Bethenny Frankel is keeping up with Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s latest feud.
The self-proclaimed custody “expert” issued legal advice to the Skims creator after the rapper included their 11-year-old daughter, North West, in an “alarming” song featuring embattled Sean “Diddy” Combs.
After Kanye dropped “Lonely Roads Still Go to Sunshine” in a since-deleted X post Saturday, Frankel shared her thoughts via Instagram “as someone who has been through a horrific, decade-long divorce on a two-year marriage and got primary custody and no child support that I had to pay.”
While preparing a fruit salad Sunday, the former “Real Housewives of New York City” star, 54, pointed out, “Kim is texting Kanye, who is not a rational person, and she’s texting him as if he’s a rational person.
“She should not be speaking to him at all. She should be speaking to him by proxy,” she continued. “Someone else should be the one interacting with him because, again, he’s not rational. He’s sharing her texts, and that’s a violation.”
Kanye, 47, posted screenshots over the weekend of text messages he had received from Kardashian, 44, arguing over her trademarking their preteen’s name.
“When she’s 18, [the trademark] goes to her. So stop,” the reality star wrote. “I sent paperwork over so she wouldn’t be in the Diddy song to protect her.”
Ye replied, “Amend it or I’m going to war. And neither of us will recover from the public fallout. You’re going to have to kill me.”
He ended up releasing the song anyway, writing via X on Sunday that men “make the final decisions.”
Frankel advised Kardashian not to worry about the trademark and focus on getting legal “decision-making” rights instead.
She called this the “most crucial” aspect of a divorce because “God forbid something happens” resulting in “big-ticket decisions” being made in medical, educational and religious areas.
Frankel explained that a “sane, rational, non-punitive party [needs] to be making those decisions.”
She added, “If Kim has decision making, it’s irrational whether or not she has the trademark for her daughter … because a judge doesn’t care about trademarks as much.”
The former Bravolebrity noted that judges dealing with custody matters are “always focused on what is in the best interest of the child, even if their agreement says something otherwise.”
She concluded, “Judges are human beings. They are not only about the letter of the law when it comes to the interest of the child.”
Frankel shared instances from her own court battle with ex-husband Jason Hoppy as they fought for custody of now-14-year-old daughter Brynn.
She, notably, moved out of their shared home and bought her own, which she was “not supposed to do,” but the judge “applauded” due to the particular circumstances.
Frankel and Hoppy, 54, split in 2012 but did not finalize their divorce until 2021.
Kardashian, for her part, filed for divorce from Kanye in 2021 after seven years of marriage and four children: North, Saint, 9, Chicago, 7, and Psalm, 5.
The former couple settled their divorce the following year and have publicly clashed over co-parenting on many occasions, with Kardashian making headlines for crying over their “hard” dynamic in 2022.
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