Kim Kardashian and Kanye West. Shutterstock (2)
A significant gesture. Amid their divorce, Kanye West was there for Kim Kardashian as she handled threats of a probably resurfaced intercourse tape — which the rapper later retrieved for her.
“So Kanye flew residence final evening, and he got here again this morning. I need to present you guys what he acquired me. He acquired me the entire intercourse tape again,” Kim, 41, emotionally revealed to her family and friends throughout a brand new episode of Hulu’s The Kardashians, which premiered on Thursday, April 28. “He flew residence, and he acquired the pc it was on and the laborious drive. He met with Ray J on the airport, and he acquired all of it again for me.”
The truth star, who was hours away from her Saturday Evening Reside internet hosting debut, famous that Kanye’s actions helped their complete household. The estranged couple share children North, 8, Saint, 6, Chicago, 4, and Psalm, 2.
“I do know Kanye did this for me, however he additionally did this for my children,” she added. “I need to protect them from as a lot as I can. If I’ve the ability to or if Kanye has the ability to, that’s simply crucial factor to me and I’m so emotional due to it. It simply means so much to me.”
Kim clarified that the alleged intercourse tape wasn’t something express. “It was simply footage of us at a restaurant, at a nightclub [and there was] nothing sexual. Nothing bizarre,” she defined to the cameras. “So now I can take a deep breath and never fear about this proper earlier than SNL, proper earlier than the bar and proper at the start.”
On the time, Kris Jenner questioned whether or not Kanye, 44, paid to get the footage. “Undoubtedly no verify. We aren’t getting extorted ever once more,” the Yeezy designer acknowledged. “How good is God that this occurred like proper right here at the moment?”
Kim’s intercourse tape with Ray J, 41, was initially leaked in 2007. After the well-known household rose to fame with Maintaining Up With the Kardashians, the specific video continued to be a subject of dialog. The drama continued to play out within the Hulu actuality sequence when Ray J’s former supervisor Wack 100 claimed that there was a second intercourse tape in his possession late final yr.
The businesswoman’s lawyer Marty Singer denied the existence of one other video — which the wonder mogul mentioned throughout The Kardashians premiere. “The declare that there’s an unreleased intercourse tape is unequivocally false,” the lawyer, 70, beforehand mentioned in a press release to Us Weekly in September 2021. “It’s unlucky that folks make these statements to try to get their quarter-hour of fame.”
Kanye, for his half, later revealed that he met Kim’s ex to retrieve the alleged tape to stop it from going public. “I went and acquired the laptop computer from Ray J myself that evening,” the file producer mentioned throughout an interview on Hollywood Unlocked With Jason Lee in January. “I met this man on the airport, then acquired on a red-eye, got here again [and] delivered it to her at 8 a.m. within the morning.”
The “Stronger” performer recalled how grateful the California native was when he introduced the footage again to her. “She cried when she noticed it. You realize why she cried when she seen it on the laptop computer? As a result of it represents how a lot she’s been used,” he mentioned on the time. “It represents how a lot folks didn’t love her they usually simply noticed her as a commodity.”
New episodes of The Kardashians air on Hulu Thursdays.
