‘The whole world hates you’ when you’re married to a Kardashian

Veteran NBA forward gets candid about what life is like when you are married to Kim Kardashian: ‘the whole world hates you.’

Being known as the guy who was married to Kim Kardashian for 72 days was Kris Humphries’ personal version of hell.

“I didn’t want to be Kris Humphries. It’s the craziest feeling in the world, not wanting to be yourself,” the veteran NBA forward detailed in The Players’ Tribune, published Tuesday.

“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.

Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries in happier times. Picture: Jen Lowery/Splash News

And even if I played that game, I felt like it would be disrespecting the game of basketball.”

Humphries, 34, proposed to Kardashian, 38, in May 2011 after about seven months of dating. The couple’s August nuptials were documented for E! cameras as part of a two-part TV special, as well as their transition as newlyweds in the “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” spin-off, “Kourtney and Kim Take New York.” Kardashian filed for divorce from Humphries in October of the same year, though it wouldn’t be finalised until 2013.

“Look, I should have known what I was getting into. I was definitely naive about how much my life was going to change. But the one thing that really bothers me is whenever people say that my marriage was fake,” he explained.

Kim Kardashian West attends the amfAR New York Gala 2019 at Cipriani Wall Street. Picture: Michael Loccisano/Wire Image

“There’s definitely a lot about that world that is not entirely real. But our actual relationship was 100 per cent real. When it was clear that it wasn’t working … what can I say? It sucked.”

Humphries added that “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.”

Humphries, who played for eight teams in a 13-year career, recalled one moment in particular after being mercilessly booed in Philadelphia.

Kim Kardashian surrounded by Los Angeles County Sheriff Deputies leaves the Stanley Mosk Courthouse after attending her divorce hearing from Kris Humphries. Picture: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images

“I thought to myself, ‘Why exactly are they booing me, though? Is it just because I’m That Guy from TV? Do they think I was trying to be famous? Is it because they think I disrespected the game of basketball?’” Humphries asked.

“The last one killed me, because all I’ve ever wanted to be known for was basketball.”

Humphries found himself in a dark place for about a year, dealing with “a lot of anxiety, especially in crowds.”

“I didn’t want to leave my home. You feel like … I don’t know … the whole world hates you, but they don’t even know why. They don’t even know you at all. They just recognise your face, and they’re on you,” he shared.

Humphries credits his inner circle for getting him through the trying times.

“Honestly, the game was the only thing that got me through it. The game and my family,” he said.

As for Kardashian, who married Kanye West in 2014, she said she wed Humphries because she was 30.

“At the time … I just thought, ‘Holy s — t, I’m 30 years old, I better get this together. I better get married,’” Kardashian said on “Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen” back in 2017.

This story originally appeared in the New York Post