Kris Humphries’ personal version of hell was being recognized as the guy who was married to Kim Kardashian for 72 days.

Kris says it was “brutal” in a recent piece for The Players’ Tribune titled “I Never Wanted to Be That Guy,” in which he explains that he had no idea what he was getting himself into by dating and marrying Kim.

“I was playing at Madison Square Garden for the first time after my marriage ended, and I was getting booed so loud that it was crazy. I’m talking feel-it-in-your-bones booed. I wasn’t Kris Humphries anymore. I wasn’t a real person. I was That Guy,” the former New Jersey Nets player, who appeared on “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” multiple times, wrote.

After nearly seven months of dating, Humphries, 34, proposed to Kardashian, 38, in May 2011. The couple’s August wedding was captured on camera for E! in a two-part TV special, as was their transition as newlyweds in the “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” offshoot “Kourtney and Kim Take New York.” In October of that year, Kardashian filed for divorce from Humphries, though it wouldn’t be completed until 2013.

“Look, I should have known what I was getting into. I was definitely naive about how much my life was going to change. But the one thing that really bothers me is whenever people say that my marriage was fake,” he remarked. “There’s definitely a lot about that world that is not entirely real. But our actual relationship was 100 percent real.”

“It’s never easy to go through the embarrassment of something like that — with your friends, with your family…. But when it plays out so publicly, in front of the world, it’s a whole other level. It was brutal. I didn’t know how to handle it, because I never thought I was going to be famous in that way.

“I remember having this moment when I was getting booed so hard in Philly, and I thought to myself, ‘Why exactly are they booing me, though? Is it just because I’m That Guy from TV?'” he wondered. “‘Do they think I was trying to be famous? Is it because they think I disrespected the game of basketball?’

“The last one killed me,” he confessed, “because basketball is all I’ve ever wanted to be known for.”

For almost a year, Humphries was in a dark place, struggling with “a lot of anxiety, especially in crowds.”

“I didn’t want to leave my home. You feel like … I don’t know … the whole world hates you, but they don’t even know why. They don’t even know you at all. They just recognize your face, and they’re on you,” he explained.

“And I didn’t even want to say anything to defend myself, because it felt like I couldn’t win,” he continued. “You can’t go up against the tabloids. You can’t go up against that machine. There’s no point.”

Humphries attributes his ability to get through difficult times to his inner circle.

“Honestly, the game was the only thing that got me through it. The game and my family,” he said.

The now-retired basketballer hopes that true sports fans forget about his background and remember him for his outstanding performance.

He wrote, “I don’t want any pity at all. But I hope that true fans of basketball remember me as a grinder, as a guy who transformed into a heck of a rebounder, and as a guy who always tried to put the game in the best light.”

Kardashian is now married to Kanye West, a rapper. Saint, Chicago, and North are their three children together.