Kim Kardashian Rejects Claims She’s Keeping Children From Kanye: ‘It’s Not a Kidnapping. It’s a Divorce’
Kardashian says she hasn’t had contact with Kanye in months.

Kim Kardashian got candid about her relationship with Kanye West in a new episode of Call Her Daddy with Alex Cooper, revealing how she’s navigated co-parenting, public perception, and the emotional toll of their split.
“It’s probably been a couple months since we’ve heard from him,” she said, noting that their four kids—North, 12; Chicago, 7; Saint, 9; and Psalm, 6—have adapted to the reality of their father’s busy, unpredictable lifestyle.
“They always knew he had a big life traveling and was always on tour," she said. "We manage it really well. They love their life and their routine.”
But the idea that she’s been keeping Kanye away from the family and making it difficult to see them, she said, couldn’t be further from the truth.
“One thing that gets to me is that there’s this narrative that I keep the kids away from him. I’ve never once done that,” she said, further explaining that she has proof she’s been the opposite.
“There’s been so many times where I’ve been like, ‘I just want to show all of these texts," she said. "I’ve begged them to go hang out…then I wake up and there’s all these tweets about how I’ve kidnapped the kids. And I’m like, ‘It’s not a kidnapping. It’s a divorce.’”
She also opened up about what ultimately led her to leave the marriage after nearly seven years.
“It was not feeling safe — not even physically, just emotionally or financially,” she explained. “We had, like, five Lamborghinis, and I’d come home and they’d all be gone if he was in an episode. I’d be like, ‘Oh wait, where’s all our cars?’ And it would be like, ‘Oh, he gave them away to all his friends.’”
Kardashian filed for divorce from West in 2021 after months of increasingly erratic public behavior from the rapper. Their divorce was finalized in 2022, with both agreeing to joint custody.
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