Kim Kardashian, during emotional courtroom testimony in Paris on Tuesday, has revealed she was certain she was going to be raped and murdered by thieves who allegedly stormed her hotel room in the French capital.
The reality star said she prayed that her sister Kourtney wouldn’t return to find her bloody, lifeless body and begged for her life during the harrowing experience at her hotel almost a decade ago.
Kardashian, 41, described how one of the alleged thieves taped her hands and her mouth while another held a gun to her.
“He grabs my legs and pulls me. I’m naked and my everything is exposed. I was sure that I was going to be raped,” she told the court.
Laying out her fears for her family, she added how she thought that her sister Kourtney would return to find “that I would be dead on the bed, shot dead, and that she should have this memory forever,” during the chilling testimony.
“I absolutely thought I was going to die,” she replied to presiding judge David De Pas’ question as to whether she feared for her life.
She described how she was in bed at the swanky Hôtel de Pourtalès in 2016 when she heard “stomping” outside before men dressed as police officers entered the room with the concierge, who had been handcuffed.
“I obviously was very confused when they walked in,” she said, adding that she kept asking the concierge what was happening, before one of the thieves pointed at her hand and said the word “ring,” over and over.
“I said to the concierge, ‘I have babies, tell them, I just have to make it home,’” she told the court, describing how she was “pretty hysterical” as she spoke to the hotel employee, who was acting as translator.
She said the concierge chillingly replied, “I don’t know if we’re going to die.”
Later, after the thieves left, a terrified Kardashian was able to get her hands free while her ankles and mouth were still taped up, she told the court.
She said she hopped down the stairs to find her stylist and childhood friend, Simone Harouche, who was staying on the floor below.
Harouche helped to cut the zip ties off her ankles and the pair ran and hid in the bushes outside while Kardashian called her mom, Kris Jenner, she said.
When the police arrived, she remembered “being confused if they were real police because the other guys were dressed as police. I didn’t know who to trust,” she said.
Kardashian arrived at a French courthouse wearing a black suit and long black skirt on Tuesday to finally stare down the group of 10 now-elderly crooks who allegedly robbed her at gunpoint inside a Paris hotel nearly 10 years ago.
Kardashian was bound and gagged while wearing nothing but a bathrobe during the terrifying ordeal as the gun-toting robbers took off with a trove of jewelry, including her diamond engagement ring from then-fiance Kanye West.
The defendants, whom the French press had dubbed the “grandpa bandits,” are mostly now in their 60s and 70s and have a range of ailments.
At the time, they allegedly made off on bicycles following the Oct. 3, 2016, heist.
Kardashian’s French legal team previously told media in Paris that the Skims co-founder, 44, was committed to “confronting those who attacked her.”
“She will do so with dignity and courage,” her lawyers said last week.
Only one item — a diamond-encrusted cross — has since been recovered from the robbery, which happened when Kardashian was in town for Paris Fashion Week.
The $4 million, 18.8-carat diamond ring from West has never been found.
Kardashian is set to be questioned by the judge first, then her lawyers, followed by the prosecution, and finally the defense team for the alleged thieves.
