Khloé Kardashian‘s relationship withCaitlyn Jennerchanged after the Olympian published her memoir.
Last week, Caitlyn, 70, claimed on an episode of the British reality show,I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!,that she and Khloé, 35,had not “really” spokenin six years.
Now, a source tells PEOPLE that while the pair have seen each other “many times” over the years, it’s true that they don’t speak regularly.
During the episode, Caitlyn said their relationship has been strained since shepublicly came out as transgenderin 2015. She shares sonBurt, 41, and daughterCassandra, 39, with ex-wifeChrystieCrownover; sons Brandon, 38, andBrody, 36, with ex-wifeLinda Thompson; and daughtersKendall, 24, andKylie, 22, with exKris Jenner. She also helped raise Kris’ four older children: Khloé,Kourtney,KimandRob Kardashian.
The Kardashian sisters have been open about the fact that passages ofCaitlyn’s 2017 memoircreated a riftin the family. In the book, Caitlyn claimed Kris knew she had struggled with her gender identity and experimented with cross-dressing for years, which the momager denied.
Khloé has also said she felt like “business people” found out about Caitlyn’s transition before the family did, and that she felt like she had lost the man who helped raise her.
“Not having you in my life, it’s a huge blow because I’m like okay, my second dad, this guy that I’ve grown up with, that raised me, was taken away from me,” she said onKeeping Up with the Kardashiansin 2017. “No one really let me have that.”
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“The only one that was really — and I still, even to today, can’t quite figure it out — was Khloé,” Caitlyn said of her children and stepchildren’s reactions to her transition. “Khloé for some reason was pissed off about something through this whole process. Honestly, it’s been five, six years and I really haven’t talked to her since. … I don’t know what it is, and that’s all I can say.”
“And Khloé and I were really close,” Caitlyn added. “I raised Khloé since she was 5 years old. I don’t know what her issues are, I really don’t know.”
Caitlynis competingonI’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!season 19. On the show, contestants face off in challenges in the hopes that they get voted King or Queen of the Jungle and donate their winnings to a charity of their choice.
On another recent episode, shegave a cheeky answerwhen asked what her favorite body part is, responding, “Well let me put it this way, it’s changed in the last five years … and I’ll leave that up to you.”
Earlier this year, sheopened up about the emotional conversationshe had with her children when she first came out to her family.
“I brought each one, I have 10 children, each one into my house one at a time, I didn’t want them to gang up on me,” she said in an interview withGIBLIB. “I thought I’d do it one at a time.”
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“We opened up this conversation with my kids,” she added. “And it was great. They were all very accepting. And I moved on in my life.”
source: people.com
