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Khloe Kardashian<\/strong><\/a>‘s 3-year-old son is keeping her late dad Robert Kardashian Sr.<\/strong> close to heart.<\/p>\n In fact, the reality star revealed that Tatum Thompson<\/strong><\/a>, who she shares with ex Tristan Thompson<\/strong><\/a>, calls his grandmother Kris Jenner<\/strong><\/a> by a nickname once used by the Kardashian patriarch.<\/p>\n “My mom, her grandma name is Lovey,” she told Long Island Medium<\/em>‘s Theresa Caputo\u00a0<\/strong>on the Feb. 4 episode of Khloe in Wonder Land<\/em><\/a>. “My son Tatum calls her Honey.”<\/p>\n And Kris would “start bawling” every time Tatum referred to her as such, according to Khloe.\u00a0<\/p>\n “She’s like, ‘That’s what your dad used to call me,'” the 41-year-old continued. “None of us encouraged Tatum to call her that.”<\/p>\n That’s why Khloe\u2014who was 5 years old when her parents separated<\/a>, before Robert passed away in 2003<\/a> from esophageal cancer at age 59\u2014believes there’s a spiritual link between her father and her son.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n