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Kim Kardashian is addressing rumors about herself and her sister Kourtney Kardashian’s husband, Travis Barker.
During her Wednesday, Oct. 15 appearance on Call Her Daddy, the SKIMS founder, 44, was asked directly by host Alex Cooper if she “ever hooked up” with the Blink-182 drummer “in the past.”
“No, I never have,” Kim said. “Absolutely, that I do not mind you asking. I never have and it really sucks that has gone on.”
Kim then detailed how her friendship with Barker, 49, began, adding that the relationship was purely platonic.
“He dated Paris [Hilton] and we were all friends and we’d all hang out when I was with Paris. We’d be on the road and go to, like, their tour in Amsterdam,” she said. “So I have been friends with him … And never hooked up with him.”
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Cooper, 31, also asked Kim if she had a “heads up” that she’d be referenced in Barker’s 2016 memoir, Can I Say, in which he revealed he once had a crush on her.
“No,” she said. “But it would say that we never hooked up. I mean, I don’t think he would allude to that information, you know?”
She added, “Kourtney was around during that time. So they were neighbors for a decade. So when everyone was all hanging out… he was always around with his kids. They’d always come to Kourtney’s house for all the birthdays. Everything was super open and cool and everyone’s been friends. He was just as good of friends with them as he was with all of us. It was nothing weird.”
Kim previously addressed the rumor back in 2021, responding to a follower-submitted question on Instagram and calling the claim that they hooked up a “false narrative.” Kim added at the time that she and Barker had “been friends for years, and I’m so happy for him and Kourt.”
In his 2016 memoir, which was published before he began dating Kourtney (whom he later wed in 2022), Barker wrote that he had a crush on Kim in the ’00s, found her “f—ing hot” and kept “secretly checking [her] out” despite the fact that he was then dating Hilton, now 44. Speaking with the Los Angeles Times in 2023, Barker shut down the “ridiculous” speculation that him having a crush on Kim two decades prior had anything to do with the sisters’ relationship with each other.
“You give people a little information and they think they’ve solved the mystery of ‘this is why they’re fighting.’ It’s just so ridiculous,” Barker said. “It’s like, ‘Kourtney’s fans are worried about Travis. He’s a womanizer.’ Stop it.”
Speaking on the memoir, Barker explained that he “obviously shared all that stuff because I wanted to move past it,” calling it “therapeutic” for him.
“That’s her sister,” he added. “She knows we used to talk. Nothing bad was going on.”
Elsewhere during her Call Her Daddy conversation, Kim reflected on her marriage to Kanye West, spoke about its impact on her previous relationship with Pete Davidson and gave some insight into motherhood. She also addressed having been cheated on in the past, and how she discovered it when her unnamed ex told her “long after” the alleged incident occurred.
“I was in a tough position. I didn’t [end the relationship],” Kim said. “And I was in a tough position because I don’t think they were in a position to have shared that information. It wasn’t like a healthy place. And so I kind of didn’t know if I should take it seriously or not. I had to wait a time period to really assess and see what was happening.”
