, who previously served as Kim Kardashian’s assistant for four years, put lingering rumors about her 2017 firing to rest in a new interview.
At the time, the split seemed to suggest Shepherd's interpersonal relationship with her had soured.
But during an October 23 appearance on , Shepherd offered a very different take on how her termination went down.“I just inherently felt like, ‘It is time to move on.
I don’t know if I have anything more I can contribute to this,’" Shepherd explained.
“I think she probably felt that and saw that.”Shepherd even went so far as to call their professional split “the most beautiful uncoupling,” and recalled both of them crying during the fateful conversation.“She’s like, ‘I want you to [thrive].
You need something more.
You have this thing—pursue that.
I’m supporting you [with] whatever you need,'” Shepherd said, paraphrasing Kim Kardashian's words.Today, the two remain friends.“We have never been closer," Shepherd went on.
"She is still someone that I go to for personal and professional advice all the time.
But I think it was just that feeling inside where I was like, ‘Okay, it’s time for me to move on.’ And I didn’t really have a plan.
But I just knew that it was time for me to try something different.”Shepherd, who co-founded the environmental non-profit Future Earth after moving leaving her former boss, also equated working for Kardashian to earning a master's degree.“It’s a machine, and it is meticulous," Sheperd noted of the influencer family's inner workings.
“I always say it is my graduate school.
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