“It’s 100 percent on me, but I want to say I’m sorry and I feel bad about it,” he told Kylie. “The fact that I came with my poor decisions and being a f–king idiot and just being young and stupid, I just wanted to say I’m sorry again for that.”
Kylie was receptive to his apology. Although she remains protective of her older sister, the Khy founder recognized how all parties have grown since the fallout.
“Thank you for saying that,” she shared. “I appreciate that. I think I was so co-dependent with Jordyn that I could have never imagined my life without her. We would have probably still been living together. I think she needed to grow without me, I needed to grow without her.”
And the 26-year-old made it clear that she isn’t holding it against her former BFF, noting, “Jordyn and I are cool. We still talk and catch up. We’re good.” (Indeed, the pair later reunited for a sushi dinner in Los Angeles in July, their first public outing since the scandal.)
Tristan, 32, additionally asked Kylie to pass on his peace offering to Jordyn, 26.
“Let her know I apologize for, you know, whatever,” the basketball player said. “She went through a lot during that time too, probably gave her a lot of flak, so I’m the reason why that relationship went a different direction.”
Kylie admitted that Tristan has done some “dumb ass s–t” and doesn’t understand why he cheated on Khloe multiple times, including his tryst with Maralee Nichols that led to a paternity scandal over their baby boy Theo in December 2021.
“You have such a good heart and good energy, and to know you is to love you,” she told Tristan. “So, it is confusing.”
Going forward, Kylie wants to move past the drama: “It’s just hard to forgive the things that you did to Khloe, but I want to move on from that.”
Tristan ultimately attributed his “selfish” behavior to “not really understanding the value of good people.”
“I’m not in a position to ask for anything,” he noted. “The only thing I can do is continue to just prove myself and be who I am. Then, I think over time, it’s maybe not forgiveness, maybe moreso try to gain everyone’s trust back. At the end of the day, you want your family to be comfortable around you. You never want someone to look at you or side eye or question your character or integrity as a human being.”
In fact, Tristan—who is also dad to son Prince, 6, with ex Jordan Craig—said that fatherhood is his biggest motivation to make amends over his past mistakes.
“I never want my daughter to go to school and talk so great about me and then a little kid comes and says, ‘Well your dad is like this, this and this,'” he explained. “She’ll be embarrassed and that will break my heart, because she views me in such a high regard. You want to just be a good influence and role model for them so they can be proud of you.”
To look back on Kylie and Jordyn’s friendship evolution over the past decade, read on.
2012
Kylie Jenner and Jordyn Woods met when they were in eighth grade through their mutual friend Jaden Smith.
“One day I got a phone call from one of my friends and they were like, ‘Yeah, come over to Kylie’s house. We all wanna hang out,'” Woods explained in a Buzzfeed interview.
Jenner continued telling their middle school meet-cute story, saying, “And she put her name in my phone and we just got closer and closer throughout the years and realized all we need is each other. Now we are our only friends!”
While Jenner was a cast member on one of TV’s most popular reality shows from the age of 10, the duo acted just like any other teenagers would.
“We used to Segway everywhere,” Jenner revealed. “I mean everywhere when we didn’t have our license. Like we would Segway outside the community to, like, miles and miles to the mall.”
Woods soon became an unofficial member of the Kardashian family and part of their trusted inner circle, even landing invites to events such as Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s 2014 wedding and Khloe Kardashian’s 2019 baby shower.
May 2017
Jenner and Woods’ bond was so solid that the pair held a commitment ceremony during their tripe to Peru that aired on E!’s Life of Kylie.
The purpose of the event, Jenner explained, was to demonstrate that their connection extended far beyond friendship.
“I want people to know we’re more than that,” she noted. “She’s my girlfriend. I care for her like I care for my girlfriend.”
During their ceremony, Woods vowed “to always be there” for Kylie, “through thick and thin.” In turn, Jenner pledged “to encourage you, inspire you, love you, through all the good and bad times.”
August 2017
When Jenner landed her own spin-off, she immediately asked Woods to film with her. But the model was hesitant to step in front of the cameras for Life of Kylie.
“I didn’t want to do the show at first,” Woods told Refinery29 at the time. “But Kylie and I are a big part of each other’s lives, so if it’s about her life, I’m a key player, so I’m not gonna just not come around. I figured, being with her all the time is already my life, so we might as well do it.
While the experienced “turned out to be really fun,” Woods did admit on Life With Kylie that her friendship with the star could sometimes be “draining.”
“I actually feel like I’m in a full relationship with Kylie,” she explained. “There are different types of relationships—we’re definitely in one. Not necessarily sexual, but definitely emotional. It’s draining sometimes. I don’t want to say she’s a needy girlfriend but…”
