and marriage are “important” to West, and that he’s a “family man at heart [whose] love and commitment” to his ex and kids “will never change.”
“He’s not giving up without a fight. Kim is the mother of his children and he’s not going to just let that go,” the source says. “No matter if they’re husband and wife, they’ll always support each other. Her recent filing or any filing for that matter doesn’t mean he’s going to stop fighting to win her back.”
Last week, the SKIMS founder — who has been dating comedian Pete Davidson since October — filed court documents requesting she be declared legally single. Kardashian asked the court to separate issues of child custody and property from her marital status, and also requested that her maiden name be restored. In the documents, which were obtained by PEOPLE, the Keeping Up with the Kardashians alum said their marriage “has irremediably broken down,” and that “there is no possibility of saving the marriage through counseling or other means.”
Even so, the source says that West remains steadfast in his dedication to winning back his ex.
“Despite the recent filing by Kim, Kanye hasn’t lost hope to be with Kim again,” the insider says. “As he goes out more and he’s holding events and concerts, he’s always inviting Kim and will continue to do so. His sole priority is making sure she’s taken care of and treated like a queen, whether they’re married or not. That will always be a priority and that will never change.”
“That will always be a priority and that will never change” – yeah, it will change. At some point, it will change and that point will be when Kanye ends up in a serious relationship with someone other than Kim. Which might be a while, who knows. As I noted in previous coverage, it’s not like Kanye is even trying to “woo” Kim back, nor is he promising to change or promising to take his mental health seriously. He’s just publicly telling her to come back and refusing to participate in the divorce.
Photos courtesy of Backgrid.
She got what she wanted out of the whole farcical union. Now he is no longer needed, why be trapped with the guy?
While this is true, let’s not pretend it wasn’t mutually beneficial.
I want to know more about birfurcation and I’m looking it up. I know it’s common for separated couples to have issues with dating when they’re legally married in terms of self-guilt, misplaced jealousy, etc. This seems like a simple solution to that but I’ve never heard about it.
Bifurcation is not available in all states, but where state law allows it enables a couple to separate issues of property and custody of any minor children from their legal divorce. It will not allow an abusive narcissist to hold the divorce hostage to the eventual settlement of any financial or custody arrangement.
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Thanks for the info. I was wondering about that as well
I had this, my marriage was dissolved 2 years before custody and property was finally done.
I’m in California
Bro – you went out and humiliated her last year (which honestly I don’t even think she still thought was possible until it was happening).
He went out in public and said they thought about terminating a child that’s alive to read about her father saying it. You can def contemplate but that child shouldn’t hear about it, especially while you’re fake running for president.
Kim is a whole mess but even whole messes get to say “when” and stop.
THIS. People can call her a gold digger all they want, but Kanye draggggged her so publicly, that i don’t understand how anyone can recover from it.
She is under no obligation to stay married to this trump loving, election intimidator.
Plus he publicly admitted to cheating on her.
Plus he pretended to run for President, and evidently his PR rep tried to convince a Georgia election worker to confess to illegal activity she hadn’t committed. Kim is smart to say “no thanks” and walk away from Kanye permanently.
She should do what she can for her mental, physical wellbeing but lets face it she’s getting the publicity she needs from this Pete Davidson thing. She doesn’t need. She’s a user and so is Kanye. She probably would not have gotten that Vogue cover if not for her attachment to Kanye.
Things have been bad with them for years. Whatever else I think about her, I think she tried to hang in there for quite awhile. At some point, you have to recognize when things aren’t going to work out. Kanye was all for this divorce awhile ago, and I suspect that if she reconciled with him, I think they’d just be back in the same place they are now in five years.
I don’t know if it’s the way they define co parenting or if it’s their attention seeking way but it seems the Kardashians women always send mixed messages to their partners when they’re separated. If you always attending his events and are always hanging out together can you really blame for hoping you might change your mind ? In this case I’m not sure Kanye really want to have her back it just seems like he’s desparate for attention.
