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Earlier this week, it was reported that Kim Kardashian had filed for divorce from Kanye West.
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Their marriage hit a “turning point” after West said slavery “sounds like a choice”, a source told Us Weekly.
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The relationship was at a breaking point after West commented on abortions during a rally in 2020, the source said.
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Celebrity couple Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are no more after Kardashian filed for divorce earlier this week.
According to sources, the separation of the couple is ‘friendly’, it was apparently led by a series of controversial remarks by the 43-year-old rapper.
Their marriage allegedly hit a ‘turning point’ after West publicly made a controversial remark about slavery in 2018, an unnamed source told Us Weekly.
West was on the receiving end of the setback in 2018 after suggesting that 400 years of slavery ‘sounds like a choice’ during a TMZ interview.
“They went through a very rough spot in the aftermath,” the source told Us Weekly. “Kim was completely killed by Kanye’s ridiculous and outrageous comments. It cost a lot to move past that.”
While the couple eventually recovered from the effects of this event, West’s comments against abortion reportedly marked the beginning of the end of their marriage.
The marriage reached a breaking point when the rapper discussed aborting their daughter North during a campaign for his failed presidency, the source said.
“I almost killed my daughter … So even if my wife divorced me after this speech, she brought North into the world, even when I did not want to,” he said in 2020. She got up and she protected that child. ‘
Kardashian was reportedly dissatisfied with this revelation.
“There was no stopping Kim from returning after that. She could erase things he had said earlier for shock value, but she was over her head as soon as he brought their children into it,” the source told Us. Weekly.
West believes his unsuccessful presidency contributed to the divorce, a source told People.
“He thinks the presidency was the straw that broke the camel’s back,” the source said. “Before that, there was hope. After that, there was nothing. It cost him his marriage. ‘
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