Maralee Nichols close down a social media consumer’s accusations concerning the nature of her courting with ex Tristan Thompson.
“I was definitely not a one night stand,” Nichols, 32, wrote in a since-deleted Instagram touch upon Tuesday, December 19, according to a screenshot by means of Web page Six. “That’s a false and defamatory statement you’re making about me.”
Nichols made headlines in December 2021 when she sued Thompson, 32, for kid improve and stated that he fathered her unborn child. Nichols printed that they conceived their handiest kid in combination that March, again when he was once in a public courting with now-ex Khloé Kardashian. (Thompson by no means publicly addressed the character of his courting with Nichols.)
Kardashian, 39, discovered concerning the scandal in the course of the information only one month after she and the NBA celebrity did an embryo switch with a surrogate. (Kardashian and Thompson proportion daughter True, 5, and son Tatum, 16 months. He additionally stocks son Prince, 6, with ex Jordan Craig.)
“I find out what Tristan is doing with the rest of the world. A courtesy would be not doing it,” Kardashian stated all through a June episode of The Kardashians. “But fine, if you do it, you are not even going to give me a f–king heads-up before the rest of the world? It is just an additional slap in my face. It is humiliating. I am embarrassed. I would prefer to be alone than to be around people.”
She added on the time: “I am replaying every event, every grand gesture, every trip [and] every date. All of that was a lie. How were you able to not say something? I feel just not really in my own body.”
All the way through Nichols’ lawsuit, Thompson asserted that he didn't father her child. After taking part in a DNA take a look at, Thompson showed in January 2022 that Theo — Nichols gave beginning to a toddler boy the former December — was once his son.
After Nichols welcomed Theo, she asked greater than $47,000 a month in kid improve from Thompson. Us Weekly showed in August 2022 that Thompson “is paying, and has paid, child support to Ms. Nichols retroactive to the date she delivered the child.”
Not up to twelve months after Theo’s arrival, Kardashian and Thompson — who cut up in overdue 2021 after his paternity scandal — welcomed child No. 2 by means of surrogate in July 2022. Since then, Kardashian has asserted that she has no plans to reconcile with the Los Angeles Lakers athlete. They're all in favour of coparenting True and Tatum.
Thompson has additionally since apologized for his movements. “I am in a place now where I can own up to the mistakes I’ve made,” he stated in a November episode of The Kardashians.