Khloé Kardashian Shares Why She Wanted Tristan Thompson Present for True's Birth Despite Learning of Cheating Scandal 2 Days Before

Mar. 15, 2025

Khloé Kardashian (L); Tristan Thompson (R).Photo:Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty; George Pimentel/Getty

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Khloé Kardashianis explaining why she let her ex-boyfriend into the delivery room when she welcomed her daughter.

On a Wednesday, Jan. 29 episode of her podcastKhloé in Wonder Land, the Good American co-founder, 40, chatted with guest Mel Robbins and spoke about her decision to let ex-boyfriendTristan Thompson, 33, stay in the delivery room with her when she welcomed their daughter True after learning 48 hours earlier that he cheated on her.

Robbins asked Kardashian how she dealt with the fallout ofThompson’s cheating scandal, which prompted the mom of two to say that she drew from feelings from her first marriage to guide her.

“Well the crazy thing is I would draw back to the feelings I had with Lamar [Odom] — Lamar was my first husband —where I would say, ‘Okay.’ I knew how to deal with this media scandal," she explained. “And I was in Cleveland, Ohio so like let me just stay here for a little bit because that’s where I gave birth.”

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She continued to explain that she didn’t give power to the situation, explaining that people started to ask her if she wanted Thompson in the delivery room after the scandal became public only 48 hours before she gave birth.

“And we’re all going to pretend because of course, I had to have all my siblings in the room and my mom. And I said, ‘We’re going to all…it’s going to be hard for you guys but let’s all act like this didn’t happen because my daughter’s going to see this home footage one day, and I don’t want her to ever see, to know.”

“I was thinking for my daughter True,” Kardashian explained. “And I get sad if I ever see myself because I can tell I’m blank and it’s an out-of-body experience. I just went into autopilot. And I just went into, I’m not here, I was not present. But my body was there, I gave birth, I did what I had to do.”

“But it was for her. I thought of her. I was like, ‘For her memories, I want her to know her dad was in the room.’ And then when it was done, I was like, ‘I can’t talk to you’ when I put my home camera down. But I made sure to do what I needed to do for her.”

In addition to daughter True, Kardashian and Thompson share son Tatum, 2.

source: people.com