Tristan Thompson appears in Drake's latest music video, "Falling Back," helping the artist marry 23 women. This made the video controversial not only because it showed polygamy in a graphic detail, but also because it made Thompson, Khloe Kardashian's "cheating ex" a "cheater enabler."
The professional basketball player serves as Drake's best man in the nine-minute video, which was released along with the Grammy-winning artist's unexpected seventh studio album "Honestly, Nevermind" on Friday.
"You ready?," Thompson, age 31, inquires of the "groom" in the music video's introduction.
Drake, 35, confirms that he is Canadian, to which his fellow countryman responds, ""[If it] doesn't feel right, we scrap it, we go home, it's done."
However, the former "Degrassi" star respond, "Nah, I'm good, bro. It's a good time for me. I'm ready to settle down. I'm in love."
Thompson adjusts Drake's bow tie and beard, remarking that he is "thrilled" for the chart-topper and must get him "correct" because he will "only be married once."
The remainder of the polygamy-themed music video depicts Drake's wedding to a vast array of Instagram models wearing white gowns. At the altar, he gives each bride a ring and performs secret handshakes with some of them.
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"I think he's really taking these ones seriously," Drake's mom, Sandi Graham, tells another guest during the ceremony.
On June 17, Thompson posted a photo from the set to his Instagram Stories with the caption, "You did it again, @champagnepapi."
Thompson's December 2021 cheating scandal played out on "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" a day prior to the music video's premiere and the Chicago Bulls player's cameo.
After learning that her on-again, off-again boyfriend fathered a kid with fitness model Maralee Nichols, Khloé Kardashian deemed his behavior "despicable" in Thursday's episode.
"Was Tristan going to inform me if a baby wasn't involved?" The 37-year-old former "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" star wondered in a confessional. She was sure he wouldn't and that for her, says a lot about baby daddy's character.
While Thompson has yet to comment on the show's current plot, in January he apologized to Kardashian after announcing his paternity, admitting therefore that he cheated on Khloe.
It can be remembered that there were already past cheating instances, in which Khloe Kardashian will get really mad at and yet, ends up giving Thompson another chance to woo her back. It remains to be seen if this can happen this time again.
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