Inside Kris Humphries' Private World Years After Kim Kardashian Split (2025)

While it’s been nearly 14 years since Kim Kardashian wed Kris Humphries and then famously filed for divorce 72 days later, their brief union has recently re-entered the spotlight.

Though The Kardashians star and the former basketball player split in 2011, their divorce wasn’t finalized until two years later. And even though Kardashian said she paid for most of her emerald-cut engagement ring from Humphries, she noted she still had to give him the massive rock as part of their divorce settlement.

"I didn’t keep that," she revealed on the March 13 episode of The Kardashians. “I was pregnant with North, still married to him, and in order to divorce him, he said I had to give him the ring in my divorce—that I bought, he contributed a fifth.” (E! News reached out to Humphries for comment but didn’t hear back).

The ring was later auctioned off, with a spokesperson for Christie’s Auction House confirming to E! News in 2013 that it sold or $749,000.

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By 2013, Kardashian was dating Kanye West, and they were expecting their daughter North West. (The pair, who wed in 2014, also share kids Saint West, Chicago West and Psalm West).

And Kardashian, whose divorce from West was finalized in 2022, noted she "would’ve loved a collection” of her past rings, with her first marriage to Damon Thomas also officially ending four years after they eloped in Las Vegas in 2000.

If you’re having trouble keeping up with all the details of Kardashian and Humphries’ whirlwind romance and split, the two began dating near the end of 2010 and got engaged months later in May 2011. They tied the knot that August at a private estate in Montecito, Calif., with the bride wearing a custom Vera Wang gown and the ceremony featured on the E! special Kim's Fairytale Wedding: A Kardashian Event.

Except it wasn’t a fairy tale. At the wedding rehearsal, Kardashian’s mom Kris Jenner even offered to help her get out of walking down the aisle.

"What you said to me is, 'Go! I’m going to put you in a car. No one will find you. Just leave, and I’ll handle it,'" the SKIMS mogul recalled of that night during the 2021 Keeping Up With the Kardashians reunion. "And I thought, 'OK, we’re filming this for a TV show. If I leave, I'm going to be known as the runaway bride forever and it's gonna be a huge joke, and I think I just have cold feet.'"

Kardashian said she felt pressure to go through with the televised wedding as she didn’t want to let people down—though she insists, despite Humphries’ request for an annulment citing “fraud,” their decision to tie the knot in the first place wasn’t some "fake" publicity stunt (their union was ultimately dissolved through divorce).

Still, it wasn’t long before she realized she shouldn’t have said "I do."

"We get to Italy for our honeymoon, and I was like, 'F--k, I think I made the wrong decision,'" Kardashian continued. And then when they moved in together in New York, she added, she was "miserable."

However, she admits she didn’t handle the split the best way and that she owes her ex an apology.

"I was so nervous to break up with someone. I handled it totally the wrong way," the 44-year-old shared. "I fully broke up with him in the worst way, and I just didn’t know how to deal. I learned so much from it."

And ultimately, Kardashian suggested it wasn’t one big thing that led to her divorce from Humphries but rather that they simply didn’t know each other that well.

"I think obviously when people first meet and they fall in love, everything is great at the beginning," she told Oprah Winfrey in 2012. "And for me, I didn’t spend more than I think a full week with my ex before we got married. We never lived together."

Once they did live together, she continued, she just knew "he was not the one."

For his part, Humphries has also stated that their marriage, while short, was real—as were the difficulties of dealing with all the public attention.

"One thing that really bothers me is whenever people say that my marriage was fake," he wrote in a 2019 essay for The Players’ Tribune announcing his retirement from the NBA. "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."

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So brutal that Humphries noted he “was in a dark place” for about a year in which he didn’t want to leave his home and it felt like “the whole world hates you.”

"I didn’t want to be Kris Humphries," the former forward wrote. "It’s the craziest feeling in the world, not wanting to be yourself. And I didn’t even want to say anything to defend myself, because it felt like I couldn’t win. You can’t go up against the tabloids. You can’t go up against that machine. There’s no point."

And while Humphries acknowledged “most people will always see me as That F****** Guy from TV,” he expressed his hope for them to still remember his contribution to the game.

“Because that’s all I ever wanted to be known for,” he added. “Even now, since I’ve stepped away from the game, I’m trying to stay under the radar and work on a new phase of my life.”

When he’s not working, Humphries enjoys traveling and spending time with his loved ones out on the water (his Instagram features photos of him boating in East Hampton, N.Y.; Miami, Fla.; Malibu, Calif., and Minnesota’s Lake Minnetonka).

He’s also found a new sport that he loves: Pickleball.

“During COVID, it was just like people were looking for things to do,” the 40-year-old explained to Pickleballtv in November 2024. “A friend who actually plays a lot of volleyball was getting into pickleball. So he just brought me and tried it out and it was fun. You know, I’d played a little bit of tennis in 7th and 8th grade but nothing on a high level. Pickleball’s a lot of fun, just competitive and exciting once I got past the fact that it’s a wiffle ball.”

And while his relationship status is unknown, it’s clear his two pups Ricardo and Rocky have his heart.

As for where the Kardashians and Jenners stand in their love lives, keep reading to keep up.

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