'He's a man's man': Bruce Jenner's first wife denies rumours he's a cross-dresser… and lashes out at Kris

Bruce Jenner’s first wife has hit out at reports that he’s a cross-dresser and points the finger at his estranged spouse for trying to 'destroy' his life.

Chrystie Scott, who is still in touch with her ex, says that the comments will hurt him and there’s only one person behind the rumours - Kris Jenner.

Speaking exclusively, Chrystie, 63, says: ‘This is a plan by Kris to destroy his life, she's not a pleasant woman... She's out to get him. She doesn't want him to be happy.’

MailOnline has reached out to Kris' representative for comment. 

Bruce, 64, has been the subject of cross-dressing rumours after Robert Kardashian’s ex-wife Ellen claimed last year that he’d been doing it for most of his life, and it was tolerated by Kris, 58, and Chrystie.

Ellen claimed last year it was actually Chrystie who told her about it, explaining in an interview: ‘Of course Bruce was every woman’s heartthrob when he was that age, right? But Chrystie said: "Yeah, until I went on a trip and I came back and he had gone through all my clothes. And I found my bras… He’d clip them together and wear them."’

The claim is vehemently denied by Chrystie, who says: ‘There was no suggestion of cross-dressing when I was with him. He's a man's man.’

On Thursday, TMZ reported that Bruce met with a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon for a consultation to flatten his Adam’s Apple in a procedure known as chondrolaryngoplasty.

The operation reduces the size of the cartilage in the neck and is typically performed on patients in the initial stages of gender reassignment surgery.

'I just never liked my trachea,' he told the website. He later clarified that his initial reason for seeing the surgeon was due to a 'large scar' on his nose that hadn't healed after a cancerous growth was removed in September.

'Chrystie claims that it was Kris who sent the story out, stating: ‘It’s her putting out all these rumours. I didn’t want to speak to the press, but she’s the one. I’ve said enough already.'

Chrystie, who then took the surname Crownover, was happily married to Bruce for eight years between 1971 and 1979. 

The couple had two children together, Burt, now 35, and Casey, 33, and Chrystie has always stuck up for her ex even though he left her while she was pregnant with Casey for model Linda Thompson, whom he eventually married.

She told People Magazine years later that there was never a custody battle and she has retained her respect for him, before adding: ‘Bruce is a good father, and I want him involved with my kids.’ 

Chrystie, who is divorced from her second lawyer husband Robert, is still in touch with Bruce and says that being away from Kris is the best thing that can happen for him and the children.

He would be wishing that the story would just die away, according to Chrystie.

She says: ‘I don't speak to him that often, but it's better for everyone, especially the kids, that they're not together and she's out of his life. Hopefully, they'll have more of a chance of leading a normal life out of the spotlight.

‘I can't say anymore, but he’s never been a cross-dresser in all the time I've known him.’