Kim Kardashian says she wasn’t ’emotionally or financially safe’ during ‘toxic’ marriage to Kanye West as she claims rapper hasn’t contacted their children for MONTHS and has destroyed her dating life

Kim Kardashian has opened up about the lasting impact of her ‘toxic’ marriage to Kanye West – admitting she still finds it hard to date and detailing the struggles of co-parenting.
The reality star, 44, sat down with Alex Cooper on the Call Her Daddy podcast, where she detailed her troubled nine-year relationship with the rapper, 48.
She explained that she was first drawn to Kanye because of his intellect, branding him ‘larger than life’ and saying they had ‘such a fun time’ together.
Yet things soon took a turn when Kanye, who has publicly struggled with his mental health, began to turn on Kim and her family.
‘When someone has like their first mental break, you want to be super supportive and you want to help figure that out and be there for them,’ she explained.
‘But when someone isn’t willing to make changes that I think would’ve been super healthy and beneficial, it makes it really hard to continue on in a relationship that can be toxic.’
Kim Kardashian has opened up about the lasting impact of her ‘toxic’ marriage to Kanye West – admitting she still finds it hard to date and detailing the troubles of co-parenting

Kim, who shares North, 12, Saint, nine, Chicago seven, and Psalm, five, with Kanye, also revealed she has never stopped him from seeing them – but he hasn’t reached out in months
Kim, who shares North, 12, Saint, nine, Chicago seven, and Psalm, five, with Kanye, added that having children made it much harder to leave and that she stuck around because she wanted to believe that Kanye would get better.
In 2016, Kanye was diagnosed with bipolar disorder after being hospitalised for a psychiatric emergency. However, he later claimed he was misdiagnosed.
Yet when things didn’t improve Kim knew it was time to leave and to show their children ‘a good example of setting boundaries.’
She explained that her own mental health began to suffer during her marriage, noting: ‘I had to save myself in order to be a better mum for everyone.
‘And I think when everyone’s older they’ll be able to understand it and see that all.’
Asked what was the ‘final straw’ for her, she mused: ‘There was just a lot of things that I wouldn’t deal with.
‘I didn’t like the talking bad about my kids’ grandmother, aunts – if someone feels that way, then we shouldn’t be together.
‘You know, airing out a lot of stuff, a lot of personal stuff.’

Kim went on to detail how her marriage to Kanye has had a lasting impact on her love life. Since they divorced in 2021, Kim has enjoyed romances with the likes of Pete Davidson
Kim continued: ‘Just not not feeling safe emotionally or even financially… I mean we had five Lamborghinis and I’d come home and they’d all be gone if he was in an episode.
‘And I’d be like, “Oh, hey where’s all our cars? My new car.” And it would be like, “oh, he gave them away to all of his friends.”
‘And then I’d come home again and at a different point we had five more Lamborghinis and then he’d wake up in another episode and they’d all be gone again.
‘But you didn’t know what you’re going to get [from Kanye] when you wake up. And that’s a really unsettling feeling. It’s a lack of stability.’
Kim added that it was particularly hard to watch when Kanye targeted her family during his infamous Twitter meltdowns – famously branding Kim’s mother Kris Jenner, Kris Jong Un.
‘It was really hard to like see my family get treated one way and then me being like, “I’m sorry, guys”, and like then stick with it,’ she recalled.
‘People couldn’t not see it. I think I got really disassociated and there was so many times where I was just really quiet and just trying to figure it all out.’
Despite this, she praised her ‘compassionate’ family for not trying to force her to leave Kanye and for allowing her space to make her own decisions.
She recalled: ‘They knew that I had a lot of love and respect for that relationship and four babies, and that I would have done anything to really make it work.’
Kim also confessed she was worried the public would turn on her for leaving Kanye while he appeared to be in the midst of a mental health crisis but that she doesn’t see the end of the marriage as a ‘failure’, noting they spent years together and have four children.

