Kim and Khloé Kardashian reveal hardest moment to film for their new Hulu show
MALIBU, Calif. — When you've lived your life on reality TV long enough, you become used to cameras – even as they capture your most painful and unexpected moments.
It's something Khloé Kardashian knows well, as her family prepares for the Thursday premiere of their new Hulu show "The Kardashians," which follows the 20-season, 14-year run of E's "Keeping Up with the Kardashians."
"I don't really remember I'm being filmed," Khloé says, seated beside sisters Kim Kardashian, Kourtney Kardashian, Kendall Jenner and Kylie Jenner and her mother Kris Jenner. "I'm so immune to the filming."
But she's not immune to pain.
When asked about the hardest moment to film for the new show, Khloé says it was the morning Kim called about Tristan Thompson. The NBA player, who shares 4-year-old daughter True Thompson with Khloé, confessed on Instagram in January to fathering a child with another woman.
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"That was hard," she says.
"I think that was hard for me too," Kim adds, explaining that she called her sister while filming a workout.
It's not the first Thompson scandal Khloé's had to weather. Reports of the demise of their relationship surfaced in 2019, as outlets linked the athlete to model Jordyn Woods, a then-close friend of Khloé's younger sister Kylie.
"Déjà vu," Khloé quips. "I think the first time it was either Kendall or Kylie that called me. Now it's good old Kim."
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Khloé says the pain "doesn't get easier" — but "you do become more numb" to it.
"When you're hurt so many times – your reactions, your responses to the same thing happening over and over again – there is a numbing sensation to it," she says.
Kourtney adds: "It almost becomes normal, when it should absolutely never become normal."
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Kris says the latest Thompson drama caught the whole family off guard.
Such moments "are a bit shocking, but you're not really focused on the filming of it at all until you watch it back."
Khloé and Thompson's tumultuous relationship, which began in 2016, has played out across headlines and on "Keeping Up," which aired its series finale in June 2021.
Days before True arrived in 2018, TMZ and the Daily Mail published photos and video of a man identified as the basketball player kissing and fondling various women. One video was shot that April inside a Manhattan club. Another, picturing two women kissing and groping him, was filmed in October 2017 in Washington, D.C.
In a March 2019 interview on "Red Table Talk," Woods, then 21, admitted she and Thompson kissed, but denied speculation she was the reason for Khloé and Thompson's split.
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Khloé thought differently. She took to Twitter after the episode to accuse Woods of being the reason her family "broke up."
"Why are you lying @jordynwoods ?? If you’re going to try and save yourself by going public, INSTEAD OF CALLING ME PRIVATELY TO APOLOGIZE FIRST, at least be HONEST about your story."
Khloé later walked back her comments, admitting she was going through a rough time and felt humiliated by the rumors, and apologized for blaming Woods.
"What’s been harder & more painful is being hurt by someone so close to me. Someone whom I love & treat like a little sister," she tweeted. "But Jordyn is not to be blamed for the breakup of my family. This was Tristan’s fault."
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Contributing: Erin Jensen, Hannah Yasharoff
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Kim Kardashian, Khloé reveal hardest moment to film for new Hulu show
