Khloe Kardashian Felt Betrayed after Bruce Jenner Initially Hid His Decision to Become a Woman

Khloé Kardashian revealed the reason behind her anger at Caitlyn Jenner in a tell-all interview with Howard Stern.

"Keeping Up With The Kardashians" star Khloé Kardashian has revealed that she felt betrayed by her stepfather Bruce Jenner -- now Caitlyn Jenner -- for hiding the fact that he wanted to transition from the family.

Jenner, who was married to Khloe's mother Kris for 24 years, divorced her in 2015; in April of the same year, Jenner announced that he was transgender. In 2017 he underwent sex reassignment surgery and officially became Caitlyn Jenner.

Jenner's memoir cast Kris in an unflattering light, and accused her of being controlling, domineering and verbally and emotionally abusive

KHLOÉ KARDASHIAN OPENS UP

Khloé opened up to Howard Stern in an interview and shared her shock at discovering Jenner was transitioning, a fact that was vehemently denied to the family by the former athlete.

Khlóe and the family learned the truth when Jenner insisted they watch an interview he'd done with Diane Sawyer in which he announced he was becoming a woman.

From that moment on, Khloé revealed, Jenner would only discuss the issue on camera, which she presumed offered him a modicum of protection from any of the family members having an extreme reaction to the situation.

THE ISSUE WAS THE LIE

For Khloé, the big issue was not the transitioning, but the lies. Time after time, tabloids would publish articles about Jenner's transsexuality, and when the family -- including Khloé -- questioned him Jenner would deny it all emphatically. Khloé told Stern:

"I don't give a(expletive) what you want to do - just stop lying to us about things."

HINTS AT THE TRUTH

Khloé recalled an incident when she was 13 and had gone to Jenner's closet to get something, and found a bag with women's wigs and makeup. At that time, Khloé recounts, no one believed her, and both her mother Kris and Jenner maintained that she was a liar.

At the time Kris started dating Jenner, Khloé's father Robert Kardashian had warned the family that there were rumors that the Olympic champion was a cross-dresser. The family dismissed the warning as jealousy on Kardashian's part, never dreaming that 24 years later he would be proved right.

LIES, LIES, AND MORE LIES

Up until the two-hour Diane Sawyer interview in which Jenner openly identified himself as a woman, the family had been kept in the dark by a barrage of lies and denials. After the show, Jenner had spoken to each of the girls individually but never admitted he would be transitioning.

Their first hint that they were being deceived came at a business meeting in which it was casually mentioned that Jenner had scored his own docuseries about transitioning. Khloé revealed she'd said to Jenner:

"What the (expletive)! How do business people know [and we don't]"

SUPPORTIVE FAMILY

The family had accepted Jenner's transition and offered him their support, including Kris, who had a hard time coming to terms with the fact that the man she'd been married to for decades and fathered two of her children with had always felt like a woman.

THE BETRAYAL

Jenner's transitioning was front-page news, and she was invited to be on the cover of Vanity Fair, photographed by the iconic Annie Leibowitz. In the accompanying exclusive article, Jenner spoke about her ex-wife in unflattering terms. She said:

"A lot of times she wasn't very nice. People would see how I got mistreated. She controlled the money, all that kind of stuff."

REACTION TO THE INTERVIEW

It was after the Vanity Fair article that Khloé spoke to Stern. She later revealed that after the Howard Stern interview she received several angry texts from Jenner, accusing her of betraying the family. Khloé replied:

"You slaughtered my mother and you have the nerve to say, 'What happened to family sticking together?'"

THE SHOCKING MEMOIR

But worse was to come. In 2017 Jenner published a memoir about her transitioning -- "The Secrets of My Life"-- in which she claimed that she never lied to Kris, and that the Kardashian matriarch had known about his sexual identity from the beginning of their relationship.

A horrified Kris denied having even an inkling that the ardent lover and loving husband she'd been with for 23 years was anything but what he'd always shown the world: a man's man, husband to two other women before her, and father to 6 children.

Jenner's memoir cast Kris in an unflattering light, and accused her of being controlling, domineering and verbally and emotionally abusive. To the Kardashian/Jenner girls who had witnessed the marriage as insiders in what had always been a united and loving family, it was an unforgivable betrayal.

KHLOÉ KARDASHIAN - UNFORGIVING

Jenner has made peace with all the children, both his biological and his stepchildren - all, except Khloé. Jenner revealed:

"I went through every kid and Khloe for some reason was (expletive) about something through this whole process. It’s been five or six years and I really haven’t talked to her since."

On October 28, the former athlete turned 70 and celebrated the milestone birthday with a lavish party attended by the whole family, with the notable exception of Khloé Kardashian. For the reality star, there are some betrayals that just cannot be forgiven.

Khloé has moved on from the betrayal of the father of her daughter True, Tristan Thompson who was unfaithful to her several times, and from the betrayal of her close friend Jordyn Woods, but she can't forgive Caitlyn Jenner.