Khloe Kardashian reportedly got engaged to then-boyfriend Tristan Thompson just one month before he impregnated fitness model Maralee Nichols.
An insider told Buzzfeed that Khloe had secretly accepted Tristan's proposal in February 2021 before cheating on her with Nichols that March.
It was also alleged that Khloe, 38, and Tristan, 31, were still engaged at the time that DailyMail.com exclusively revealed in December that the NBA star had fathered a child behind her back.
Tristan was well aware that Nichols had a child on the way but kept the news from Khloe and encouraged her to continue on with their surrogacy journey.
They went through with an embryo transfer in late November 2021, just days before the paternity scandal went public.
The claims made by Buzzfeed directly contradict the narrative told in Thursday's episode of The Kardashians, which saw Khloe's older sister Kim Kardashian suggest that the Good American founder had rejected a proposal from Tristan in December 2020.
But it's now being alleged that Khloe had actually turned Tristan down in December of 2019 but they 'revisited the subject' in February 2021, which she accepted.
Khloe and Tristan secretly rekindled their on/off romance, which has been plagued by cheating on the athlete's part, while co-parenting their four-year-old daughter True during the COVID-19 lockdown.
Wanting to give their little girl a sibling, they pair eventually decided to embark on a surrogacy journey that kicked off in October 2020, according to Buzzfeed.
In legal documents obtained by DailyMail.com, Tristan admitted to first meeting Nichols in 'late November/early December 2020' and that they dated 'sporadically' for months but that the relationship was strictly sexual.
He also stated that their child would have had to have been conceived on March 13, 2021 -- which was his 30th birthday.
That same month, Tristan and Khloe went public with their rekindled romance on social media.
Last week's episode of The Kardashians revealed that Tristan was made aware of Nichols' pregnancy in July 2021.
But Khloe was kept in the dark until DailyMail.com revealed in December that he'd secretly fathered a child.
Nichols gave birth to her and Tristan's son Theo that same month.
Due to the devastating betrayal, Khloe has since revealed that she felt as though a 'dark cloud' was hovering over their surrogate's pregnancy.
Their second child, a son, was born in July and Kim accompanied Khloe during delivery. Tristan was later invited to the hospital to meet their son for the first time.
The birth of Khloe and Tristan's son kicked off the highly-anticipated second season of Hulu's The Kardashians, which aired its premiere episode last Thursday.
The baby's birthdate and face were unveiled during the one-hour episode, but Khloe has yet to disclose her son's name.
This week, The Kardashians vaguely touched on the fact that Tristan had once proposed to Khloe. She'd turned him down and never revealed it to her family.
She dropped the bombshell while visiting Kim at her Calabasas compound. The proposal admission even surprised one of the show's producers, who asked Khloe about it in confession and she confirmed he proposed.
Kim brought up the proposal in a rather nonchalant manner while talking to Khloe, stating, 'I mean, the fact that he proposed and you never told us.'
Kim added that she ran into Tristan and asked about the proposal and he said that he did that, 'months ago' and he asked, 'She didn't tell you guys?'
Kim adds in confession, 'I'll never forget Tristan calling me and he was gonna propose to her on Valentine's Day, which was like a year since they had drama, so this was like last Valentine's Day.'
'And then I called him the day after and was like, 'Hey I never heard anything from Khloe. Oh my God did you propose?' And he was like, 'Oh yeah, I did in December.' Oh my God, she didn't tell us.'
Khloe tells Kim, 'I said I need to make sure this is a totally different relationship because I want to say I'm proud to be engaged to anyone.'
'That's why I said, "I'm not comfortable accepting this right now because I'm not excited to tell my family,"' Khloe explained.
'And as sure as that was probably hurtful for him to hear, it was the truth. I'm not ever gonna accept something and give someone false hope, and that's what I told him,' Khloe tells Kim.
