After 8 years, Kim's ex-husband talks about how difficult it was for him to divorce this celeb.
Before Kanye West crossed her path, Kim Kardashian had already been married twice: to music producer Damon Thomas (from 2000 to 2003) and to NBA player Kris Humphries (with whom she was only married for 72 days). , in 2011 ).
Now, the athlete has broken his silence about his marriage to Kim coinciding with the announcement of his retirement from the courts, to remember the media frenzy that arose around their separation and the continuous harassment he had to endure in subsequent years.
"Look, I should have known what I was getting myself into. I didn't realize how much it was going to change my life, of course. But what really bothers me is hearing people say it was all a hoax. Many aspects of that world are not completely true, but as far as our relationship is concerned, it was one hundred percent real," he said in an essay written for the specialized portal The Players' Tribune, in which he admits that he was naive while he was he was delving into the life defined by reality television and the fame of his ex.
"When it started to become clear that things weren't working... what can I say? It was the worst. It's never easy to face what it means to go through something like this, in front of your family and your friends... But when you also have to D it in front of the whole world, in such a public way, is brutal," added the former NBA star.
That experience, as he admits, changed him permanently: he went from being a person with an outgoing and trusting character to distrusting anyone who approached him on the street (due to his encounters with complete strangers who tried to record him or who rebuked him without apparent reason) and to suffer anxiety attacks when in a crowd.
"There was a year when I went through a bad time. I didn't even want to leave the house. I felt... I don't know... that the world hated me, without even knowing me," he acknowledges in the text, in which he states that during a very long season **wished she could be anyone other than Kris Humphries. **
On a professional level, his association with the Kardashians also took its toll on him. The worst, in his opinion, was the massive boos he faced in his matches because they made him feel that he had lost the respect of the fans forever.
