Pete Davidson Recalls Kim Kardashian Rejecting Him At Met Gala 1 Month Before They Started Dating

Weeks before Kim Kardashian hosted Saturday Night Live and met her aboriginal boyfriend, Pete Davidson, the world prima denied his advances erstwhile they some attended the 2021 Met Gala. The erstwhile mates discussed the concern portion getting acceptable for the 2022 Met Gala connected the Nov. 17 occurrence of The Kardashians. As they prepared to person their large red carpet moment astatine the event, Pete recalled their brushwood astatine the erstwhile Met Gala successful September 2021.

“Remember erstwhile I asked for your fig astatine the past Met and you pretended you couldn’t springiness it to maine due to the fact that you were wearing gloves?” Pete asked Kim, referring to her head-to-toe covered Balenciaga outfit astatine the 2021 Met. Kim intelligibly felt atrocious for rejecting Pete and said, “Will you inquire maine again? I don’t person gloves connected now.”

Kim and Pete astatine the 2022 Met Gala. (ZUMAPRESS.com / MEGA)

Pete assured Kim that the gloves were the “nicest excuse” ever and she told him it wasn’t an excuse. Luckily, helium took the rejection successful stride. “I retrieve being successful the car like, ‘Wow, she knows however to marque idiosyncratic consciousness truly bully astir themselves,'” Pete admitted. “I thought that was truly sweet. You’re like, ‘I’m sorry, I can’t springiness you my number, I person gloves on.'” Kim responded, “Aw, if lone I had known!” The 2 went connected to commencement dating conscionable weeks aboriginal successful October 2021, though they ended up breaking up the pursuing July.

Kim and Pete separately astatine the 2021 Met Gala. (RCF / MEGA/Stephen Lovekin/Shutterstock)

Later connected successful the Kardashians episode, Kim and Pete were successful the car connected the mode to the Met and discussing however brainsick it was to spell from the White House Correspondent’s Dinner, wherever they made their reddish carpet debut, to the Met Gala conscionable 2 days later. “Two backmost to backmost was the killer,” Kim admitted. “We’ll ne'er bash the White House again. But I truly wanted our archetypal reddish carpet for maine to beryllium successful brownish hairsbreadth astatine a non-fashion event.” Of course, Pete had to propulsion successful a joke, retorting, “I wanted it to beryllium getting slimed astatine the Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards, but to each their own!”

Kim antecedently opened up astir denying Pete her telephone fig during an interrogation connected the Not Skinny But Not Fat Podcast successful April 2022. “I saw him astatine the [2021] Met and helium knew I was hosting SNL but it wasn’t announced yet,” Kim explained. “He came up to maine and we were talking about SNL. I was like, ‘They amended hurry up and denote it due to the fact that I volition not backmost retired arsenic soon arsenic they denote it,b ut I’m truthful nervous.'” Kim revealed that Pete offered her his telephone fig successful lawsuit she needed hosting proposal up of her debut connected the show.

“I was like, ‘Oh, I person gloves,’ and helium was like, ‘Alright cool’ and walked away,” Kim recalled. “But I was going to beryllium like, ‘Oh, instrumentality mine!’ But it was like, no. So we ne'er connected oregon anything.” Of course, that each changed by the opening of October. Following Kim’s SNL debut, she got Pete’s number and reached retired to him, sparking their 9 period romance.