Tristan Thompson simply cannot stay out of his own way when it comes to having unprotected sex with other women and doing so while in a relationship with Khloe Kardashian.
Just three days into the new year and he is already making the wrong type of news involving another woman. Thompson issued a letter of apology to Khloe Kardashian, and “everyone I’ve hurt or disappointed ” after a paternity test confirmed he fathered Maralee Nichols’ child.
Nichols filed a lawsuit against Thompson in California, saying he is the father of her newborn son. In court docs, Thompson has said they had sex on his birthday in March 2021 during a “hook up.”
“Today, paternity test results reveal that I fathered a child with Maralee Nichols,” wrote the NBA star on his Instagram Story on Monday, Jan. 3.
Thompson says, “I take full responsibility for my actions. Now that paternity has been established I look forward to amicably raising our son. I sincerely apologize to everyone I’ve hurt or disappointed throughout this ordeal both publicly and privately.”
“Khloe, you don’t deserve this,” Thompson wrote. “You don’t deserve the heartache and humiliation I have caused you. You don’t deserve the way I have treated you over the years. My actions certainly have not lined up with the way I view you.”
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He added, “I have the utmost respect and love for you. Regardless of what you may think. Again, I am so incredibly sorry.”
Kardashian and Thompson share 3-year-old daughter.
“[Thompson] told me he was single and co-parenting. I would never have gotten involved with Tristan if I thought he was in a relationship,” Nichols said in a statement to E! News last month. “I saw Tristan in March 2021 around his birthday. He told me he had wanted to see me.”
She continued, “I agreed to meet him in Houston at a private party on March 12… Houston was one of many nights we spent together. Soon after his birthday weekend in Houston, Tristan invited me to visit him in Boston.”
The Sacramento Kings big man said that “the only time that I had sexual intercourse” with Nichols last year was in March 2021 in Houston, Texas, per court filings obtained by E! News. “I specifically remember having sexual intercourse with [her] in March because it was my birthday,” he said. “[She] and I attended a party together at a hotel in Houston. [She] had called me and wanted to be with me on my birthday.”
Thompson previously cheated on Kardashian in 2018 while she was pregnant and again in 2019 with Kylie Jenner’s then-BFF, Jordyn Woods.
