Khloé Kardashian was "relieved" to learn Tristan Thompson was moving to Cleveland

During the season five premiere of 'The Kardashians', Khloe - who moved into her current abode in 2021 - said: "The move in and all of these changes was still just so overwhelming for me.

"Now that he's going to Cleveland, I can imagine I'll just feel a relief. I don't care who it is, I need space."

Later in the episode, Tristan joked he should connect his house to Khloé's, something the beauty icon didn't appreciate, and bit back, "Come on, you know where I stand".

Khloé ranted she "hates" how often she needs to be "on guard" with her former partner.

She said: "Sometimes I hate how much I have to think and be on guard to not do anything that might ever give a glimmer that there's hope.

"They just don't leave even when you ask them to. They just keep staying!"

Khloe and Tristan's on/off relationship has been blighted by his cheating, including sharing a kiss with Jordyn Woods and fathering a child with Maralee Nichols while a surrogate was pregnant with Tatum, and the reality star admitted she needs some time and space to "heal".

She said: "I feel like the past couple years have been - I don't know if traumatic is too big of a word - but I feel like the past couple years, or maybe the past decade, has really been a very heavy time in my life, and I don't necessarily get a lot of time to just like, heal."

Khloé admitted Tristan's departure would be "bittersweet", but emphasised she was looking forward to putting her "energy into things that make [her] happy" while he was away.

She said: "I'm not doing anything special. I'm not doing anything different.

"But I just want to be in the moment more, I want to put my energy into things that make me happy."