Khloé Kardashian is reflecting on a time her ex Tristan Thompson tried a grand romantic gesture — just for it to backfire spectacularly.
Talking on the Wednesday, February 11, episode of her podcast, “Khloe in Marvel Land,” Kardashian, 41, recalled Thompson, 34, organizing for singer Giveon to serenade her.
“There was one time I used to be serenaded, and it was I feel only a random day as a result of I wasn’t anticipating it,” Kardashian started.
Kardashian and Thompson dated on and off from 2016 and late 2021, with their romance tormented by Thompson’s infidelity scandals. The previous couple at the moment are coparents to True, 7, and Tatum, 3.
Possibly subsequent time he’ll assume earlier than he cheats? Khloé Kardashian has not held again in the case of her relationship along with her on-again, off-again boyfriend, Tristan Thompson. Two days earlier than the fact star gave start to daughter True in Cleveland on April 12, 2018, footage surfaced of the NBA star kissing and cozying as much as (…)
“This was years in the past. Tatum wasn’t born. Yeah, it was simply True,” Kardashian stated of the “mortifying” expertise.
“Giveon wasn’t who he was now. And he’s simply singing,” she continued. “I keep in mind I hated Tristan and I used to be like, ‘Why are you doing this?’ And Giveon is pouring his coronary heart out. And Tristan’s attempting to take a seat subsequent to me and I’m like, slapping him, and poor Giveon remains to be singing. It was mortifying.”
Kardashian stated she enlisted True’s assist in an effort to make the entire state of affairs barely much less awkward.
“I used to be like, ‘God, this man is such an amazing singer. I like this man.’ And I keep in mind going inside to get True as a result of I used to be like, ‘I simply want like a 3rd individual to get (away from) Tristan,’” Kardashian stated. “I used to be so irritated with Tristan.”
In April 2025, Kardashian spoke to Us Weekly completely about going by means of “lots of remedy” and “self reflection” after her previous public relationships. (She was additionally beforehand married to Lamar Odom.)
Khloe Kardashian.
(Picture by Rodin Eckenroth/WireImage)“Like, ‘Why do I preserve selecting these folks?’” she mirrored to Us on the time. “And now I really feel like I’m actually robust, and I pray I can determine sure pink flags or sure issues that I don’t need to obtain anymore. And I feel you’re going to must be actually particular to both disrupt my present life-style, my schedule and the way I prioritize my time, and simply to even make me really feel these butterflies. I feel I’m fairly guarded proper now, so it must be a particular, persistent individual.”
In a January episode of “Khloe in Marvel Land,” Khloé additionally defined how she and sisters Kim and Kourtney Kardashian and Kendall and Kylie Jenner resolve when to go public with their relationships.
“None of us are actually sitting and speaking about, ‘Oh, in three weeks we must always discuss (how) I’m relationship this individual.’ That doesn’t occur. I feel you simply know while you’re relationship somebody, when you’re simply relationship and you recognize this isn’t going anyplace, you’re type of simply casually relationship somebody,” Khloé shared. “However when you’re in an actual relationship, the place you might be head over heels (in love), then you definitely would possibly need to be extra public with that individual.”
Khloé added that she most popular to maintain her romances on the downlow so long as doable.
“I, personally, from my previous experiences, the longer you may preserve one thing non-public, I feel the higher the probabilities are for that relationship,” she stated. “But in addition, you may be relationship somebody and be like, ‘I’m simply sleeping with this individual. I’m not making this public in any respect.’ You’ll be able to sleep with them for 2 years and also you by no means need to make it public. You simply must know the vitality of that relationship.”