Kim Kardashian Had ‘Stockholm Syndrome’ With Kanye West
Kim Kardashian didn't hold back in explaining how hard her ex-husband's antics were affecting her life.
During the season 7 premiere of The KardashiansKim was candid about her relationship with Ye (formerly known as Kanye West), with whom she shares four children: North, 12; cent, 9; Chicago, 7; and Psalm, 6.
“I haven't had psoriasis since I got divorced, and it just started coming back,” the reality star revealed, saying she recently felt “pretty tested” by Ye. “I mean, I have psoriasis again … I felt more stressed, probably just because I had to super, super protect what I had to protect.”
Kardashian, who was married to Ye from 2014 to 2021, went on to say that the only thing that goes through her when her ex acts erratically is, “My poor child.”
“Everyone around him can handle it, but protect my babies,” she pleaded.
While looking back on her relationship with the rapper and her decision to divorce him, the SKIMS founder said she “always felt like I had a little bit of Stockholm syndrome” with Ye.
“I always felt really bad and always protected and always wanted to help [him],” she said, admitting that she would think to herself, “I should have stuck it out” or “I could have helped,” but “this was the first time I personally didn't feel that responsibility.”
About the state of their relationship now, Kim said: “It's so f***ing sad.”
During a preview teaser clip for the upcoming season that aired during the show's premiere, Kim is seen in an MRI scanner before later telling her family, “There was a little aneurysm.”
While explaining the doctor's reasoning behind the brain aneurysm, Kardashian told her family, “They were like, 'just stress.'”
A lot of the stress that Kim is dealing with seems to come from the ex, who she addressed during the premiere when she wrapped up the story that she has the “luxury of leaving and not going around [with him] always again.”
“That's not my reality. This person — we have 4 kids together. It's very confusing because it's going to be all this chatter on the Internet of like, 'I love the kids.' He never once called and asked [to see them],” she said of his online antics. “But then I wake up, and it's on Twitter that I love the kids. If it's not true and not rational, I just have to… I can't always be busy. It's a divorce – not a kidnapping.
New episodes of The Kardashians premieres every Thursday on Hulu.
