Travis Barker's ex Shanna Moakler breaks silence on cutting swipe against Kourtney Kardashian

Shanna Moakler went viral for a bruising swipe at her ex Travis Barker's wife Kourtney Kardashian - and has now addressed the roiling drama to the Daily Mail.

Moakler and Barker were married from 2004 until 2008 and share two children, Landon, 22, and Alabama, 20. Barker also helped raise Moakler's daughter Atiana De La Hoya, 27, whom she had by boxing legend Oscar De La Hoya. 

This week, Barker, the drummer of Blink-182, attended the premiere of his new documentary Louder than Fear with Kardashian, Atiana, Landon and Alabama.

Absent from the red carpet were Kardashian and Barker's son Rocky, two, as well the three underage children she co-parents with her former fiancé Scott Disick - Mason, 16, Penelope, 14, and Reign, 11.

As images of the event circulated, Moakler posted and deleted a TikTok comment captured in a fan screenshot that read: 'Where are her children?'

The internet flew into a frenzy over the dig, but Moakler has now told the Daily Mail: 'Honestly, there's no major story here. I post and delete things on social media all the time, and there really isn't anything more I want to add to it. In due time, I'll be sharing my story in my own words through my book and I'm looking forward to that.'

The Daily Mail has contacted representatives for Barker and Kardashian for comment.

Moakler, who recently launched a wellness brand called Hello Foxi, announced the completion of her memoir Queen Risen six months ago.

At that time, a source who used to work with Moakler divulged to the Daily Mail that she would 'have fun taking some digs here and there' in the autobiography and 'will talk her marriage to Travis and his moving on with Kourtney.'

In her new remarks to the Daily Mail, Moakler explained that her agency is 'shopping' her memoir around to publishing houses, but that she was 'absolutely open to self-publishing because I’m ready to tell my story in my own words.'

Her book, she teased, will cover a range of subjects including her romance with Oscar De La Hoya 'and navigating a very public marriage and divorce with Travis.'

However, the project was 'not about tearing anyone down — it’s about owning my story and hopefully showing other women that you can always rise again,' she said.

During the early stages of Kourtney's romantic involvement with Barker in 2021, Moakler plunged into an explosive feud with the Kardashian family. 

She had previously alleged she and Barker broke up because he had an affair with Kourtney's sister Kim, who has strenuously denied the claim.

In May 2021, Moakler was asked if she had anything she wanted to tell Kourtney and Kim, to which she replied: 'Thanks for destroying my family, twice,' via TMZ.

'My family's broken because of this family and now my kids and I are alienated from each other because of another sister in the family, so yay for me,' she added.

'We just had dinner with our kids and all their friends three weeks ago. So, you know, this has all started since my ex started dating a certain person.'

Moakler doubled down on her claim that Barker had an affair with Kim during their marriage - an allegation Kim's camp had already by that point repudiated.

'I divorced for a reason. I'm confident in what my reasons were. People just don't divorce and, you know, break up their families for no reason at all,' said Moakler.

She was accompanied during that conversation by her on-again boyfriend Matthew Rondeau, a model who is 18 years her junior. 

At the time of Moakler's interview, she had recently been fiercely denounced by Alabama, who accused her of being an absent mother and claimed to have 'gone seven months without seeing my mom and her not calling me once.'

That broadside was not the first time Alabama publicly slammed her mother on social media, where she also took blistering aim at Rondeau.

'Matthew is nothing but awful to her. Not only that, but he cheats on her,' Alabama sensationally claimed. 'My mom has never completely been in my life. Can you guys stop painting her out to be an amazing mom?'

The teenager continued: 'Did your moms ask to see you on Mother's Day cause mine didn't? I'm done keeping it a secret, reality shows.'

'Co-parenting is hard,' Moakler responded in People: 'but I have always and will continue to prioritize my children's happiness and well-being.' 

She pointed to a 'vindictive parenting competition' and said the 'claims of being absent from my children's lives are false and incredibly hurtful.' 

Moakler, who has appeared on Hollywood Exes, said: 'I know one day my children will see through the fame and money machine they have been thrust into and realize their mother loves and will always be there for them.' 

Meanwhile, Rondeau insisted he had 'never' been unfaithful and said: 'She's an amazing mother, and I am with her because she loves and cares so much about her family. That's just one of the reasons why I love her so much,' via Life & Style 

Moakler and Rondeau conducted an infamously turbulent on-off relationship, which in the early part of 2022 briefly went up in flames after a dramatic altercation that got him arrested on domestic battery charges.

By later that year, however, Rondeau and Moakler were back together and the domestic battery charges against him were dismissed.

However in January 2023, she confirmed their final breakup, disclosing in response to a fan query on social media that Rondeau was 'single living his best life.'

That June, Kourtney - who was by then married to Barker - announced that she was pregnant at 44 with the baby they eventually named Rocky Thirteen.

The following month, Moakler adopted a more diplomatic stance to the Kardashians, signaling a potential end to her public attacks on them.

'I have my own personal reasons for not liking the Kardashians, which I won't get into,' Moaker remarked to Page Six: 'but as long as he's happy [and] as long as they are good to my kids, that's all I care about.' 

During an Instagram Q&A in April 2021, Moakler had been asked why her children were spending more time at Barker's home than at hers. 

'Because he lives behind two gates, has a mega mansion and is cooler than me,' she said. 'LOL, we have shared custody but our kids are older. We are very close.'