Kim Kardashian Denies Hooking Up With Travis Barker

"I have been friends with him, but never in that way," the reality television star and pubic hair panty saleswoman told Alex Cooper.

By Audra Heinrichs | October 15, 2025 | 10:32am

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Kim Kardashian Denies Hooking Up With Travis Barker

It was inevitable that Kim Kardashian would one day join Alex Cooper for another round of Cooper’s patented inane, publicist-approved questioning that we all know and love. And the latest episode of Call Her Daddy is certainly no exception.

In the conversation, the reality television star and pubic hair panty saleswoman offered minimal, “like”-laden answers about a Tom Brady romance (“Oh, my God. I’m not going to answer.”); what it was like living with ex-husband, Kanye “Ye” West (“I didn’t know what you’re going to get when you wake up and that’s a really unsettling feeling.”); and North West‘s perspective on her love life (“‘Mom, you’ve got to get remarried. You’re getting too old and no one is gonna deal with this.'”). Most importantly, though, Kardashian addressed all the speculation as to whether or not she and Travis Barker (aka her sister’s husband) were ever more than just friends.

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For years, theories about Kardashian and Barker have abounded due in part to early aughts tabloid culture (which frequently saw the pair photographed together), and Barker’s own recollections in his 2016 memoir, Can I Say: Living Large, Cheating Death, and Drums, Drums, Drums. In it, he confessed he harbored a longtime crush on his future sister-in-law while dating her friend and then-employer, Paris Hilton. Of Kardashian, Barker wrote that Kardashian was “fucking hot” and “eye candy.” It gets worse. He further added: “You might think I would be doing the worst things with this girl because of her [sex] tapes, but it was the exact opposite of any other encounter I’ve had with a woman: with Kim, I wanted to be nothing but a gentleman to her. It was so weird.” Swoon!

According to Kardashian, all of that flattery went unconsummated.

“No, I never have,” Kardashian told Cooper when asked if she’d ever hooked up with Barker. “And that really sucks that that has gone on. But he dated Paris and we were all friends, and we’d all hang out, and when I was with Paris, we’d be on the road and go to their tour in Amsterdam.”

She added: “So I have been friends with him, but never in that way. And never hooked up with him.”

Frankly, that’s not the story Barker’s ex-wife, Shanna Moakler, has told all these years. In January 2024, Moakler went on Bunnie XO’s podcast, Dumb Blonde, and claimed that she once caught Kardashian and Barker making plans to have sex at “her sister’s house.” Which sister went cruelly unspecified, but if it was Kourtney…yikes.

“They were trying to meet up at her sister’s house to fuck,” Moakler said of alleged text exchanges she found on Barker’s phone. When Moakler showed the texts to Barker, he “deleted them.” Then, when she called Kardashian to confront her, she apparently denied the affair with the following alibi: “I don’t like white guys.”

“I was like, ‘You’ll fuck anyone to be famous,’” Moakler recalled. “Travis and I never really recovered from that. I felt stupid.”

Of course, Kardashian is going to deny anything weird might’ve happened between her and her now-brother-in-law. Wouldn’t you??? That said, I still believe Moakler.

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