Khloé Kardashian defended as teacher who messaged her gives 'his side' of the story
Khloé Kardashian is speaking out again about the high school teacher who slid in her DMs last year.
For those who need a reminder, the reality TV star, 42, had an exchange with content creator and teacher Jacob Myers-Norys last December.
He listed his qualities on Instagram like a dating profile and joked: “Somewhere out there is the woman who’s gonna ask how my school day was.”
Khloé went viral when she answered: “How was your day??”
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The comment caught the attention of fans and after a few response videos from Myers-Norys, the world seemingly moved on… until this month.
The new season of The Kardashians began on 8 October and in the first episode, Khloé addressed the comment. “On his Instagram he highlighted some of his great characteristics and then in the caption something like, ‘I can’t wait for a woman to ask me how my day was.’ I thought it was wholesome.”
She then recalled: “I just wrote in the caption, ‘How was your day?’ It was that innocent.
“Do I think I’m gonna go and marry this young man? Absolutely not,” she declared, but said the situation ‘took off like wildfire’.
Then, she claimed she has ‘like 15 DMs from him that have gone unresponsive,’ before reading the messages to camera.
She read: “‘If anything, I just want to say thank you for everything.’ ‘I know it was just a comment.’ ‘Love to hear how your day was.’ ‘Just shooting my shot once again.’ ‘I would love to meet you and talk about how your day was.’”
As reported by E! News, Khloé had a savage message for the teacher, whose social media handle uses ‘Yacob’.
She said: “Calm down, Yacob. Just be cool. And his name is Yacob? Yacob, please, get a J.”
The teacher clapped back with a TikTok of his own, in which he’s sitting, drinking from a coffee mug, with an audio in the background saying: “Oh no, I’m devastated.”
He wrote over the clip: “When they try to roast and embarrass me on The Kardashians, but I get roasted by high schoolers every single day.”
And added in the caption: “Hey, at least I can say I made it onto The Kardashians.”
The response to both parties have been mixed. However one fan wrote, “Love the Kardashians but the way she handled this left a sour taste in my mouth.”
Another follower wrote: “Khloé was wrong for shaming you on TV I lost respect for her.”
Now Khloé has defended herself once again, this time on her podcast, Khloé in Wonder Land by poking fun at the spelling of her own name.
“I honestly thought the name thing was like, I was trying to be funny because I was just at my wits end of explaining everything but—my name is spelled with a K. Khloé’s normally not. So, Yacob take your Y. I’m proud of it. I’m into it.
“I thought it was funny at the end I thought people could tell my tone but clearly not. All good. I was very frustrated with all the other events leading up to that.”
Myers-Norys admitted that he did message Khloé but disputed that it was as many as 15 messages.
Khloé explained: “Did I need to bring you up at all? Probably not. It was a hot topic that I was asked about and so I did. But also you’re not saying why I’m so creeped out which I have right to be like, ‘No. This is my boundary. Do not cross this line.’”
“It’s just strange. I didn’t like it.”
In a comment posted to Instagram, Myers-Norys defended himself after his students gave him a framed picture of Khloé.
“I had absolutely no idea they were doing it but obviously I thought it was funny. I understand everyone has their own perspective but I do think context matters.”
In response to Khloé's podcast, Myers-Norys released a lengthy video addressing the situation. He said: "I do wanna address how Khloé said she felt. I listened to the podcast, and I genuinely want to apologise for making her uncomfortable. That was never my intention. I understand that just because I thought something was funny doesn’t mean that other people will also find it funny. I respect her boundaries, and looking back, I can see how some of my messages and jokes might have come across differently than I intended."
He added: "But I also wanted people to understand the context. A lot of what was described came from family jokes, student pranks, and social media trends. And as for my video about getting roasted on the Kardashians, that was just me making fun of myself. I’m a high school teacher, my students roast me every day, and I thought it was funny that I was getting roasted on national television. I wasn’t trying to start a feud with the Kardashians."
Topics: Khloe Kardashian, Celebrity, Reality TV
Greg Harris