It's safe to say Khloe Kardashian has had terrible luck with men.
After her highly publicised divorce from Lamar Odom, Khloe's fans were hopeful she had at last found 'the one' when she met Tristan Thompson.
The pair embarked on a romance in 2016, and Khloe's pal Malika Haqq told PEOPLE the basketball player was treating Khloe as she deserved.
"He's really nice to her," Malika said.
"He's the coolest guy in the world — and you know, Khloe's always loved basketball."
But in December, Tristan's ex-girlfriend Jordan Craig gave birth to their first child, Prince Oliver.
Reports suggested Tristan had begun his relationship with Khloe while he was still with Jordan and she was pregnant, and that was the reason they split.
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Jordan insisted there had been an overlap in the relationships, but Khloe denied this was the case.
"He never left ANYONE for me," she tweeted.
Loved up Khloe wrote a blog post in the New Year, revealing their romance was "very normal" and she was finally happy.
"It's such a great feeling that I have my happy back!" she wrote.
She continued: "It's from a genuine place and the most peaceful place I've been in for longer than I can even remember."
That September, rumours swirled that Khloe was pregnant with her first child, news she confirmed in December by posting a black and white photo of her baby bump with Tristan's arms around her.
But around the same time, she was hit by devastating news - Tristan had cheated.
Snogging other women
TMZ reported it had received video showing a man who appeared to be Tristan in a club kissing three other women who were not Khloe.
The publication eventually released the footage the following April.
Not only that, but the Daily Mail shared a video of a man reported to be Tristan kissing a woman at a bar in New York, and he was later photographed heading to a hotel with the same woman.
More photos allegedly showed another woman, a designer shop worker named Tania, heading into the same NYC hotel with Tristan around the same time, eating out together and also partying alongside him at a club.
Just hours after the footage surfaced, Khloe gave birth to her baby, True Thompson, whose father was present at the birth despite his alleged infidelity.
"Regardless of what Tristan did to me, I was never going to take that moment away from True or Tristan," Khloe wrote on Twitter.
"She should not be punished for his actions. He is her father and they both deserve to love one another as deeply as they possibly can."
Khloe also wrote that she and Tristan were "rebuilding their relationship" and that she was proud of her own strength.
For months, it appeared the couple had moved past their struggles as they holidayed together in Mexico and celebrating Thanksgiving in 2018 in each other's company.
Sickening betrayal
The following February, reports surfaced that they had once again called it quits.
This came as news broke that Tristan had kissed Jordyn Woods, the 24-year-old live-in best friend of Khloe's little sister Kylie, at a party.
In response, Khloe, 37, posted cryptic Instagram post about 'betrayal' and she favourited a tweet that called Tristan a 'sick man' and Jordyn a 'terrible woman'.
Speaking on Jada Pinkett Smith's Red Table Talk, Jordyn admitted she had shared a quick kiss with Tristan as she was leaving his house.
Khloe furiously tweeted in response: "Why are you lying @jordynwoods??
"If you’re going to try and save yourself by going public, INSTEAD OF CALLING ME PRIVATELY TO APOLOGIZE FIRST, at least be HONEST about your story. BTW, You ARE the reason my family broke up!"
She continued: "Tristan is equally to blame but Tristan is the father of my child.
'Regardless of what he does to me I won't do that to my daughter. He has been addressing this situation PRIVATELY."
Kylie reportedly completely cut Jordyn off following the scandal, and Jordyn's mother condemned the Kardashian clan for abandoning her so brutally.
Khloe was seen screaming and crying in an emotional phone call on Keeping Up with the Kardashians.
"My family is ruined," she sobbed.
"It’s really hard to regain trust," she later said in her confessional.
"In one stupid weekend you just demolish a relationship."
Speaking to her sisters about the kiss between Jordyn and 30-year-old Tristan, Khloe said: "This is a debilitating blow to my soul. It's so humiliating, it's hard, and there are some days you just want to cry."
Khloe later claimed she was now single and co-parenting True with Tristan in the most peaceful way possible for the sake of their daughter.
But Tristan still publicly professed his love for Khloe in tender Instagram posts, congratulating her for winning a People's Choice Award and praising her as a mother.
On her 36th birthday, he wrote: "I'm wise enough now to know, you came into my life to show me just what it means to be an incredible person.
"I appreciate how I am able to learn from and grow because of you. I thank God for the beautiful and loving woman you are to everyone, especially our daughter True."
Public spat
In July 2020, it was claimed Khloe and Tristan were having another go at their relationship.
But a year later, Tristan got into an embarrassing public row with Khloe's ex-husband Lamar, who famously cheated on her several times.
When Khloe posted a stunning photo of herself bikini-clad underneath a shower, Lamar left the flirty comment: "Hottie," with flames, love heart eyes and heart emojis.
Tristan was clearly infuriated, and he replied: "God brought you back the first time.
"Play if you want different results."
He was cruelly referring to the time Lamar almost died in 2015 following a drug overdose that landed him in a four-day coma.
Lamar later explained he'd suffered from 12 strokes and six heart attacks, ending up on life support and given four hours to live.
Khloe opted not to get involved in the nasty spat, but her fans were angry at Tristan for trying to claim the moral high ground and threaten Lamar after his own indiscretions.
Secret baby and affair
By December 2021, the couple were rocked by more cheating allegations.
The Daily Mail obtained court documents that showed Tristan had been unfaithful again with a woman named Maralee Nichols in an affair spanning from December 2020 to March 2021, and she was now pregnant with his baby.
After Maralee gave birth on December 1st, Tristan insisted the baby have a paternity test as he furiously denied being the father.
In turn, she sued him for child support and "pregnancy-related fees".
In Maralee's lawsuit she included a text that appeared to show Tristan offering her $75,000 in 'hush money'.
It read: "You know how I feel. My feelings haven’t changed at all. Won’t be involved at all. Btw if you think having this baby is gonna make you some money.
"It’s completely wrong. You are aware that I’m retiring after this season. So in terms of support it will be whatever is required monthly for someone who’s unemployed. It’s Texas so it will be only a couple hundred dollars.
"So you better off taking this 75k I’m offering cause you won’t get nothing near that with having a kid with a father who’s unemployed."
Thompson reportedly said that his only sexual interaction with Nichols in 2021 was in March, on his 30th birthday.
When the paternity test proved Tristan was indeed the baby's father, he issued a grovelling apology to Khloe.
"Today paternity test results reveal that I fathered a child with Maralee Nichols," he wrote.
"I take full responsibility for my actions. Now that paternity has been established I look forward to amicably raising our son.
"I sincerely apologise to everyone I've hurt or disappointed throughout this ordeal both publicly and privately.
"Khloe, you don't deserve this. You don't deserve the heartache and humiliation I have caused you."
He continued: "You don't deserve the way I have treated you over the years. My actions certainly have not lined up with the way I view you.
"I have the upmost respect and love for you. Regardless of what you may think. Again, I am so incredibly sorry."
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