COSMOPOLITAN · 75Seeing her fresh-faced, outside the
realm of social media and with her
mum, Elizabeth, a few steps away
ensuring that her girl feels supported,
she seems younger than her 21 years.
Over the past few months, Jordyn
Woods’ name has featured heavily
in celebrity gossip headlines and
been dragged through the mud on
Instagram. “There’s been so much
that’s happened in my life, I feel like
I’m so old,” she tells me semi-wearily, as
though the magnitude of living such
a public-facing life is still sinking in.
She is referring, in part, to the loss of
her father in 2017 and to the moment
she found herself embroiled in a
tabloid frenzy of cheating allegations
surrounding the Kardashian-Jenner
posse – the world’s most-watched
family, with a combined social-media
following in the hundreds of millions.
For the benefit of the uninitiated,
Woods – a successful fashion and
beauty entrepreneur – was known
to many as the long-time best friend
of Kylie Jenner. Until, in January of this
year, there was an alleged kiss between
Woods and Tristan Thompson,
boyfriend of Kylie’s sister Khloé
Kardashian and father of Khloé’s
16-month-old daughter, True. In an
intimate chat with close family friend
Jada Pinkett Smith on her online show
“Red Table Talk”, Woods claimed that
Thompson kissed her on the way out
of his house. Yet a now-familiar
narrative pattern, in which men
are not held to account for their
infidelities, repeated itself and despite
Thompson’s rumoured history of
cheating, it was Woods who
received an onslaught of
online hatred, including
a (since deleted) tweet
from Khloé Kardashian
that read, “Why are you
lying @jordynwoods?? If
you’re going to try and save
yourself by going public,
INSTEAD OF CALLING
ME PRIVATELY TO
APOLOGIZE FIRST, at least be
HONEST about your story. BTW, you
ARE the reason my family broke up!”
apparently holding Woods accountable
for the subsequent breakdown of her
relationship with Thompson.
Woods goes on to explain that,
straight after the kiss, “I didn’t know
how to feel. I was like, ‘That didn’t
just happen’. I [told him] ‘I need to go.’I was leaving already so I walked out
immediately. I got in the car. I was
in shock.” The first thing she did was
check in with her mum and family
and spend time processing what had
happened. “You know that saying,
‘I feel so alone in a room full of
people’? I went through a phase of
thinking, ‘I’m going to isolate myself,
because I don’t know how I feel.
I don’t know what the
right thing to do is.’”
Throughout our
conversation, Woods speaks
about the importance of her
relationship with God. “I
just need[ed] some time by
myself to try to understand
what [was] happening, why
it [was] happening, and how
am I going to react to this
internally, you know? How can I make
things right with myself, with God
and with my relationships? It took
some time off in order for me to have
a level head on how I should react.”
When it comes to self-care, Woods is
an advocate of social-media detoxing
in favour of family time. “I don’t
believe in clapping back, or reacting
out of emotion. I could have handled ›“I don't
believe in
clapping
back”CELEBRITYLife is crazy. A lot can
happen in four years,” says Jordyn Woods,
sitting across from me in London’s
Sanderson hotel, wearing a hoodie that
aptly reads “Bad energy stay far away”.
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