This sort of just came out of nowhere.
I haven’t heard Kris Humphries name mentioned in a minute, but he went on the Player’s Tribune today to write about his time with Kim Kardashian. I believe he is also announcing his retirement, but I thought he was already retired.
Here is what he had to say.
Look, I should have known what I was getting into. I was definitely naive about how much my life was going to change. But the one thing that really bothers me is whenever people say that my marriage was fake.
There’s definitely a lot about that world that is not entirely real. But our actual relationship was 100% real. When it was clear that it wasn’t working … what can I say? It sucked. It’s never easy to go through the embarrassment of something like that — with your friends, with your family…. But when it plays out so publicly, in front of the world, it’s a whole other level. It was brutal.
I didn’t know how to handle it, because I never thought I was going to be famous in that way. I remember having this moment when I was getting booed so hard in Philly, and I thought to myself, “Why exactly are they booing me, though? Is it just because I’m That Guy from TV? Do they think I was trying to be famous? Is it because they think I disrespected the game of basketball?”
The last one killed me, because all I’ve ever wanted to be known for was basketball.
My whole life, I was a really confident, happy person. But nothing can prepare you for the feeling of walking down the street, or being anywhere, really — the grocery store, the gas station — and having people literally running up on you and trying to film you, trying to grab you, saying God knows what.
That’s not natural. That’s not supposed to be real life.
There were so many times when I was in a gas station just buying a water or something, and the cashier would give me a look, and I could just feel it coming.
“Hey, are you … That Guy?”
And I’d say, “Ha! Nah, I just look like him.”
Or I’d say, “Nah, I’m Blake Griffin. People get us confused.”
Seems like some of this stuff still bothers him.
With that being said here is a cool Prince story.
I know most people probably think I grew up in Los Angeles or something, but I actually grew up on a lake in Minnesota, about 10 minutes away from Paisley Park. So we’d see the legend around all the time. Honest to God, I used to go to the grocery store with my dad, and there’d be this stretch limo quadruple-parked right in front of the store. I’d always see this little kid walking around the cereal aisle wearing a purple suit with like 10 bodyguards.
Like all the time.
Finally, one day I said, “Dad, who’s that kid?”
And my dad said, “What are you talking about?
I said, “That kid over there with the Cap’n Crunch.”
And he said, “What? That’s Prince.”
Flip the page for vids-pics of him and Kim Kardashian. Plus him getting booed by Kardashian fans.