I Will Always Have Kanye West’s Back – Kim Kardashian

Kim Kardashian will always have her husband’s back.

On Sunday’s season finale of Keeping Up with the Kardashians, Kim, 38, opened up about her relationship with Kanye West, 41, in the weeks after the rapper’s controversial declaration that slavery was a choice in May.

Though she admitted she was “hysterically crying” when she first heard about it, Kim insisted that West was “doing good” even though “everyone thinks he’s having a breakdown.”

“When he gets ramped up, he can’t control what he says — he can’t let it go,” she said. “He loves being ramped up. He’s like, ‘I feel powerful when I’m ramped up. I don’t want to be so suppressed. Yeah, I say crazy s—, but I’ve always said crazy s—. That’s why I’m Kanye.’”

“I always know what Kanye’s intentions are and what he’s trying to say, but I also know that they’re going to write a headline and people are going assume that that’s exactly what you said and what you meant,” she continued. “He didn’t say slavery is a choice, he was saying, ‘If you’re going to still be enslaved for another 400 years, then that’s some bulls—.’ That, as a wife, is really frustrating to see the media take everything and run with it.”

And the timing couldn’t have been worse: Kris Jenner was scheduled to appear on Ellen DeGeneres‘ talk show — and while Kim strongly felt her mother shouldn’t be the person to speak for West, she decided to go ahead with anyway.

“I just want to make everything better,” said Jenner, 63. “You know me. I want everybody to get along, I want everybody to be happy, I want everybody to understand one another, communicate.”

“Even thought Kanye went on TMZ this morning and made some controversial comments, my loyalty really lies with Kanye,” Jenner continued. “It’s really my job to be there to support Kanye and be somebody in his life that offers him love and support and not criticism.”

But once the dust on West’s comments had settled, Kim was grateful that it had all worked out as she joined him in Wyoming to celebrate his album launch party.

“I am so excited to be in Wyoming for Kanye’s listening party,” she said. “After TMZ, Kanye changed his whole album. I’m just excited so many people came out to support him. … I’m glad that now we can just have fun, listen to the music and have a good time.”