Kim Kardashian flew to Minnesota to meet with estranged husband Kris Humphries and for the first time since filing for divorce after a mere 72 days together. Page Six says:

Sources confirmed to us that Kim had flown to Kris’ hometown early yesterday to talk to him in the presence of his family pastor Joel Johnson, who married them on Aug. 20.

Kim planned to apologize to Humphries’ family for the damage her marriage drama has done to them. The source close to Kim told us, “Kim feels deeply embarrassed and sad about what happened, and decided . . . to talk things through with Kris . . . She also wants to apologize to Kris’ family for all the drama, media attention and hurt this has caused them. She regrets not calling them to explain before she filed for divorce.”

A friend said, “She feels going to Minnesota to talk is the right thing to do, she is so embarrassed by the way everything turned out. While she accepts people are criticizing her for the lavish wedding, she feels terrible about letting everyone down.”

The source added, “The problem is they are two fundamentally different people. He is younger and has different priorities. They could not even agree on where to live: He wants to be in Minnesota, and she wants to be in LA . . . She is also very hurt that he issued a statement saying he was blindsided by the divorce filing. He knew it was coming; they both knew things weren’t working . . . but some part of Kim also misses Kris, and still wants him to be a part of her life.”

This reeks of some second-rate Speidi fake divorce ratings ploy. Will there be a last minute reconciliation? Will Kim have a change of heart? Did E! film six different endings to this story and then run them over on a focus group who was carefully outfitted with hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of equipment that measures pupil dilation and respiratory rate to scientifically determine which fake ending would yield the most advertising dollars? I guess we’ll have to wait for May sweeps and see!

Looking appropriately contrite at LAX last nite:

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