Though Kim Kardashian has stayed silent on her split from Kanye West for most of the three years they’ve been divorced, she isn’t holding back anymore. On this week’s season 7 premiere of The Kardashians, Kim admitted she felt like she had Stockholm Syndrome during her marriage to Kanye, and that walking away from their marriage wasn’t as easy a decision as her critics may have believed.
Kim admitted she tried to “hide” Kanye’s behavior for a long time.
Kim didn’t mention the exact incident that she was speaking about in the episode, but she did say that this was the first time that her kids had found out about a situation involving their dad — something that, until that point, she’d tried to protect them from.
“I always felt like I had a little bit of Stockholm syndrome, to where I always felt really bad and always protected [him] and always wanted to help [him],” she said.
She has finally been able to distance herself from feeling “responsible” for her ex-husband’s actions.
She said this was also the first time that she “didn’t feel that responsibility personally” for Kanye’s actions, which have created so much stress in her body that she experienced psoriasis flare ups.
“I haven’t had psoriasis since I got divorced, and it just started coming back,” she said. “I mean, I have psoriasis again. I felt more stressed, probably just because I had to super, super protect what I had to protect.”
Kanye’s behavior is starting to affect her kids.
During the episode, Kim said that now that her children are aware of Kanye’s behavior, her main goal is to make sure they’re as “protected” as possible.
“My poor kids. Everyone around can handle it, but like, protect my babies,” she said. “They’re gonna know things. They’re gonna grow up, they’re gonna see. So my job as a mom is to just make sure that — at a time when that behaviour is happening — is just to make sure that they’re protected.”
She admitted that coparenting with Kanye hasn’t turned out like she hoped.
At first, she said that Kanye’s plan was to buy a house next door, take the kids to school every day, and come over for family dinners, but not only did that not pan out, they also haven’t heard from him in a while.
“We haven’t left. We’re in the same spot, we have the same address so he knows where his kids are at,” Kim said during a confessional interview on the show.
