Tristan Thompson has admitted to having a months-long affair with Maralee Nichols, the woman who claims that he is the father of her child.
Earlier this month, news broke that the 31-year-old personal trainer was pregnant — and that Tristan was the father. She gave birth on December 1, just after the bombshell news dropped. Maralee is suing him for child support and for fees related to her pregnancy.
After initially disputing Maralee’s claims and saying he only had a one night stand with her, new court documents now show that the 30-year-old NBA star has confessed to have carried on an affair with her.
According to Tristan, he met Maralee in late November or early December of last year at someone’s home. He stated in the documents that he “did not foresee” the two of them having any sort of relationship, but admitted that he went on to meet up with her on a “sporadic” basis for “consensual sex only.” She is his former personal trainer.
Tristan declared in the documents:
“We did not have a serious ongoing relationship. We saw each other sporadically between December 2020 and March 13, 2021.
[Maralee] told me that she had been involved with other athletes and understood the limitations of our relationship; to wit, that we might see each other on a sporadic basis for consensual sex only.”
He went on to say that there was no “normalized relationship”:
“We did not have any dates in the traditional sense at any time; there were no dining at restaurants, going to movies, traveling or any other indicia of a normalized relationship. There was only Snapchats of ‘where’ and ‘what time’ we would hook up and what hotels would be used.”
According to the filing, Tristan denied some Snapchat and text messages that surfaced in other court docs, which include messages wherein he was allegedly telling Maralee to have the baby aborted and claims that he wouldn’t be able to give her much child support because he would soon be retiring from the NBA.
He also admitted that she came to his Los Angeles residence maybe twice:
“I only recall that Petitioner and I had sexual relations in March of 2021 and at no other time in 2021.”
Tristan declared that if the baby is indeed his, the only time he could have been conceived would be on his birthday, which was March 13:
“Petitioner constantly used the term ‘hook up’ to describe our relationship which was the reality. I am certain that if the child is deemed to be my child that the only date of conception was March 13, 2021, because it was my birthday.”
At the time of his birthday, Tristan was still in a relationship with Khloe Kardashian, the mother of his second child. She even posted a sweet birthday tribute to him on social media, with a photo of the two of them and their daughter in what seemed to be his 30th birthday celebration.
Tristan and Khloe split up a few months after that.
