Caitlyn Jenner: Kris 'mistreated' me

Kris Jenner hit back at Bruce saying the decision to become a woman is "passive aggressive". Photo / AP

Caitlyn Jenner - formerly Bruce - has revealed new details about her split from Kris Jenner, saying "20 per cent was gender, 80 per cent was the way I was treated".

Speaking to Vanity Fair, where Caitlyn made her public debut this week, the former Olympian said Kris "mistreated" Bruce throughout their 23-year marriage.

She said Kris used to rely on Bruce as the breadwinner but became less tolerant once she began earning money through the reality show, Keeping Up With the Kardashians.

Kris Jenner had hit back at Bruce saying the decision to become a woman is "passive aggressive". Photo / AP

"A lot of times she wasn't very nice. People would see how I got mistreated. She controlled the money, all that kind of stuff," Caitlyn told Vanity Fair.

Kris Jenner was also interviewed for the feature, telling Vanity Fair: "He was married to me and he wasn't who he wanted to be so he was miserable...

"All I was doing was working very hard for my family so that we could all have a wonderful future, and he was pissed off.

"At the end of my relationship with Bruce he definitely had a lot of social anxiety... That was one of the reasons we were in a struggle at the end."

Kris admitted she was taken aback by Bruce's announcement to become a woman.

"It was like the most passive-aggressive thing I think I ever experienced," she said.

Caitlyn told Vanity Fair Kris knew Bruce took hormones in the late 1980s and told him to stop cross-dressing at home.

The couple separated in June 2013 before officially divorcing in September.

- nzherald.co.nz