Kendra Wilkinson sent son away during cheating scandal

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Sara McGinnis

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When hit with rumors her husband, Hank Baskett, may have cheated on her with a transsexual model, Kendra Wilkinson thought it best to keep her newborn daughter at her side but send their 4-year-old son Hank IV away for a while.

Opening up about the tough decision, the reality star told People , "When the news broke, I flipped on Hank and told him to get out of the house. But then I allowed him to come back and get Little Hank, because we knew there was going to be this s--- storm. I had to calm down and really just think logically and figure out what the right thing to do was."

A look back at the family's day out together in April, while Kendra was still pregnant with daughter Alijah:

"I was like, you need to take him and just hide out for a while," she continued, explaining she asked her husband to take their son to New Mexico, where Hank's parents live. "But what was so hard about it was that I felt I just gave my son away to the man who'd cheated on his family."

"It was so gross to me, but I knew in the back of my mind that he's a great father, and is the only one who could protect his son. If he'd stayed here, he'd have been hounded. If I took him to preschool, to the movies, I would not feel safe. But giving Little Hank to Hank to go to New Mexico was probably the hardest thing I've ever had to do in my life."

That does sound tremendously hard, but to be honest this whole Hank Baskett cheating scandal thing just isn't passing the sniff test for me.

I've seen clips of Kendra crying, and she does seem genuinely upset, but the whole premise is just so tabloid-sounding. Yes, real life is sometimes really crazy, but the way they're filming so much of the drama for their show -- and especially how they are still not saying if the rumors were true or not (even People reports he "may" have cheated -- just isn't sitting right with me.

My money (that is, if I had any I was willing to gamble on reality television with) is that the season finale of Kendra On Top is going to include a climactic lie detector test, which Hank will pass. A penny for your thoughts?

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