Kim Kardashian’s ex-best friend Larsa Pippen says Kanye West was behind their rift

Kim Kardashian and Larsa Pippen were best friends for years until they mysteriously unfollowed each other this year. Now she’s revealed why.

Kim Kardashian West’s ex best friend Larsa Pippen has broken her silence on her former friendship with the Kardashians.

Larsa, 46, used to be inseparable with reality TV’s first family, but at some point this year they had a falling out and unfollowed each other on social media.

While many thought rumours of Larsa hooking up with Khloe Kardashian’s on-again-off-again boyfriend Tristan Thompson were to blame, Larsa claimed it was actually Kanye West who was responsible for the rift.

“I just feel like Kanye was in a place where he really didn’t trust anyone with Kim, so I feel like I was the person that was like, ‘Oh, don’t be so close to her because you’re so close to her’, that kinda had something to do with it,” Larsa explained on Monday’s episode of the Hollywood Raw podcast.

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Larsa Pippen and Kim Kardashian.

“I don’t want to be the trouble in your relationship. If your husband feels threatened by my relationship with you then I don’t want to be that person. I got my own s**t.”

Larsa said she wanted West, 43, to feel “really comfortable, really secure” without her in their lives but maintained she did absolutely nothing to betray the famous friendship.

“I didn’t feel any type of way,” she said of losing her best friends.

Larsa claims Kanye “brainwashed” Kim and the whole family. Picture: Getty

“‘Do what’s best for your family. I love you, you and I are best friends, we’ve been through everything together. I would never do anything to jeopardise our relationship. If you have to unfollow me to make your home a better place then do it.’”

Larsa admitted that her ex-husband, retired NBA star Scottie Pippen, didn’t approve of her friendship with the famous family either and said he didn’t want their children hanging out with the youngest Kardashian-Jenner members.

But Larsa said she didn’t care what he thought.

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Kourtney Kardashian and Larsa Pippen.

Larsa also claimed she and the Jesus Walks rapper “always had a great relationship” and revealed she became his “go-to person to call when he wasn’t happy with x, y and z.”

She eventually blocked his number because she couldn’t handle the phone calls at all hours of the night, which she claims “really upset him.”

“If Kanye feels like Kim and him are better without me then let them be without me,” she said.

“Do I look like I’m suffering? Was it hurtful? Yes. This shall pass, too.”

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Larsa flat out denied the rumours that she hooked up with Thompson, who shares daughter True with Khloe, saying, “I would never do that,” but realised she couldn’t beat Kanye’s influence with the family.

“He has literally brainwashed the whole family into thinking that like I don’t even know what,” she said. “I don’t even know.”

She said all of the women “started to ride (Kanye’s) wave.”

“If you’re that easily swayed like the wind, do I really give a f**k?” she asked, rhetorically.

Larsa also denied the rumours that she tried to hook up with Kylie Jenner’s ex-boyfriend, Travis Scott, and alleged Scott was the one who called Kylie and claimed she was hitting on him.

“That never happened,” Larsa said. “That never freaking happened. Is he delusional? I would never in a billion years do that.”

Reps for the Kardashians and West didn’t immediately return a request for comment.

This story originally appeared in the New York Post and has been reproduced here with permission