“The paternity test results show that I had a child with Maralee Nichols.
I take full responsibility for my actions”, wrote Tristan Thompson on Instagram, January 4, 2022. Then in a relationship for several years with Khloé Kardashian, the public “humiliation” suffered by the latter had led straight to their separation .
But since last week, a new twist has been added to the love saga between one of the Kardashian sisters and the professional basketball player.
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According to information from the
People
site , confirmed by a source close to the family, on July 13, the terrible couple is indeed expecting a second child, fertilized by surrogate mother.
"We can confirm that True (
4 years old, editor's note
) will have a brother or a sister", affirmed the representative, nevertheless refuting the rumors of reconciliations (however usual) between the two ex-spouses.
A look back at a tumultuous relationship, made up of lies and back and forth.
Hidden beginnings
Their love story began with a kiss, immortalized on social networks, on October 31, 2016. On the occasion of the Halloween party, Khloé Kardashian and her boyfriend, the Chicago Bulls basketball player , Tristan Thompson, go hand in hand to a costume party.
That evening, they chain the publications, photos and videos, show themselves mouth to mouth and formalize their relationship in broad daylight.
If they seem to be spinning the perfect love, the basketball player is, at the same time, already engaged with the model Jordan Craig, with whom he is expecting his first child.
The young woman will give birth two weeks later, on December 12, 2016, to a little boy named Prince, now 5 years old.
After a stormy divorce in 2013, with the basketball player Lamar Odom - in particular because of his drug addiction -, Khloé Kardashian finds love in the arms of this other professional player, NBA champion in 2016, and decides to ignore the pregnancy. of his ex-girlfriend.
Invited on the set of the show "The Late Late Show With James Corden", in 2017, she confided to being "very happy".
The same year, in the columns of the
Mail On Sunday
, she reiterated her words, opening up a little more about their idyll: “I am in the best relationship I have ever had.
Tristan is very protective.
To feel loved, validated and safe is an incredible thing.”
Advancing at full speed, the couple then announced, in December 2017, the pregnancy of Khloé Kardashian.
The watered sprinkler
But the basketball player has not finished waltzing with his old demons.
In April 2018, as the reality TV star prepares to give birth to their daughter, True, she becomes aware, for the first time, of her husband's infidelities.
Indeed, Tristan Thomson made the front page of tabloids, including the
Daily Mail
, after kissing a woman in a New York club.
A few days later, other images leaked, this time showing him surrounded by several young ladies in a shisha bar in Washington.
The blow is hard for the future mother.
Two days later, on April 12, Khloé Kardashian was transported to a hospital in Cleveland, where she gave birth to her child.
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If sources close to them confide while she is “devastated by recent revelations” published in the press, Khloé Kardashian is in love and decides to forgive.
Her spokespersons explain that she does not want "her personal feelings to ruin one of the most important moments in her baby's life".
Khloé Kardashian and Tristan Thompson start couples therapy.
In 2018, the 38-year-old American responds without filters to many questions from her fans about her history with the basketball player.
“You have no idea what is going on in our household, or the huge rebuilding needed to co-exist.
I am proud of my strength,” she said via a post on Twitter.
But despite the unwavering support of his companion, Tristan Thompson does it again.
First in September 2018, in a Los Angeles nightclub, then in 2019, with Jordyn Woods, a close friend of Khloé Kardashian's half-sister, Kylie Jenner.
If the couple tries their luck again in July 2020, a final betrayal will deal the final blow to their relationship.
In December 2021, Maralee Nichols, a young influencer followed by some 230,000 followers on Instagram, gives birth to a baby boy and ensures that Tristan Thompson is the parent.
Mea culpa
If the latter denies at first, a paternity test will confirm the words of the young woman.
On January 4, 2022, the basketball player is forced to make his mea culpa on his Instagram account.
And to a thought for his ex-girlfriend: “Khloé, you don’t deserve this.
You don't deserve the heartbreak and humiliation I caused you.
You don't deserve the way I've treated you over the years.
My actions don't match the way I see you.
I have the greatest respect and love for you.
It doesn't matter what you may think.
Again, I'm incredibly sorry."
Words that will not be enough to convince the latter.
“I found out what was going on with Tristan at the same time as everyone else.
He cheated on me.
He should not have.
That is.
But in addition, he
The Kardashians
, dedicated to her family.
On July 13, it was therefore with amazement that fans learned of the future birth of a child, impregnated by surrogate mother.
In the columns of the
People
site , a representative of the star assured that the former couple had taken the steps for this pregnancy before the latest revelations of infidelity.
“Khloé and Tristan are not together again and have not spoken since January outside of co-parenting matters,” he said.
We can afford to doubt it.