Kim Kardashian reveals she still ‘can’t sleep’ if there are any ‘expensive items’ in her home… five years after she was robbed at gunpoint in her Paris hotel
Kim Kardashian opened up about how she is a ‘completely different person’ after being robbed of millions, at gunpoint, during Paris Fashion Week in October 2016.
Nearly five years after burglars broke into her hotel room, tied her up and stole $10 million of jewelry, the 40-year-old reality star revealed ‘no expensive items ever come’ into her home.
‘As far as jewelry, if I’m wearing something, it’s borrowed. It’s fake,’ she told Andy Cohen during the Keeping Up with the Kardashians reunion on Thursday night.
Terrifying: Kim Kardashian opened up about how she is a ‘completely different person’ after being robbed of millions, at gunpoint, during Paris Fashion Week in October 2016
She added: ‘I can’t sleep if I have jewelry in my safe, or money, or anything at my house. I just don’t live my life like that.’
In addition to doubling her personal security, she has openly spoken about being less flashy and her hesitance over wearing expensive jewelry post-robbery.
‘On a positive note, I’m a completely different person because of it, in the best way,’ she reflected. ‘[Before the robbery], I had to have the coolest car, the best rims, the best outfit and I thought that I was the s**t because of that. I thought that made me.’
Traumatic: Nearly five years after burglars broke into her hotel room, tied her up and stole $10 million of jewelry, the 40-year-old reality star revealed ‘no expensive items ever come’ into her home; pictured in 2016 during Paris Fashion Week
‘As far as jewelry, if I’m wearing something, it’s borrowed. It’s fake,’ she told Andy Cohen during the Keeping Up with the Kardashians reunion on Thursday night
She continued: ‘The things I valued before that happened were genuinely completely different than what I value now. It’s fun to get dressed up and all this, but like, [material] things don’t make me.’
The traumatic incident also ‘significantly changed’ her and sister Khloé Kardashian’s relationship.
While noting ‘Kim was obviously a great sister prior,’ the 36-year-old Good American founder said there has been a ‘significant shift in how’ Kim ‘caters to her relationships and the attentiveness that she now gives her family as opposed to red carpets or things.’
Big changes: In addition to doubling her personal security, she has openly spoken about being less flashy and her hesitance over wearing very expensive jewelry post-robbery; seen in 2016
‘I mean, our relationship has significantly changed,’ Khloé noted.
In October during an appearance on My Next Guest Needs No Introduction With David Letterman, Kim admitted to fearing her older sister Kourtney, 42, would return and ‘find [her] dead’ in their room at the Hôtel de Pourtalès.
‘I kept on thinking about Kourtney, I kept on thinking, like, she’s gonna come home and I’m gonna be dead in the room and she’s gonna be traumatized for the rest of her life,’ recalled Kim tearfully.’
Closer: The traumatic incident also ‘significantly changed’ her and sister Khloé Kardashian’s relationship
‘On a positive note, I’m a completely different person because of it, in the best way,’ she reflected. ‘[Before the robbery], I had to have the coolest car, the best rims, the best outfit and I thought that I was the s**t because of that. I thought that made me’
She claimed that a gun was pointed directly at her as thoughts regarding the fate of her sister’s safety flooded her brain.
Kim and Kourtney traveled to Paris, France together in October of 2016 to attend Paris Fashion Week.
The KKW Beauty founder noted that Kourtney had ‘packed all [of Kim’s] jewelry’ for the trip, which was something she had ‘never done before.’
Alone: Kim explained that on the evening of the robbery Kourtney left their hotel with the sisters’ sole bodyguard, which meant Kim was completely alone in their suite; Journalists work as police officers stand guard outside Kim’s hotel in Paris, France in 2016
Unsuspecting: Kim and Kourtney traveled to Paris, France together in October of 2016 to attend Paris Fashion Week; Kim pictured ONE DAY before the robbery in Paris in October of 2016
Scary: Kim explained that on the evening of the robbery Kourtney left their hotel with the sisters’ sole bodyguard, which meant Kim was completely alone in their suite; seen with Kourtney the day before the robbery
Kim explained that on the evening of the robbery Kourtney left their hotel with the sisters’ sole bodyguard, which meant Kim was completely alone in their suite.
Then around three o’clock in the morning, Kardashian remembered hearing ‘stomping up the stairs’ that sounded as if a group of people were inching closer and closer to her room.
Kim told David Letterman, 73, that something about the noise made her instantly feel as though ‘someone was there to get [her],’ so she decided to dial for help.
Then, to the KUWTK star’s horror, a gang of intruders violently made their way into her hotel room and specifically demanded that she fork over a ring husband Kanye West, 43, had purchased for her.
As she continued to recall the terrifying event for Letterman, Kim broke down in tears.
She explained that, at the time of the robbery, she was only wearing a robe and one of the intruders aggressively ‘grabbed her.’
Intuition: Then around three o’clock in the morning, Kardashian remembered hearing ‘stomping up the stairs’ that sounded as if a group of people were inching closer and closer to her room
Horror: Then, to the KUWTK star’s horror, a gang of intruders violently made their way into her hotel room and specifically demanded that she fork over a ring husband Kanye West, 43, had purchased for her
‘I was like, ‘OK, this is the time I’m gonna get raped. Like deal, this is gonna happen, just prepare yourself,” recalled Kim to Letterman.
‘So, I did and then — I don’t know why I’m crying, I’ve talked about this before — and then he tied me up with handcuffs and zip-ties and then duct tape and duct-taped my mouth and my eyes.’
Thankfully, no one was physically harmed during the course of the robbery, but Kim said the entire experience made her ‘really paranoid’ for a year’s time.
She would have ‘half a dozen’ security guards posted up about her Calabasas home at all times.
The assailants were, eventually, arrested in January of 2017 and Kim learned that they were watching her every move ‘for two years leading up until this moment.’
She alleged that the robbers had attempted to rob her on prior occasions, but their plans were thwarted due to the presence of Kim’s husband Kanye.
‘I didn’t know that they had someone at the elevators, someone at the front, someone that moved the camera, someone that broke the door, someone in the getaway car.
‘There was a whole team of people that had planned this,’ she concluded.
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