Khloé Kardashian fired back at people’s “gross commentary” about Tristan Thompson’s disabled brother, Amari Thompson, attending dance class.
“Last time I posted Amari in his dance class, I heard some ridiculous commentary about how, ‘How is this dance? Does he even know what’s going on?’” the Good American co-founder said in a video posted to her Instagram Stories on Saturday.
“All of this gross commentary that I don’t need [and] no one needs,” she added.
“So, if you don’t know or if you have never had someone with special needs in your life and you don’t know what their interests are or what makes them happy, don’t comment. And if you don’t like this type of content, you don’t have to watch it. We’re all good over here.”
Kardashian, 41, then said she would be posting a “few videos” from Amari’s dance class that the reality star was “given permission” to share.
“I want to highlight such an amazing dance academy that does so much for special children,” she explained.
“And it’s so beautiful and it’s so special and these kids are so happy,” the “Kardashians” star shared.
Kardashian then shared videos of Amari — who has LGS [Lennox-Gastaut syndrome], a form of epilepsy — enjoying dance class.
In one of the clips, dance instructors spun the 19-year-old around as he smiled in his specialized power wheelchair.
Kardashian also shared a photo of herself and some of the dance teachers posing alongside Amari for a photo.
“I’m so thankful for places like this and for human beings like this!” she wrote atop the snap.
In July, the Hulu star revealed that she became the main caretaker for Amari due to Tristan’s busy NBA career.
Kardashian said he ex and Amari’s mother, Andrea Thompson, was the “sole caretaker” for the teen in Canada until she passed away from a heart attack in January 2023.
After Andrea’s death, the “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” alum — along with her family and the Cleveland Cavaliers player — “took Amari back with us to the States.”
“Tristan is in the NBA and he is in a different state, literally, every other day or every few days, and it’s just not conducive for Amari to be on that many planes,” she explained.
“Amari has a handful of seizures a day with the type of epilepsy that he has.”
Kardashian now keeps Amari in Los Angeles with her and hired two “sensational caretakers” to help care for him.
Kardashian, who shares daughter True, 7, and son Tatum, 3, with Tristan, 34, said she believes having Amari around is “important” for her kids, nieces and nephews “to be exposed to all different types of people in the world.”
Tristan first filed for temporary guardianship over the teen in September 2023, claiming their father, Trevor Thompson, had played no role in raising Amari since 2014.
The athlete was allowed to manage his brother’s finances — including the $103,475 inheritance he received from his late mother — and to travel both domestically and internationally with him, in addition to making decisions on his living arrangements and more.
Tristan and Kardashian split for good in 2021 after Maralee Nichols filed a paternity lawsuit against the former Los Angeles Lakers player over her son, Theo, who was born in December of that year.
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