Kris Jenner Says She Asked ESPN to Hire Khloe’s Ex Tristan Thompson: ‘When It’s That Easy, It’s Fun for Me’

Kris Jenner is the ultimate mamagera.

In Thursday’s episode The KardashiansThe 67-year-old reality TV mogul revealed that she had a hand in getting her daughter Khloé Kardashian’s ex Tristan Thompson a gig as a commentator on ESPN.

Jenner praised Thompson, 32, for “working this beat” with Kardashian, 39, as the former parents to their children, True, 5, and Tatum, who was born in August 2022. “Wherever he’s needed, he runs kids around, he’s running errands,” Jenner said of the NBA player during the episode.

Thompson told Jenner, “Everything was great. You know, ESPN, obviously, I appreciate you helping make this all happen,” during the episode.

Currently a player on the Cleveland Cavaliers roster, Thompson said his ex’s mother “made a few calls and it happened,” adding that she “mastered” the “art of negotiation” during the conversation.

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Jenner explained, “I was able to reach out to Disney and ABC and express how talented I thought Tristan was and how they would benefit from him being part of the ESPN team.”

Kris Jenner, Khloe Kardashian, Tristan Thompson. Getty (3)

What’s more, Jenner’s pull with the network landed Thompson the gig almost immediately. “This is a dream. The fact that we were able to have that call on Friday and they asked you if you could start on Monday, that never happens to anybody,” Jenner said.

The mother of six added: “When it’s that easy, it’s fun for me. It’s so rewarding for me.”

Viewers also saw an emotional conversation about the athlete’s younger brother Amari Thompson. between Thompson and Kardashian on Thursday’s episode.

As the Good American founder explained in the episode, 17-year-old Amari lives with a severe form of epilepsy called Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome (LGS), which leaves him wheelchair-bound and requiring 24-hour support.

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After Tristan and Amari’s mom Andrea died in January, Tristan became his brother’s legal guardian. Kardashian was also involved in the day-to-day care of the teenager, especially while he and Tristan lived with her amid Tristan’s home renovations.

Tristan Thompson and Khloe Kardashian at the Klutch Sports Group “More Than A Game” Dinner Hosted by Remy Martin at Beauty & Essex on February 17, 2018 in Los Angeles, California.

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“There are no rules of the game, no rule book,” the mother of two said in a confessional about Amara’s condition. “We don’t know what the hell we’re doing. And I say ‘we’ because I’m on top of all the medical stuff for Amari.”

Although it was a challenging experience for her, Kardashian admitted that she felt somewhat prepared to take on this housekeeper role after her ex-husband Lamar’s near-fatal overdose in a Las Vegas brothel in 2015.

She told Thompson, “For my ex-husband, when he was in a coma, some doctors said, ‘He can’t hear, he has brain damage.’ I played music that I knew he liked and I would always talk to him. And then when he could talk, he’d say, ‘I heard everything he had to say, I’d try to talk to you,’ and I was like, ‘I knew it! ‘ So who knows how much Amari knows?”

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Mother Andrea Thompson, NBA player Tristan Thompson and brother Amari Thompson attend the Amari Thompson Soiree in Support of Epilepsy Toronto at The Globe and Mail Center on August 9, 2018 in Toronto, Canada. George Pimentel/Getty

Since Andrea was Amari’s primary caregiver, Tristan filed for sole legal custody of his younger brother on Sept. 8, claiming that their father, Trevor Thompson, had been absent from Amari’s life since 2014 and that Tristan was Amari’s closest living family member . A few weeks later, he was granted temporary custody of Amari.

The two are now living together in a house in Hidden Hills, after a brief stint at Kardashian’s home after Tristan’s house was damaged by extreme weather.

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