Kimora Lee Simmons Reveals Her Reaction To Finding Out Daughter Aoki Lee Was Dating ‘Predatorial’ 65-Year-Old Restaurateur: ‘I Found Out When The World Found Out’

Kimora Lee Simmons is breaking her silence, more than a year after her daughter’s relationship with a man 44 years her senior went public.

The matriarch discussed the unconventional relationship on the Not Skinny But Not Fat podcast on Dec. 9, opening up to host Amanda Hirsch about how she felt watching her then-21-year-old daughter, Aoki Lee Simmons, date then-65-year-old restaurateur Vittorio Assaf.

“I let my kids make their own mistakes, like I said. That’s the whole thing we were saying about living out your life in public, and I think that’s very, very, very tough,” Simmons said in a clip shared with People ahead of the podcast’s release. “I don’t even think that was a moment for them, though. Or I should say the opposite. I think it was just that — a moment. I don’t think it was an