American fitness model, Maralee Nichols, has reacted after basketballer Tristan Thompson admitted to fathering her one-month-old son.

Nichols’ publicist made this known in a statement to Page Six on Tuesday, stating that the fitness model never doubted the paternity of her child.

The publicist said, “There was never any doubt that Tristan Thompson was the father of Maralee Nichols’ baby.

“Tristan made numerous false and defamatory statements and declarations about Maralee over the past few months, and she is taking his contrite statement today in the context of all of those statements.”

Meanwhile, since December 2021, Thompson had been in a paternity suit with Nichols over the fathering of her son.

Daily Mail reported that Tristan admitted getting intimate with Marilyn in the lawsuit but claimed it was a one-night stand.

Subsequently, after he finally confirmed that he was fathering a child with Nichols he apologized to Khloe Kardashian.