On last night's Keeping Up With the Kardashians, Scott Disick and Kourtney Kardashian took in the news that they might be "soulmates," at least according to Mas Joko, a local Bali healer they visited on their vacation. The two exes and co-parents ultimately made a decision about their relationship, according to People and E!, and Disick discussed candidly what it meant for his girlfriend Sofia Richie.
The two both agreed after Joko's reading that being called "soulmates" was a lot to process.
“I don’t really know what to think. I’m in another relationship,” Disick said, via People. (Disick has been dating Richie for over a year.) “I just want to take whatever good away from it that I can.”
“I just really wasn’t expecting that this is what was going to come out of this reading,” Kourtney said. “I feel really claustrophobic or something. We’ve come to such a good place—we’re finally able to travel together as a family. There are so many positives. But the whole soulmate thing comes up…I don’t know. It’s just a lot to think about.”
Khloé Kardashian later mentioned to Disick that if she were Sofia Richie, she'd be "insecure" about his relationship with Kourtney. Disick explained that Richie knew this is what came with dating him.
“I mean, Sofia knew going into this that I was extremely close with Kourtney,” he explained. “She was like, ‘Listen, I will never get between you and your family and your children. Just speak to me and make me comfortable.’ “
Khloé asked him if the soulmate thing would bother Richie and cause a fight between them later, according to People. That's when Disick was candid about how he felt about both women:
“I definitely don’t want to disrespect my relationship with Sofia because it means a lot to me,” he started. “Whether Kourtney and I are soulmates or not, I feel like I owe a lot to Kourtney for the times that I missed when I wasn’t the best partner to her. So I feel like I will forever be making up for that lost time for the rest of her life.”
Disick later decided that soulmates can have different meanings:
“I think at first when you hear soulmates, you assume two people must be together. We obviously aren’t, and we’re doing very well,” he started. “I think it’s unbelievable that me and Kourtney are able to live the way we are and to be able to open up to each other. A lot of people, including us, didn’t know that we were going to be able to do it. I thank God every day for it because my kids and my family are the most important thing to me. At the end of the day, I don’t want to hurt anybody. Sofia knows that we’re raising three kids together and until our kids are 100, I’ll still be making sure that Kourtney and my kids are a priority in my life.”
Ultimately, he and Kourtney sat down and talked about their relationship a few days after the reading. They decided nothing about its status is going to change, even if they are "soulmates."
“I kind of think it’s one of those things that you can take it any way you want to take it,” Disick said. “You can be negative and think the guy is full of crap and feel nothing came of it, or you can take it positive and just feel like he’s wishing nothing but good upon you and your life and your future. He wasn’t really telling us anything we don’t know. We have three children, we love each other and we’re family. I’m happy with that.”
“We’re definitely in a great place,” Kourtney agreed. “We’re very lucky.”
Kourtney later admitted in the episode that she believes they are soulmates in a sense: “I don’t know what the definition of soulmate is, but Scott and I, we’re going to be in each other’s lives forever. We are soulmates, in a sense. No matter what, whether we’re ever together or not.”
That Keeping Up With the Kardashians episode was shot months ago. But Kourtney appeared on the Ellen DeGeneres Show airing today and discussed her and Disick's current relationship. They are still happily co-parenting.
"We get along really well," she told DeGeneres. "He was texting me today. I said, ‘Hey, do you want to come on Ellen with me today?’ He said, ‘let’s do it next time.’ Whatever. I said, ‘I don’t need you. I’ll go up with a marching band instead.’ But yeah, no, we get along really well. I feel like we travel together with the kids. He definitely makes it clear that the kids are his priority, and he checks in with me every morning, throughout the day, every night just to make sure I’m good and that the kids are good. And it’s such a nice change. I feel like he’s finally grown up."
Alyssa Bailey is the senior news and strategy editor at ELLE.com, where she oversees coverage of celebrities and royals (particularly Meghan Markle and Kate Middleton). She previously held positions at InStyle and Cosmopolitan. When she's not working, she loves running around Central Park, making people take #ootd pics of her, and exploring New York City.
