“ We also , I think , vibed a mint on do fun of Kim . And then I cerebrate when that was plump , Kim and Khloé were vibing . And then I was the one who got gang up up on . ”
The Kardashianshas finally returned to our screens with its third season — and right off the bat, it’s full of drama.
If you missed it, the season premiere of the hitreality showaired on Hulu last night and featured — among many things —Kourtney Kardashianopenly critiquing the way the KarJenners attempt to support one another during tough times.
For a quick bit of context, Kourt has somewhatdistanced herselffrom the rest of her family in recent years. After speaking with a therapist back in 2017, who advised her to reevaluate her priorities in life, she began to spend less time filming for their former show,Keeping Up With the Kardashians, and more time with her three kids: Mason, Penelope, and Reign.
This decision is something that caused tons of tension between Kourtney and her sisters — namelyKim Kardashian. Their differences were perhaps made most apparent when Kourt told Kim that she didn’t“agree” with who she was “as a human being”amid a heated fight in 2018, during which she called her entire family “disgusting.”
More recently, Kourt has been open about how she“wasn’t in the happiest place”when she was constantly fighting with her sisters while shootingKUWTK.
“Shooting our show, it became a really toxic environment at the end for me,” she toldBustlelast March. “I would fight with my sisters. There was, like, just a lot going on. And even for me personally, I wasn’t in the happiest place.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Kourtney noted that getting caught up in filming the show made her and her sisters forget that they “actually love each other.”
Now, in the latest installment ofThe Kardashianson Hulu, Kourt is once again raising questions about her family members’ relationships with one another beyond the surface level.
In the premiere episode, Kourtney and Khloé Kardashian sit down for a conversation about Khloé’sprecancerous melanoma tumor, which she’s hadremoved from her facesince the footage was filmed. Earlier on, we see Khloé’sbest friend,Malika Haqq, breaking down in tears as she expresses her fear over the tumor.
When Kourtney later asks Khloé how she’s coping, Khloé says, “It’s scary waiting for results and all that,” before hastily adding, “I don’t like to be an extra burden. We all have our own stuff going on.”
This prompts Kourt to say in a confessional, “Khloé definitely keeps her problems to herself.”
“I think, probably, she doesn’t feel comfortable being vulnerable with everything that she’s been through,” she adds.
Kourtney then tells Khloé that she feels their family members aren’t good at supporting one another “on a deeper level.”
“I was thinking about how, in our family, we’re so good at celebrating and having fun. We’re also good at lifting each other up when we’re in a crisis … but almost in a superficial way,” she says.
“I don’t think we know how to be there for each other on a deeper level,” she adds.
Khloé’s jaw drops as soon as Kourtney says this. “What?!” she questions. Kourtney asks, “Do you?” to which Khloé says, “I think I do.”
“When there’s something pretty traumatic or devastating in the family, I feel like we’re all by that person’s side,” Khloé adds in a confessional. “That’s my experience, and if Kourt doesn’t feel that way, then I feel badly for her.”
She adds, “I could easily say, ‘Yeah, like how you didn’t check in on me about thebabyor whatever.’” For context, Khloé was leftdistraughtlast year after discovering that her now-ex-boyfriend Tristan Thompson hadsecretly had a child with another womanoutside of their relationship — all while they were preparing to welcome their second child via surrogate.
Kourtney then tells Khloé, “You like to deal with things on your own.” Khloé reiterates in response, “Yeah, I just don’t like to add shit to other people’s lives.”
Kourt then goes on to discuss their familial relationships a little more closely.
“I feel like we all have our times when we’re closer than others,” she says to Khloé. “Obviously, you and I have a chemistry and connection unlike any other.”
Going on to call Khloé her “soulmate,” Kourt says, “I think with Khloé and I, there’s no competition. We’re just genuinely obsessed with each other.”
Then Kourtney addresses the long-running theory thatKim and Khloéare the “new Kourtney and Khloé.” Getting extremely candid about the shift in dynamic among the trio, Kourt admits that she now feels “ganged up on” by the pair.
“We also, I think, vibed a lot on making fun of Kim,” Kourt says of herself and Khloé in a confessional. “And then I think when that was gone, Kim and Khloé were vibing. And then I was the one who got ganged up on.”
In response, a producer off camera tells Kourt, “People are saying that Kim and Khloé are the new Kourtney and Khloé.”
To that, Kourt says with a smile, “Well, Kim could never be as funny as me. Obviously.”
Kourtney then clarifies that despite the shifting dynamics, she and all of her sisters would “ride for each other until the end.”
Khloé goes on to suggest that she and Kourtney aren’t as close because they don’t spend as much “one-on-one” time together anymore.
“You and I aren’t doing one-on-one activities. You’re always with [Travis Barker] or your kids, which I get. I would be too,” she says.
And ultimately, Khloé proposes that she and Kourt have a “throwback day” where they hang out and pretend they’re “back in Miami” for old times' sake.
You can watch the latest episode ofThe KardashiansonHulunow or onDisney+internationally. The next episode will be available to watch June 1.
