Kim Kardashian Makes Rare Comments About First Divorce At 21

Kim Kardashian is sharing a rare insight into her marriage to first husband Damon Thomas.

On Thursday’s episode of “The Kardashians,” the Skimms founder and reality TV personality made a brief, but telling, allusion to Thomas, recalling how her sister Khloé Kardashian came to her aid when the pair split.

“When Khloé was maybe 4 or 5 years old, she got this piggy bank that was, like, as tall as us, and it was like a Coke bottle,” Kim Kardashian explained. “We would put so much money in it, and when I was getting my first divorce, I moved out and had no money.”

The total amount inside the piggy bank turned out to be around $6,000 ― just enough, Kim Kardashian says, “to get a downpayment on my apartment.”

Kim Kardashian was 19 years old when she wed Thomas, a music producer who has collaborated with Mary J. Blige, Justin Timberlake and other A-list stars. The couple were married from 2000 to 2003.

See Kim Kardashian talk about Damon Thomas below.

In the 22 years since the split, Kim Kardashian has made few public statements about Thomas. She did, however, make an eyebrow-raising claim about their Las Vegas nuptials, noting on “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” in 2018: “I did ecstasy once, and I got married.”

Thomas, however, later refuted his ex-wife’s remark, calling it “irresponsible.”

“Because it happened in the past, you can try to sweep it under the rug, but you don’t stay married to somebody or be with somebody for four to five years and it’s just based off of you getting high off of ecstasy,” he told Entertainment Tonight in 2022. “That doesn’t make any sense at all.”

“I’ve been very responsible in not talking what that marriage was or what it meant to me,” he added.

As for Kim Kardashian, however, she made a point of repaying Khloé Kardashian when she presented her sister with a replica of that Coke-shaped piggy bag ― filled with cash, no less ― at her 40th birthday last year.

“She gave me her life savings at, like, 21 years old,” she said. “She couldn’t believe I remembered the Coke bottle, and I was like: ‘How could I not?’”