Kim Kardashian split from Kanye West after ‘momager’ Kris Jenner told her: ‘It’s over’
THEY have been living increasingly separate lives inside their £45million Californian mansion. But Kim Kardashian finally decided to split from Kanye West after momager Kris Jenner told her: The marriage is over. The 40-year-old reality star has now hired a lawyer and is expected to file for divorce “imminently”, sparking fears of a war over […]
THEY have been living increasingly separate lives inside their £45million Californian mansion.
But Kim Kardashian finally decided to split from Kanye West after momager Kris Jenner told her: The marriage is over.
The 40-year-old reality star has now hired a lawyer and is expected to file for divorce “imminently”, sparking fears of a war over the couple’s £1.6billion fortune.
Insiders reveal the A-listers, who have daughter North, seven, and sons Saint, five, Chicago, two and Psalm, one, have been secretly apart for almost six months.
But Kim only decided to officially make a move to end the marriage after her mother urged her to, “put herself first”.
“Kim and Kanye have been living separate lives since at least May,” says one insider.
“Kim has been meeting with her divorce lawyer in secret for months. And over the holidays, Kris told Kim the situation could not drag on any longer, so Kim has officially moved to end things.
“Kris thinks Kanye is out of control and, ‘bad for the family brand’. She can’t bear seeing how unhappy Kim is.”
Another source adds: “Kim didn’t make this decision alone.
“Kris has been tugging on her daughter’s heartstrings to persuade her to do the right thing, which is to kick Kanye to the curb. He had outlived his usefulness and it’s time he was cut loose.”
In May, The Sun reported that the couple, who married in Italy in 2014, were living at separate ends of their mansion, with a source revealing they were, “at each other’s throats”, and rowing over “everything”.
The insider added: “Over the past six months, aside from marriage counselling sessions, they have barely spent any time as a married couple and have been growing apart.
“Kim is serious about training as a lawyer and working on criminal justice reform, and her work with incarcerated prisoners has put things in perspective.
“She no longer wants to be listening to his rants about fashion or agonising over what outfit to wear with him.”
In July, Kanye, 43, declared he was entering the US presidential race, and tearfully claimed at his first rally that Kim “wanted to abort” their oldest daughter North when she found out she was pregnant.
The rapper, who has spoken publicly about his battle with bipolar disorder, added: “She had the pills in her hand . . . and she said I’m pregnant. She was crying.”
Kanye revealed he knew God was telling him to have a baby because his, “laptop screen went black and white”.
He added: “I almost killed my daughter. Even if my wife were to divorce me after this speech, she brought North into this world.”
He went on to allege on Twitter that mother-in-law Kris had, “sent doctors to lock me up” and called her “Kris Jong-Un” in reference to North Korean dictator Kim.
He also shared un-answered texts to Kris asking if she was, “ready to go to war”.
And he accused Kim of meeting with rapper Meek Mill behind his back and said he had been “trying to divorce” her.
Kim responded with a statement saying: “Those that understand mental illness or even compulsive behaviour know that the family is powerless unless the member is a minor.
“People who are unaware or removed from this experience can be judgmental and not understand that the individual themselves has to engage in the process of getting help, no matter how hard family and friends try.
“He [Kanye] is a brilliant but complicated person who, on top of the pressures of being an artist and a black man who experienced the painful loss of his mother, has to deal with the pressure and isolation that is heightened by his bipolar disorder.
“Living with bipolar disorder does not diminish or invalidate his dreams and his creative ideas.”
A source says: “Kim desperately wanted to help Kanye, but it was impossible for the marriage to recover after he insulted her mum and brought up the abortion.
“She hates that North will read that one day.”
Kanye later said sorry on Twitter, adding: “I would like to apologise to my wife Kim for going public with something that was a private matter.
“I did not cover her like she has covered me. To Kim I want to say, I know I hurt you.
“Please forgive me. Thank you for always being there for me.”
At the time, sources told The Sun: “After everything that has happened this week, Kim knows she can’t save her marriage, and accepts it was probably over a long time ago.
“But she won’t split with him at his lowest point. She owes it to their kids to stick by his side until he gets help.”
In November, Kanye attended Kim’s widely criticised 40th birthday trip to a private island in Tahiti where her family sparked outrage by partying while much of the world struggled with coronavirus restrictions.
But the rapper reportedly only attended for one day, “arriving late and leaving early”.
The insider adds: “The family’s recent trips have been about making memories as a family for the kids — they weren’t marriage-saving holidays.”
The couple did not see each other at Christmas, with Kanye hiding out at their £10million Wyoming ranch and Kim spending the day in LA with their children.
The divorce will be Kim’s third. She split from first husband Damon Thomas in 2003 and filed for divorce from basketball player Kris Humphries after just 72 days of marriage in 2011.
She began dating Kanye in 2012 before their lavish wedding in 2014.
Now sources close to the family fear Kanye, who is worth £1billion, will go to war over the couple’s £1.6billion fortune and property empire.
Kim has hired top LA lawyer Laura Wasser, who she previously used for her divorce from her second husband.
Laura has also represented actress Angelina Jolie, model Heidi Klum, actor Ryan Reynolds, singer Stevie Wonder and rapper Dr Dre.
Before their wedding, Kim and Kanye signed a pre-nup, which reportedly promised Kim would get one million dollars for every year the couple were married, up to ten years, and all gifts and jewellery.
Reports at the time claimed Kim would also get to keep “all earnings from her family’s reality show Keeping Up With The Kardashians and fashion and promotional deals”.
Friends say: “Kim feels nothing but relief after the split. What the public see is only half of what happens behind the scenes. But she is worried he could say something that would upset the children or damage the family brand.
“The last few years have been disruptive for the children and while she has tried her best to hold things together, it became impossible.”
But the LA insider adds: “The timing of the announcement is interesting. Kim hasn’t yet filed for divorce but it’s likely all the details of the split are finalised.
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“Kris will have made sure Kim’s two recent big paydays — the deal for the new TV show on Hulu [reportedly worth £75million] and the Coty deal [Kim sold 20 per cent of her KKW Beauty line to make-up company Coty for £150million this week] won’t have been included in any settlement.
“And you can bet the split and all the drama will be caught on camera and played out on the show.
“Nothing happens by accident in the Kardashian family.”
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