He’s depressed, isolated from the family, refusing help

Mar 26, 2015 15:05 GMT  ·  By
Rob and Kim Kardashian used to be close but have grown apart in the past year
   Rob and Kim Kardashian used to be close but have grown apart in the past year

Rob Kardashian hasn’t been seen out at public events for over a year, which, for anyone named Kardashian is a complete rarity. He’s not even that active on social media, again an anomaly for everyone else in his family.

A couple of days ago, he broke his silence on Instagram to post a photo of Amy Dunne from the movie “Gone Girl,” covered in blood and surrounded by a large crowd, comparing her to his witch of a sister Kim. So what’s really happening here?

“Rob is in a dark place”

Since the photo was clearly not a joke, it was taken to mean that Rob and Kim were still not on speaking terms after a major fallout that occurred before her May wedding to Kanye West, when she told him he was too fat to be in the family wedding portraits.

Word online has it they haven’t spoken since, and that Rob deeply resents Kim for being so blunt to him, but particularly so indifferent to his problems.

Sources close to the family confirm for both Us Weekly and People Magazine that he is still in a “dark place,” struggling to overcome depression, but still pushing every family member looking to help him away.

However, what bothers him the most is that Kim is the only one not really trying to help him, but acting as if he could just snap out of his depression - or “funk,” as she calls it. She’s just a huge hypocrite, he believes.

“His post was about how she seems caring in public, but he feels ignored,” says a spy. “He’s been depressed and just a bit off in general. But he has always been this way. He just can’t lose the weight and he doesn’t try - he just sits around.”

The report also says that the family staged several “interventions” for Rob to get better, but he refused all of them. Earlier rumors claimed that he had also developed a problem with prescription drugs and alcohol, because he was self-medicating and drinking himself into oblivion.

The elephant in the room

It’s strange to see a family whose members will discuss anything from bikini waxes to their love lives on camera effectively shut one of their own out of their life and then pretend like nothing is the matter.

In her most recent interview, Khloe was asked directly about Rob and she tried to downplay reports of his depression and possible addiction by saying he was going through “something.” She wouldn’t exactly deny the rumors, but she refused to confirm them too.

A while back, Kris Jenner, Rob’s own mother, also spoke of him in pretty much the same terms, only half-acknowledging a problem.

At the same time, the entire Kardashian-Jenner clan continues to live as if nothing is the matter and the fact that they’re so exposed in the media means that we can actually tell they never spend any time with him.

So it’s probably no wonder why Rob feels so left out and neglected.