Kris Jenner is speaking out about why she continues to maintain close relationships with her daughters’ ex-partners despite past drama and public scrutiny.
During her November 17 appearance on On Purpose with Jay Shetty, the 70-year-old matriarch addressed criticism about her willingness to keep her daughters’ former partners including the fathers of her grandchildren involved in family celebrations.
“I fall in love with people, have lives and years spent with their partners or their boyfriends or their husbands,” Kris said on the podcast. “And I have all these memories and travels and Christmas morning celebrations and birthdays and all the fun, the laughter, the joys, the tears, the babies.”
She added that many of these men are parents to her 13 grandchildren. “These are, in most cases, the fathers of my grandchildren. And I love these men, and that love doesn’t go away when we experience really challenging times with them. It just doesn’t turn off like that for me.”
Kris said her daughters’ exes know “they can always come to me,” describing her approach as an “open door” policy.
Though she acknowledged that “a lot of people don’t understand” her choice to remain connected to men who have “treated [her daughters] badly,” she emphasized that conflicts, including cheating scandals, are addressed privately.
“We don’t need to talk about these things anymore. It’s been done. It’s dealt with,” she said. “We’ve talked about it. We all know what’s happened. We’ve had it on the show or we’ve had it in our lives. Now it’s time to grow the f— up, be mature. I love who I’ve loved and I don’t like what they’ve done. No I don’t. But it doesn’t make the love get any less overnight.”
As a grandmother, Kris said she is also mindful of how her behavior reflects on her grandchildren. “What will my grandkids think 20 years from now if their grandmother treated their dad poorly?” she asked. “Or I wasn’t loving and kind and compassionate and forgiving? So I teach my kids forgiveness. It’s one of the biggest lessons that I can teach them, to forgive somebody whose treated you badly and move on.”
Kris has stayed close with several of her daughters’ former partners, including Tristan Thompson, who recently attended her 70th birthday celebration. Thompson has publicly admitted to cheating on Khloé Kardashian, with whom he shares two children. “Tristan comes walking in the back door and [says], ‘Hey Mom, what’s up?’ ” Kris said. “So they’re always around and we embrace them.”
She also continues to maintain a close relationship with Kylie Jenner’s ex, Travis Scott, the father of daughter Stormi and son Aire. “I’m close to Travis and I love his mom and his dad and his sister and his brother,” she said. “They’re family to us. And we share celebrations together.”
Kris noted that keeping exes included in family traditions is something she carried over from her own upbringing. She referenced her divorce from Robert Kardashian in 1991, explaining that they prioritized holidays and milestones together even after separating. “Robert Kardashian came to Kendall and Kylie’s first birthdays, and he was there for every celebration and they called him Uncle Robert and he walked through that back door whenever he wanted knowing there would be dinner on the table at 6 o’clock and he was always welcome.”
Source: People