Van Jones and Kim Kardashian addressed their feelings about the rumors that they were dating in a new episode of Van’s podcast Uncommon Ground on Wednesday April 6.
The old friends laughed about the buzz around their friendship where people thought that they were dating shortly after her split from Kanye West in 2021.
Van, 53, told Kim, 41, that he felt like it was the “best rumor ever.” To start the interview, Van joked about their rumored romance, saying that the two can now speak publicly about their work on criminal justice reform. “Now that we’re broken up, we can actually have a conversation in public,” he quipped.
Kim also said that even though the rumors were unexpected, she did also think that it was “funny.” Van also revealed that when the rumors started coming out, his friends got excited that they thought that he was dating the SKIMs founder, but he had to let them down. “Being a big nerd, having all my guys from college calling like, thinking I was the hero, I was like, ‘No, we’re just working on trying to get people out of prison,’ but it was a cool rumor,” he explained.
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