Khloé Kardashian turned to the gym as a form of therapy after being betrayed by her therapist.
The “Kardashians” star revealed she started working through her mental health struggles with exercise after her former counselor allegedly breached doctor-patient privilege amid her divorce from Lamar Odom.
“I remember I was going to therapy and the next thing I knew, something private I told my therapist was on a tabloid,” she told Bustle in an interview published Tuesday.
“And I knew that my therapist disclosed this information to a tabloid because there’s no way this could have gotten out there,” she continued.
Kardashian, 40, did not disclose exactly what her therapist leaked about her marriage to the former NBA star, 45, which ended in 2013 due to infidelity and his battle with addiction.
Although the traumatic experience kickstarted her love for fitness, it ruined the reality star’s relationship with therapy for nearly a decade.
“I stopped going to therapy and started going to the gym,” she explained. “I needed a release, but I did not trust anybody else anymore. And the place that I felt the safest was the gym.”
Kardashian called the experience “very jarring and sort of unbelievable” and insisted “there’s not a chance in the world that it came from anywhere else.”
The Hulu personality refused to seek help for years as a result of the betrayal until her older sister Kim Kardashian finally convinced her to give it another shot.
“I started when I was 39,” Khloé said, noting that her new doctor is “really lovely.”
“I really like her. It’s actually Kim’s therapist,” she shared. “Kim was really adamant. I was like, ‘I’ll do this for you.’ I dragged my feet, and then I was like, ‘Wow, OK, this is good. I needed this.’”
It turned out the “Revenge Body” alum had a lot to unpack after keeping things bottled up for years.
“My therapist was like, ‘I think you should come three days a week.’ [Laughs.] She was like, ‘You really need to be here,’” she remembered. “It all worked out.”
With the help of her therapist, Khloé said her 40s have been everything she hoped they would be.
“When you’re young, you think 40 is so old, and now I’m like, ‘Wait — I feel so good!’” she said. “I am in the best shape of my life. I’m doing new career stuff. I’ve only been 40 for about six months, but it’s the absolute best.”
The soon-to-be podcast host said she simply doesn’t “give a s–t” about some of the things that used to stress her out.
“Intentionally, at 39, I tried to close a lot of chapters,” she explained. “I called it ‘shedding’ — shedding this decade of my 30s and this energy I wanted to leave behind.
“There are so many new things that I’m doing in my first year of 40 that I know for a fact my 40s and on are going to be f–king incredible.”
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