When Kim was dating SNL star Pete, Kanye famously released a disturbing music video where he appeared to bury a claymation version of him – with Kim admitting it made her ‘sad’ to see
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Reflecting on the Eazy music video, Kim admitted: ‘That made me feel really sad. That really wasn’t fair for [Pete]. And I felt so sad and and sorry for him. He was such a great man’ (Kim and Pete pictured in 2022)
Since their split, Kanye has taken to X/Twitter several times to claim Kim hasn’t granted him access to their children – tweeting that she had ‘kidnapped’ their two sons and two daughters.
Yet as Kim mused: ‘It’s not a kidnapping, it’s a divorce.’
She clarified: ‘I raise the kids full time. They live with me and I welcome a great healthy relationship with my kids and their dad, and I think he knows that.
‘I push for it all the time, but I also protect them when, you know, it’s time for that. And it goes in waves and phases and it’s a lot of work.
Asked when Kanye last saw his children, Kim replied: ‘Whenever he’ll call for them and ask. It’s probably been a couple months since we’ve heard from him.’
Yet she insisted that her children were ‘healthy and happy’ and that she had explained to them that their father spends a lot of time travelling and on tour.
‘They love their life and their routine,’ she mused. ‘And I think my job as their mum is just to make sure that they stick to their routine.
‘It’s not easy no matter what co-parenting with anyone – it’s just the one thing that gets me is that there’s this narrative that I keep the kids away from him. I’ve never once done that.
‘And there’s been so many times where I’ve been like, “Ah, I just want to show all of these texts, what are you talking about?”
‘It’s more just the narrative that I think it’s all good and we’re living our life and then I just wake up and there’s all these tweets about how I’ve kidnapped the kids?!’
Daily Mail has contacted Kanye’s representatives for comment.

Asked what was the ‘final straw’ in her marriage, she revealed it was Kanye talking badly about her family memories and airing their ‘personal’ business (pictured in 2016)
Kim went on to detail how her marriage to Kanye has had a lasting impact on her love life.
Since they divorced in 2021, Kim has enjoyed romances with the likes of Pete Davidson and Odell Beckham Jr.
Kim explained: ‘There has been situations where I’ll get close to someone, then it’s like, “wait, wait, wait, I don’t really want to deal with your ex. I don’t want to deal if he’s going to say something”.
‘So it has been a little frustrating but then I get “my” person wouldn’t care about that.’
When Kim was dating SNL star Pete, Kanye famously fired off a series of troubling social media posts about him and released a disturbing music video where he appeared to bury a claymation version of the comic.
Reflecting on the Eazy music video, Kim admitted: ‘That made me feel really sad. That really wasn’t fair for [Pete].
‘And I felt so sad and and sorry for him. He was such a great man that was like, “I got this, don’t worry it’s all good!” And it just must suck to be put in that position.
‘It’s had me put up this guard where I don’t want to put anyone in that position. So, it’s easier if I just maybe stay away… but then I I can’t live my life like that.’

Kim also confessed that while she has no qualms being single, her eldest daughter North has been pestering her to get a boyfriend
Prior to Kanye, Kim was married twice before – firstly to music producer Damon Thomas whom she divorced in 2000 after six years of marriage, and secondly to basketball Kris Humphries, whom she was famously married to for 72 days.
Kim is currently single and revealed this is the longest she has ever not been in a relationship.
Yet she insisted that she had no desire to jump into another relationship, explaining: ‘I am single and I feel totally content.
‘I have my kids to raise. I have a life that like requires a lot of my attention. And my kids just really need me right now.
‘So I don’t know how I would fit something else in. So I’m just not looking.’
One thing Kim is certain about, however, is that when the time comes to date, she wants somebody who can stimulate her intellectually.
The aspiring lawyer was asked if her next boyfriend would be a rapper or an athlete – her typical types – she insisted: ‘Neither.’
Revealing she was no longer into ‘flashy’ men, she continued: ‘I think we’re going like lawyers and like longevity scientists that can give me all their secrets!’
Kim also confessed that while she has no qualms being single, her eldest daughter North has been pestering her to get a boyfriend.
She revealed the pre-teen had accused her of ‘pretending’ to be ok about her single status and had told her: ‘I think you go upstairs and cry at night.
‘It’s time to move on. You need to have a boyfriend now.’

