Court was in session—and so was Kim Kardashian, who showed up ready to testify and possibly re-traumatize.
Okay, so imagine this: It’s 2016. Kim Kardashian is in Paris for Fashion Week. The outfits are fierce, the selfies are fire, and the hot chocolate is hotter than Kris Jenner’s PR skills. Everything is magical—until it’s not. Enter: the worst Airbnb experience of all time.
The Night That Turned into a Netflix Thriller
Kim was living her best bougie life at the “No Address Hotel” (which sounds fake but is very real and extremely bad at security). She was just about to go night-night—naked but make it Parisian chic, a robe delicately tossed over her like a napkin on a five-star dinner roll—when BAM! Five masked men busted in like they were auditioning for Oceans 5: We’re Here for the Ring.
“I was just about to fall asleep… and also naked,” Kim told the court, officially starting the worst bedtime story of all time.
They dragged in the night concierge like, plot twist! and Kim was like, “Wait, is this guy in on it or just also having the worst Tuesday ever?” Spoiler: he was also just trying to live, poor guy.
The Ring? Oh, You Mean THE Ring?
Kim says they kept demanding her ring, but in classic overwhelmed millennial fashion, she thought it might be terrorism or a prank or some kind of avant-garde Paris Fashion Week protest. “They were yelling about a ring, but I was still in shock and like, ‘Which ring? My phone ring? Saturn’s ring? Mood ring??’”
Eventually, one robber found her jewelry box and went full Dora the Explorer. “Aha! Aha!” he yelled, like he just discovered the Holy Grail or Kylie’s new lip kit.
Things Got Really Real
At one point, a gun was shoved into her back. Kim considered running, but also realized she was not in a Jason Bourne movie and this wasn’t the time for cardio. So she just went full zen mode. “I thought, should I run? But then I was like, nah, let’s not add ‘shot in a hallway’ to the itinerary.”
Then, horror movie moment: her robe flew open. Yup. Full Kardashian exposure. She braced herself for the absolute worst. “I thought this is the moment I get assaulted,” she said. Instead, the men just tied her up. Not great. But not… the other thing.
“I prayed,” she said. “I thought I was going to die. I imagined Kourtney finding my body and going full ‘why is this hotel so understaffed’ meltdown.”
Bath Tub Blues & Balcony Bushes
After the burglars finally left (probably exhausted from lugging $10 million worth of bling), Kim managed to MacGyver her way out of the restraints. She found her stylist, Simone, and the two of them pulled the most dramatic scene imaginable: crawling onto a balcony and hiding in the bushes like they were starring in Keeping Up With the Camouflaged Kardashians.
From the bushes, Kim called Kris Jenner. You just know Kris answered on the first ring, sipping wine and already drafting a statement to TMZ.
The Judge Asked… “Where Were the Bodyguards?!”
Great question, Your Honor. Apparently, they were at another hotel. Because, sure, split the team like it’s group night on The Bachelor. Kim explained, “That was the norm back then. We just assumed the hotel was secure. Spoiler: it wasn’t.”
Trauma, Snapchats & Spray Tans
The judge was like, “Hey, in one KUWTK episode you said the robbers saw your Snap and used that to find you alone—what’s the truth?” Kim clarified that Snapchat was from the night before, when she was getting a spray tan. Because nothing says “fashion icon” like being bronzed and emotionally vulnerable.
“I just wanted a little fake tan for Balenciaga,” Kim basically said. And somehow that tan ended up being Exhibit A in a criminal investigation.
The Apology Letter: Robber Edition
Now here’s where the script flips. One of the robbers, Aomar Ait Khedache, wrote Kim a whole apology letter. Like a full-on emotional Tumblr post from 2013. It was read aloud in court and honestly, it was kind of… poetic?
“I’m sorry. I saw you cry on TV. My bad. I was moved. Regret. Sad face emoji.”
Kim responded like a literal queen: “I forgive you. But let’s be real, my life is still messed up. So thanks for the letter but I’m still sleeping with 9 bodyguards and a nightlight.”
The robber wrote another note after that. “Your forgiveness is a sunshine that has enlightened me.” Okay, Shakespeare. Calm down.
So, What Now?
Kim is still on the witness stand. She’s giving testimony. She’s giving trauma. She’s giving “I might still become a lawyer after all this.”
Stay tuned for the next episode of Law & Order: Kardashian Unit.