Reality TV star Kim Kardashian told the alleged mastermind of a jewel heist in which she thought she was going to die that she forgives him, but that this took away none of the trauma from being held at gunpoint in her Paris hotel room in 2016.
“I absolutely thought I was going to die,” the billionaire celebrity told a Paris court yesterday, recounting her shock and fear during the attack, in which she thought she was going to be raped and shot.
“I thought about my sister, thought she would walk in and see me shot dead and have that memory in her forever,” she said.
Kardashian cried as she recalled the start of the attack, in which the suspects are accused of tying her up with zip ties and duct tape before making off with jewellery, including a $4 million engagement ring given to her by her then-husband rapper Kanye West (now known as Ye).
Dressed in a smart black outfit by British designer John Galliano and wearing shiny jewellery, Kardashian, 44, recalled the details of the attack.
“We were leaving the next morning so I was just packing up, it was around 3 in the morning. I heard stomping up the stairs when I was in bed,” she said, adding that men dressed as police officers barged in.
“Then I heard one of the gentlemen forcefully say ‘ring! ring!’ in English, with an accent, pointing,” she said. One of them pointed a gun at her.
“I was pretty hysterical and I just looked at the concierge and told him ‘What is going to happen to us? I have to make it home to my babies’,” Kardashian said.
She said at one point she feared she was going to be raped as the robbers threw her on the bed and one of them grabbed her leg.
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