Kim Kardashian Details Pre-‘SNL’ Relationship With Pete Davidson, Reacts to Kanye West Dating Chaney Jones

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Kim Kardashian Details Pre-‘SNL’ Relationship With Pete Davidson, Reacts to Kanye West Dating Chaney Jones

As Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson heat up, the Kardashians star is spilling new details about the beginning of their romance. While fans know the twosome started dating after the 41-year-old Hulu personality hosted Saturday Night Live in October 2021, she chatted with the 28-year-old comedian at the Met Gala the month prior. “His story is he had been asking around for my number a little bit," Kardashian said on the Tuesday, April 12, episode of the “Not Skinny But Not Fat” podcast. "I saw him at the Met and he knew I was hosting SNL but it wasn't announced yet. He came up to me and we were talking about SNL.” While Kardashian’s outfit (and gloves) made it too difficult for her to score Davidson’s number when he offered, they saw each other again filming the NBC show the following month. “He was the one cast member that — we were filming our show — he was the one cast member that wouldn’t sign off to be filmed, and he wasn’t there until the day of, so I didn’t see him all week during rehearsals, nothing,” Kardashian recalled to Dear Media’s Amanda Hirsch, adding that Davidson wasn’t at the afterparty because “he doesn’t really party.” [jwplayer 5RSl1zIr-zhNYySv2] She added: “I thought about it later, and I was like, ‘Damn he’s the only person that didn’t come.’ I thought about it after the fact.” The duo “privately hung out” and “chilled” before they were photographed at Knott’s Farm for a Halloween outing with friends, including Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker. Davidson marked the first person Kim has dated — or kissed — since her split from Kanye West. (The former couple share four kids: North, 8, Saint, 6, Chicago, 4, and Psalm, 2.) Since the beauty mogul filed for divorce in February 2021, the 44-year-old rapper has publicly slammed his former spouse and Davidson on social media. “I know who he is inside. And, I know what he means to say, and I know what he means to express and that's the beauty of knowing someone for so many years,” Kim said of West’s antics. “So it can be stressful and it can be a lot of things, but I think you just have to be positive when you have kids and you just have to look at the positive as hard as it is. It doesn't mean that it's easy, especially behind closed doors, but it means that I feel so empowered in the way that I react to things now, and the way that I choose to communicate back and at the end of the day, what is it going to do if people are fighting back and forth? Sometimes, you know, I'll say something, like, out of anger and then I'm just like, ‘Why did I do that?’” Kim added that it’s “super frustrating” when “fanbases get involved.” She explained: “He has such a supportive and amazing, strong fanbase and they're amazing. And because people aren't together anymore, doesn't mean that now those people have to not like me and my fanbase doesn't have to not like him. … There shouldn't be all this, like, external beef, like, it's hard enough already for families to go through a divorce.” Scroll through for the biggest takeaways from the podcast:

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Kim Has a Finsta

Kardashian admitted that she used to have a fake Instagram account where she posted “really wild s—t,” but now she uses BFF Lala Anthony’s fake account to “stalk” people, including “fan accounts,” “fashiony things” or “everyone you could possibly think of.”

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Her Pre-‘SNL’ Relationship With Pete

Kardashian revealed she and Davidson connected at the Met Gala in September 2021 before it was announced that she was hosting SNL. According to the Selfish author, he was curious about her status amid her split from West.

After she admitted she was “so nervous” about the gig, Davidson told Kardashian to take his number. “But I had gloves on and I couldn't get into my phone with the gloves,” she recalled, noting he walked away before she could give him her number. “So we never connected or anything until [SNL]."

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The 1st Kiss on ‘SNL’

“It was a stage kiss, but it was still a little zing,” she admitted when asked about Davidson's infamous "BDE" by Hirsch. “It wasn’t anything, like, a super crazy feeling I was just like, ‘Hmm,’ and then I was like, ‘Wow I really haven’t kissed anyone else in 10 years, so maybe I’m just like being stupid and it’s nothing. It’s just a stage kiss.'”

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Kim Didn’t Speak to Kanye for Months

Kardashian admitted that things were “off and on” between her and West after she filed for divorce.

“We went about eight months without even speaking to each other at the beginning of the divorce. And then, you know, we started talking again and I went to the Donda premiere,” she said of their post-split dynamic. “I mean, he would still see the kids and stuff, him and I just took a minute of not talking and I think in all relationships, it'll be like that.”

The Skims founder added that she hopes they are “coparenting goals” one day.

“I look back and my mom and dad went through their hard time and it took people a minute to readjust and I've seen it all before,” she said. “I think we just have a different kind of platform now, but, you know, it doesn't mean that, maybe, because he expressed himself in a certain way that he's not an amazing person and amazing friend. I do believe that we'll have that again. I'm always really hopeful and, you know, he's an amazing dad and I never really also judged the way someone wants to communicate, whether it's the way I would or not.”

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Where Things Stand With Kanye Now

“It's good when things are calm. We don't really communicate, but I think that's OK sometimes,” Kardashian said. “And I think that we will. We always will. That's just who I am. I spent a decade of my life with this person, and I just have so much love for him. So that'll never change, but it doesn't mean that they're the right one for you and that's OK too.”

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How Kim Feels About Chaney Jones Comparisons

Following his whirlwind romance with Julia Fox, West has been linked to Jones — who bears a striking resemblance (and sports similar fashion picks) to Kardashian.

“I just want him to be happy and, like, she seems like the sweetest — just whatever makes you happy, I don't care what it is,” the reality star told Hirsch about the comparisons. “I think that it'll reflect in your life and your work, everything and how you are as a parent. As long as he's happy, I genuinely just want that. Truly.”

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Whether Kourtney Is Jealous of How Close Kim and Khloe Have Gotten

“I feel like Khloé [Kardashian] and I are the new Kourtney and Khloé,” Kim said. “Growing up, it was always me and Kourtney, I couldn't do anything without her. … I do feel like our parenting styles [are] a little bit more similar. Everyone has just, like, a different style, but also, especially when Kourtney [got into] her relationship with Travis, I feel like they're just in their own worlds.”

When asked whether Kourtney is “jealous,” Kim said “not it all” because the Poosh founder is just in “her own world with Travis.”