United Kingdom, Oct. 3 -- Kim Kardashian needed to be single to "heal" from her marriage to Kanye West.

The Kardashians star split from the controversial rapper - with whom she has children North, 13, Saint, 10, Chicago, eight, and seven-year-old Psalm - in 2021 after almost seven years of marriage, and aside from a short-lived romance with Pete Davidson, the brunette beauty had largely been alone until finding love with Lewis Hamilton, and she insisted she never felt "empty" without a relationship or in a "rush" to get romantically involved with someone new.

She told the Sunday Times Style magazine: "I was really single for five years. And that felt great. I could focus on my kids and projects that I really wanted to be involved with....