In a personal essay about his life in The Player’s Tribune, he wrote about his 2011 marriage. Humphries and Kim Kardashian were married in 2011 in a widely televised ceremony and it came as a shock when 72 days later, the two got divorced.
Humphries also opened up on how he feels when he hears people say that his marriage to the reality TV star was fake. He says:
“The irony of my career is that I finally figured out what kind of player I was when I got to the Nets. I was going to try to grab 10 boards a game and shut up. I wasn’t The Guy. I was a grinder. I felt like I knew who I was, finally. And then I met a girl who happened to be really famous, and I got married, and…. Damn.
“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.”
Humphries went on to speak on how real his relationship with Kim Kardashian was.
“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.”
The exes have since both moved on from that failed marriage as Kardashian is now married to rap star Kanye West with whom she has three children with a fourth on the way.
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