Kylie Jenner is opening up about what really happened following her big family drama in 2019.
The internet was ablaze in 2019, when rumors of Tristan Thompson cheating on Khloé Kardashian with one of her sister’s closest friends made their way online. It wasn’t long before those rumors were confirmed.
Thompson was accused of kissing Kylie Jenner’s then-BFF Jordyn Woods at a party, which Woods later admitted to. Following the kiss, Jordyn moved out of the house she lived in with Kylie, and the Kardashian family seemingly cut off all contact.
“I didn’t know how to feel. I was like, ‘That didn’t just happen,'” Woods told Cosmopolitan UK months later. “I [told him] ‘I need to go.’ I was leaving already so I walked out immediately. I got in the car. I was in shock.”
“You know that saying, ‘I feel so alone in a room full of people’? I went through a phase of thinking, ‘I’m going to isolate myself because I don’t know how I feel,” she continued. “I don’t know what the right thing to do is.”
Jordyn went on to say, “I just needed some time by myself to try to understand what was happening, why it happening, and how am I going to react to this internally, you know? How can I make things right with myself, with God and with my relationships?”
“Would I ever have wanted this to happen? Never,” Woods admitted. “But s**t happens. And in the end, I never want to see anyone hurt; I would hate to be the reason for anyone’s pain. We all have to go to sleep with ourselves at night.”
In 2023, years after that fateful night, Kylie and Jordyn were spotted together, publicly, for the first time since their friendship breakup. The pair went to get sushi at an LA hot spot, where they were seen by paparazzi.
Now, Jenner has revealed that their dinner together that night wasn’t actually the first time they talked. In fact, they’ve been in communication this whole time.
Kylie opened up about her relationship with Jordyn during an interview with Jennifer Lawrence. In their conversation for Interview magazine, Lawrence asked about their reconciliation and how things are going now.
“Jordyn and I, we always stayed in touch throughout the years and we would meet up at my house and catch up and just talk through everything,” Kylie told Jennifer Lawrence. “We never fully cut each other off, and one day, naturally, we were like, we want to get sushi and we don’t want to hide anymore.”
She continued: “There’s a learning lesson in everything, and I think that in a weird way, everything happens how it’s supposed to happen. We were so attached at the hip that we needed space to grow into the people that we were supposed to be.”
In the end, the situation worked out for Kylie, who felt like she needed some separation from her former best friend.
“I needed that independence and that confidence because she was like my security blanket for so long,” she said.
“I get that and I’m happy that you still have that in a healthier way,” Lawrence told Jenner. “She was so young and she made a mistake, but those lifetime friends are very important.”
“Yeah, I agree,” Jenner said of being young and making mistakes. And now, it seems like she was understanding of that perspective all along.
Now that their rekindled friendship is public, it seems like Jordyn and Kylie are only growing closer. In the September 2019 issue of Cosmopolitan UK, Woods admitted that she hoped someday she and Kylie would be close again.
“I love her,” she said of Jenner following the scandal. “That’s my homie.”
“I hope everything falls into place and that we can all grow and build our relationships with our family and God and come back together one day and be stronger and happier.”
Now, Woods is living a life of her own apart from the Kardashian family, with whom she was attached to for so long.
She is currently in a relationship with NBA star Karl Anthony Towns. Jordyn and Towns were introduced by mutual friends, but it wasn’t until years later that their close friendship blossomed into a relationship.
“He does so much for me. I do what I can for him,” Jordyn said of her and her boyfriend. “I want to say it’s a lot. So when it’s time to show that appreciation, we like to go all out.”
Woods also noted that “quality time” also helps keep their relationship strong, saying that she wants to be there for “as many” of Towns’ games as she can.
“It’s his birthday in a few days, so I’m going to go to that game,” she said at the time.
Another way the pair shows their love is with gifts.
“We love gift giving and … What is it? The love language? The love language is quality time. We love everything,” Jordyn said.
As for the Kardashians and their relationship with Tristan Thompson, it seems like not too much has changed. While him and Khloé are no longer together, they still very closely coparent their two children.
On a recent episode of The Kardashians, Tristan went to Kylie’s house to apologize directly for the scandal with Jordyn. While the incident happened years ago, the pair never found the right time to talk about it until now.
“I think you were affected the most by a situation of losing a sister, basically,” the baller told Jenner. “You lost Jordyn, who is a big part of your life.”
In his recent apology, Thompson took full responsibility for kissing Jordyn. Woods said previously, “It was a kiss on the lips, no tongue kiss, no making out.”
“It’s 100 percent on me, but I want to say I’m sorry and I feel bad about it,” he told Kylie. “The fact that I came with my poor decisions and being a f***ing idiot and just being young and stupid, I just wanted to say I’m sorry again for that.”
Jenner accepted Thompson’s apology and echoed the same sentiment about needing some healthy separation from Woods.
“I appreciate that. I think I was so co-dependent with Jordyn that I could have never imagined my life without her,” Kylie said.
“We would have probably still been living together,” she continued. “I think she needed to grow without me, I needed to grow without her.”