Elsewhere during the chat, Kim was asked about her extensive glam routine, revealing the huge amount that she spends annually on her hair and beauty
Kim also opened up about the Kardashian ‘curse’ – the theory that every man who gets romantically involved with one of the Kardashian-Jenner sisters suffers a fall from grace.
Hitting back at the viral term, she shared: ‘I think it’s really unfair to say that women are the problem when it comes to issues that our exes might be dealing with…
‘There’s such a fixation on what happened to the men as if there’s no accountability on their part. Like it has to be “you’re all so powerful that you did this to all these men and they have no hand in their life and they have no autonomy.”
‘Someone that doesn’t take accountability is my biggest pet peeve and my biggest red flag.’
Kim did however accept the backlash she received for dressing daughter North in a corset during an outing in Rome over the summer.
She said: ‘It’s really hard and it’s really interesting because all the kids are wearing the same things.
‘But then my daughter tries to wear it and then I’m like “okay we’re never wearing that again.” Unfortunately, we made that mistake in front of the whole world.
‘She’s usually a girl that that dresses like a tomboy most of the time and she wanted to try something that her friends were wearing and went to the same place that they went to… and it’s just like, okay, wait, maybe you can’t wear that, you know?’

Kim accepted the backlash she received for dressing daughter North in a corset during an outing in Rome over the summer, admitting she ‘made a mistake’
Elsewhere during the chat, Kim was asked about her own glam routine, revealing the huge amount that she spends annually on her hair and beauty.
When pressed exactly how much she spends to look so incredibly, she confessed that it was ‘a lot’.
Yet she caveated her answer by pointing out that she rarely has to pay for all of her glam, thanks to her family’s reality show and her other high profile jobs.
‘If I’m filming my show, then they pay for it. If I’m working, then they pay for it. So, I try to get it all paid for so that I don’t personally have to pay for it,’ she explained.
Kim, who is reported to be worth $1.7 billion, admitted though that it was hard to tally up the total cost as ‘I don’t have a concept of what certain simple things cost,.’
‘I’d like to know a little bit more about what, like, a milk carton cost.’
Pressed for an answer, Kim conceded that her glam cost ‘could be a million dollars. Not five. Below five. Maybe one.’
While Kim may be perfectly poised and polished now, she admitted that wasn’t always the case as she reflected on her wild past.

During her interview, the SKIMS founder revealed tales from her party days, including that she was ‘high on drugs’ when she married her first husband Damon Thomas (pictured in 2009)
During her interview, the SKIMS founder revealed tales from her party days, including that she was ‘high on drugs’ when she married her first husband Damon Thomas.
Kim was just 19 when she married the music producer in a whirlwind ceremony at Las Vegas’ Little White Chapel.
She also confessed that she didn’t even tell her family she was getting married, and they first learned of it after finding marital records online.
Kim and Damon, who is 10 years her senior, were married for four years after their Vegas elopement, with the star later branding the union a ‘bad’ mistake.
Alex asked Kim to share the wildest thing she’s ever done after taking ‘Molly’ (which is slang for ecstasy).
She admitted: ‘I think I got married in Vegas.
‘But that was also, I take all of my experiences, I said that, and I have to remember if I was at that moment or if we did it high after.
‘Maybe just like in those days when that was a thing, just maybe getting married and not telling my parents, and Kourtney finding it on the internet because it was public record, and then telling my Dad.’
Kim was also asked the ‘craziest place she’s ever had sex,’ and she quickly replied: ‘Probably a movie theatre, so, fun!’