Kim Kardashian says her ex-husband, presumably the artist formerly known as Kanye West, once accused her of faking the 2016 Paris robbery that “forever” changed her life.
In a new episode of Hulu’s The Kardashians, viewers are given an inside look as Kardashian and her family, plus her legal team, prepare for the long-awaited trial in the case. Per Kardashian, the process was lengthy “for multiple reasons,” including pandemic-related delays.
Kim and others, including childhood friend Simone Harouche, who was also in the apartment at the time of the 2016 robbery, recounted the events of the night in question. Kardashian said that robbers barged in wearing police-like attire, with the building’s concierge, cuffed and with a gun held to him, also in tow.
“My instant reaction was just, ‘I have babies. Let me go. … Please don’t kill me,’” Kardashian, who initially thought she was going to be raped during the robbery, said.
The robbers went on to tie up Kardashian on a bed, taping her face and eyes. As Kardashian sees it now, nearly a decade later, the experience “changed the way that I live,” particularly when it comes to security. Still, some had floated the false conspiracy theory that the robbery had been faked.
“Howard Stern was, like, famously mocking it all the time and saying that it’s such a joke and I made it all up,” Kardashian said. “I remember he was so defiant about it. I was like, how can he be so certain? People trust you.”
Though Kardashian didn’t directly name Ye, to whom she was married from 2014 to 2022, it was clear who her next remarks were about.
“Even my ex-husband had said, you know, ‘And you faked your robbery for a TV show,’ and said that in front of all these people,” Kardashian tearfully recalled. “That was like a knife to my heart, just to think that someone wouldn’t believe you that’s so close to you, that should know you, that should know how much that affected your life. It just really bothered me. … Like, you don’t know who I am. So to finally be able to go to trial and face these people and hear their accounts and apologies, I’m just like, ‘See, you guys? It was real.’”
Ultimately, eight people were found guilty in the 2016 robbery in May of this year.