Kim Kardashian says she couldn’t deny the Yeezy heel even after everything. (Photo by MEGA/GC Images)
Kim Kardashian is speaking out about where things stand with Kanye West, and she’s making it clear that even after everything, he’s still not someone she can just cut out of her life.
In a new interview, Kardashian addressed her relationship with her ex-husband after West, who now goes by Ye, published a long apology for his past antisemitic rants. The apology letter was printed in The Wall Street Journal earlier this month, and in it, Ye blamed his past erratic behavior partly on a brain injury from a near-fatal car crash in 2002.
Ye also said the injury may have made his bipolar disorder worse. He was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 2016, while he was still married to Kardashian. The two share four children together, North, 12, Saint, 10, Chicago, eight, and Psalm, six.
Despite their divorce being finalized in 2022, Kardashian told Complex that they are still working together as co-parents.
“We’ll always be family. We both know that,” the 45-year-old reality star said, after being asked about praising a pair of boots from Ye’s Yeezy brand in a January video.
She also made it clear that her focus is still on keeping things stable for their kids.
“We will be okay, and there’s so much love for our family,” Kardashian added. “We want what’s best for our kids. I couldn’t deny the Yeezy heel, so I had to shout it out.”
In the TikTok video, the All’s Fair star showed fans how she styled an outfit while in Aspen and pointed out that the look came together perfectly with brown leather boots from Ye’s clothing brand.
“I will say, there’s nothing like a Yeezy heel,” she said in the video. “I don’t know if they ever made these or just made them for me. I love when a shoe is tonal to the pant.”
Kardashian’s comments came just days after Ye’s printed apology, titled “To Those I’ve Hurt,” was published in The Wall Street Journal.
“Twenty-five years ago, I was in a car accident that broke my jaw and caused injury to the right frontal lobe of my brain,” Ye, 48, wrote. “At the time, the focus was on the visible damage — the fracture, the swelling, and the immediate physical trauma. The deeper injury, the one inside my skull, went unnoticed.”
He added that the “possibility of a frontal-lobe injury” was not raised until he was diagnosed with one in 2023.
Ye also admitted he regrets what he said and did during his manic episodes, writing that he “lost touch with reality” and “gravitated toward the most destructive symbol I could find, the swastika, and even sold T-shirts bearing it.”
“I regret and am deeply mortified by my actions in that state, and am committed to accountability, treatment, and meaningful change,” he wrote. “It does not excuse what I did though. I am not a Nazi or an antisemite. I love Jewish people.”
Ye also apologized to the Black community and opened up about mental health struggles last year, including “a four-month-long manic episode of psychotic, paranoid and impulsive behavior that destroyed my life.”
Some critics questioned the timing of the apology, pointing out it came as Ye prepares to release his upcoming album, Bully. But in an email to Vanity Fair, Ye pushed back on those claims.
“It’s my understanding that I was in the top 10 most listened-to artists overall in the U.S. on Spotify in 2025, and last week and most days as well. My upcoming album, Bully, is currently one of the most anticipated pre-saves of any album on Spotify too,” he stated.
“My 2007 album, Graduation, was also the most listened-to and streamed hip-hop album of 2025. This, for me, as evidenced by the letter, isn’t about reviving my commerciality. This is because these remorseful feelings were so heavy on my heart and weighing on my spirit.”
