Kanye West and Kim Kardashian West are reportedly preparing to end their six-year marriage.
According to a source the couple are done with the marriage and are now at the settlement talks. “They are keeping it low-key but they are done, they are now at the settlement talks stage.”
A source told People, a US-based magazine, that Kanye “knows that she’s [Kim] done. She has had enough and she told him that she wants some space to figure out her future.”
This would be Kim’s third divorce and according to reports Kim has hired high-profile attorney Laura Wasser, to be her lawyer. Wasser was also Kim’s lawyer when she divorced former NBA player Kris Humphries after 72 days of marriage.
The powerful LA divorce lawyer is well-known to advocate for her clients to negotiate and agree on a confidential settlement before any divorce papers are filed in court, since, LA divorces are more public than in New York, this ensures that more of the proceedings remain secret.
That notwithstanding, the couple, who tied the knot in 2014, has hit several rough patches in recent years.
In July 2020, Kanye tweeted that he had been considering divorcing Kim since 2018, when she paired up with Meek Mill to work on criminal justice reform.
“I’ve been trying to get divorced since Kim met with Meek at the Warldolf for ‘prison reform,'”
In December, an anonymous source told ENews that Kim and Kanye weren’t spending much physical time together and were “focused on the things that are important to them.”
Kim was focused on studying the law and working on social justice issues and has helped commute the sentences of several people, including Momolu Stewart and Alice Marie Johnson. Kanye also spent much of the last year running for president as a third-party candidate.
The source also mentioned that they’re “still a family” and “come together” for their kids — North West, Saint West, Chicago West, and Psalm West.
Months earlier, the rapper said in an emotional anti-abortion rant at his first political rally that he and his wife, Kim Kardashian West, had considered an abortion when she was pregnant with their first child and proceeded to share a series of since-deleted tweets about his wife’s family.
Kim broke her silence days later in a statement she released on Instagram, telling her followers that her husband has bipolar disorder.
“Anyone who has this or has a loved one in their life who does knows how incredibly complicated and painful it is to understand,” she wrote, explaining that she refrained from speaking out to protect her family’s privacy. Kim decided to speak out because of “the stigma and misconceptions about mental health.”
Kanye later apologized to Kim via Twitter, saying he “did not cover her like she has covered me.”
“I would like to apologize to my wife Kim for going public with something that was a private matter,” the Yeezy designer wrote. “To Kim, I want to say I know I hurt you. Please forgive me. Thank you for always being there for me.”
Meanwhile, representatives for Kanye and Kim didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.
In May 2019, Kardashian and West renewed their vows shortly after welcoming their fourth child, Psalm.
While the couple opted not to show the intimate ceremony on ‘Keeping Up With The Kardashian’, Kardashian read part of her vows to their son Saint on the series: “You are my husband. You are my best friend. My biggest believer and my one true love.”
