14 DAY TRIAL // Kris Jenner rules over her daughters and son with an iron fist, both as a mother and as their manager. Her estranged husband Bruce Jenner is no exception, as she admits herself on the most recent episode of the family’s reality show, Keeping Up with the Kardashians.
Talking to daughter Kourtney and scolding her for allowing partner Scott Disick to buy a helicopter and park it in their backyard (oh, the problems of the rich and famous!), Kris is shown imparting her wisdom to Kourtney, based on her own experience with Bruce.
At the time they got together, he was still at the top of his game and, as such, he was living the life of a superstar. Few knew that this was a life he couldn’t afford but, now that Kris has gone public, the whole world does.
“When Bruce and I started dating, he had a lot of toys,” she tells Kourtney, as cited by Radar Online.
“He had jet skis and motorboats and snowmobiles and a house on Lake Tahoe but the truth is, we owed hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxes. We didn’t have any money,” Kris explains.
They also had kids and another on the way, and no way of putting food on their table.
What was even worse, Bruce would not listen to reason, so she had to step in and literally put her foot down and, this way, save him from financial ruin. She continued to control him until later in life when, tired of always being bossed around, he finally told her he wanted to get a divorce. Or so the rumors say.
“The fact that I was the one who went and cleaned up the mess, I should have gotten a medal for that. I had to be the practical one and get rid of some of these crazy expenses,” Kris continues on the show.
In the end, Scott didn’t buy the helicopter but not because of something Kourtney or Kris told him, but rather because it was taking up too much space and he realized their 2 children, Penelope and Mason (and the third one on the way), could get hurt playing around it.
Later in the episode, Kris apologized to Bruce for the decades she spent dictating his every move, from how to dress to what to spend money on, saying that she wished she would have used other words to make him understand. However, she was convinced she acted right, so she wasn’t exactly sorry for controlling him – just for not doing it in a more subtle way.