The Kardashian-Jenner family members have been living their lives in the public eye for nearly two decades, and we’ve heard some wild rumors in that time. There’s the speculation over Khloé Kardashian’s real father (that’s the one that bothers Kris Jenner the most), and theories about Kim’s infamous sex tape. One other thing that the family hasn’t been able to shake is that Kourtney’s husband Travis Barker dated Kim first. See Kim address those rumors herself below.Travis Barker started dating Kourtney Kardashian late in 2020, but the two were close friends and neighbors long before that. Still, it was Kourtney’s sister Kim who met him first when she worked for Paris Hilton. The Kardashian sisters have never quite been able to kick this Kim/Travis rumor, so when Kim appeared on Call Her Daddy, Alex Cooper took the opportunity to ask her directly if she’d ever hooked up with Travis Barker. Here’s what Kim had to say: A post shared by TheTRAPspotMAG (@thetrapspotmag)A photo posted by on This isn’t the first time Kim Kardashian has denied that she’d hooked up with Travis Barker, and here again she explained that while she did hang out with the Blink 182 drummer, nothing ever happened between them. She told Alex Cooper:No, I never have [hooked up with him]. … He dated Paris, and we were all friends and we’d all, like, hang out and when I was with Paris, we’d be on the road and go to, like, their tour in Amsterdam. So I have been friends with him, but never, like, in that way and never, yeah, never hooked up with him.If the SKIMS boss is so adamant that nothing ever happened between her and her sister’s now-husband, why do the rumors persist to such a degree? Travis Barker Wrote About Kim Kardashian In His MemoirFans have plenty of thoughts about Travis Barker’s 2015 memoir Can I Say: Living Large, Cheating Death, and Drums, Drums, Drums, where he admitted to “secretly checking out Kim” when he met her through Paris Hilton. He said he told his buddy Chris Baker: I don’t care if she’s the closet girl, she’s fucking hot.He also said that during some “time off” from then-wife Shanna Moakler that he started “talking with” Kim Kardashian, and that the two would grab meals together. This was right around the time, he said, that her sex tape had come out and she’d recently broken up with Ray J. Travis Barker wrote:You might think I would be doing the worst things with this girl because of her tapes, but it was the exact opposite of any other encounter I’ve had with a woman: with Kim, I wanted to be nothing but a gentleman to her. It was so weird.Kim Kardashian said on Call Her Daddy that she never got a heads-up that Travis Barker was going to mention her in his memoir, but said:It would say that we never hooked up. I mean, I don’t think he would allude to that information, you know? Sure enough, Travis Barker did write:Kim and I never touched each other. It just wasn’t meant to be.Kim Kardashian also told Alex Cooper that Kourtney Kardashian was around that whole time, too, and that her kids had grown up with Travis Barker's kids as neighbors, and that the Barkers were at all the birthday parties. Everyone was always friends, she said.Still, Travis Barker’s ex-wife Shanna Moakler has been singing a different tune since then. She has accused the Kardashians of “destroying” her family on multiple occasions, even pouring a drink on Kim Kardashian at a party, according to Barker’s memoir, when she found out the two had gotten close.Certainly there will be fans who always believe Shanna Moakler’s version of things or who read into Travis Barker’s comments about his relationship with Kim Kardashian. However, according to both the drummer and Kim, no hookup ever happened.As we wait for The Kardashians to return to the 2026 TV schedule, you can catch all seasons of The Kardashians and Keeping Up with the Kardashians with your Hulu subscription.