In other words, she and PMK got as much blood out of this particular stone as they could and they FINALLY reached a level where indulging his theatrics (say like, appearing at one of his shows in a designer wedding dress with one of your kids in tow as part of the stage show. The stage show where he was hanging out with homophobic and rapist friends dababy and Marilyn Manson) stopped paying dividends for them.
She doesn’t have to tie herself to someone who doesn’t want help for his various issues, but let’s stop pretending this isn’t mostly motivated by what is beneficial to her image. They’ve got a new story to pivot to “ plucky single mom chasing her dream of becoming a lawyer against stuff odds while she looks for love!” and they feel like they’ll reap better PR from that.
Sometimes when you’re done, you’re done and it sounds like she is. Kaiser is right. Women ARE allowed to be f***ing done.
I’m certainly not a fan, but I absolutely support her in this.
+1. She needs to make sure he gets a copy of the paperwork (probably for the second time) and highlight the part where it says she’s now Single. Kanye is way too much. His behavior on this and more has probably been quite confusing for the older 2 children. Then again his behavior will continue in be questionable but so will Kim and her side. A dumpster fire.
This, absolutely. Any man who will only do “whatever it takes” when you’re out the door is nobody to come back to. If he GAF, he had a long, long, long time to make changes and listen to what she needed to continue the marriage. Too little, too late.
This all at a time they need distraction from Travis and Kylie
“Family and marriage are important to him…” yet he didn’t want to live in the same house or even state as his family.
Honestly he has always been this way, Why now? The Kardashian whitification continues.
So screaming on a stage for her to ‘run back’ to him is how he’s planning on winning her back? Wow, and they say romanticism is dead *eyeroll*.
Of course Kanye said on stage that Kim needed to run back to him, he was having another manic episode which Kim and Kris were all too happy to exploit for a storyline for their reality tv show and headlines(the sources that keep running to the press to leak the “Kim is over Kayne stories” are Kim and Kris). Have you noticed that these “Kayne wants to reconcile with Kim” stories don’t happen when Kayne is with a new muse and isn’t having a manic episode? When Kim and Kris leaked that Kayne had stopped following them on social media, did we hear any stories about how Kayne wants to get back with Kim?
If Kim was trying to be respectful, she and her mother wouldn’t keep leaking these “Kayne wants to get back with Kim” stories to distract from whatever lawsuit is pending. Travis is still facing lawsuits from Astroworld, Kris and Khloe keep leaking the details of Tristan and Nichol’s lawsuits after Tristan had a gag order placed on Nichols, and Kayne’s publicist was exposed for harassing Ruby Freeman after Trump falsely accused her of election fraud on social media and at his rallies.
Kim and Kris claim that Kim has no desire to reconcile or go to counseling with Kayne, yet when Kayne has another big project to promote or they can’t get access into the fashion world, they will be the very first ones seeking out Kayne. The press needs to do better and stop treating Kim like she is a victim because she married a cheater who she knew had mental problems when she inserted herself into Amber Roses and Kayne’s relationship. The press hasn’t learned anything. Normalizing reality tv personas who claim to be billionaires is how we ended up with 4 years of Trump, which resulted in a pandemic that is still raging out of control, an insurrection where people lost their lives, and the dismantling of voting, transgender, women’s, and protestors rights. The Kardashians have a lot in common with Trump, right down to leaking stories about their exes and women who they perceive as threats.
People are judging Kim because she is a hypocrite. She and her mother run to the press to leak these stories about how she doesn’t want to be with Kayne, meanwhile she keeps sending him mixed messages. Like continuing to use his last name while proclaiming that a wide variety of men are seeking her, showing up to his concert in a wedding dress, being papped in NY with him, and trying to sabotage his relationships with Irina and the IG model by leaking details to the press.
Kim started dating Pete in October? Maybe Pete took that exam for Kim.
I agree 1000% journalists and the media need to stop participating and/or allowing the Ks to manipulate them. It is exactly how we slowly ended up with Trump in office AND a culture of surgery and “IG baddies” that has also hurt many young people and encouraged rampant materialism.