Kim Kardashian revealed that her 12-year-old daughter, North West, once encouraged her to start dating again after thinking she was upstairs crying.
The reality star opened up about the sweet yet emotional moment during her recent appearance on Alex Cooper’s Call Her Daddy podcast. Before sharing the story, Kim discussed how difficult it’s been to stay silent during some of the toughest moments following her divorce from Kanye West.
As covered earlier in the interview, Kanye has made multiple public claims about their co-parenting situation—claims that Kim has repeatedly denied, especially suggestions that he’s been kept from seeing their kids.
“I don’t care what you say about me,” Kim told Alex during Wednesday’s episode. “I don’t care what you say about the world and your beliefs, any of that. Anything about my children, I don’t care what it is, that’s hard for me to sit back and be like, ‘Come on,’ you know? Even just sharing stuff about them. It’s hard to sit back when he says things about my mom. That’s what’s really hard for me because she loves him, and to this day still does and is super emotional about it and sad about it. It was a big part of our lives.”
Despite the challenges, Kim said she’s still hopeful that she and Ye will eventually have the kind of co-parenting relationship she saw between her own parents growing up. She also makes a conscious effort to speak positively about him in front of their children, no matter how she personally feels.
“I mean, my kids, I say such positive things about their dad that North had to say to me, ‘Mom, I think you go upstairs and cry at night. It’s okay. It’s time to move on. You need to have a boyfriend now,’” Kim recalled. “And I’m like, wait, what? What? I cry? No, I’m getting a massage upstairs. What do you think is happening? And I was like, oh my god. I say such positive things all the time and I’m, like, in the car if they want to listen to music, like as hard as it is for me, I want them to think the best things.”
You can watch Kim and Alex’s full conversation below. During the episode, Kim clarified that she’s currently single—and has been “for a while.”