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It’s been over two years since Kim Kardashian was robbed at gunpoint in Paris. Reflecting back at the October 2016 incident, Kim says she’s “grateful” for the incident for how it changed her life. She doesn’t wish the experience on anyone, but it has changed her and she believes it changed her for the better.
The 38-year-old reality TV star went on The Alec Baldwin Show, where she talked about her tramatizing robbery.
“My life has definitely changed a lot in the last two years from that experience and just wanting more privacy,” Kardashian said. She went on to say she “almost lost” herself the year after her robbery.
“In the last three months, I feel like I’ve come out of my shell a little bit more, back to who I was,” she said according to Entertainment Tonight. “I was never depressed, but I wasn’t motivated to get up and work like I used to. It shook me.”
“I was literally – my mom had to come over and say, ‘Will you get out of bed? Will you put on something else other than sweats? Put on a little bit of makeup, feel like yourself again,'” Kardashian added.
In October 2016, Kardashian was robbed at gunpoint at the hotel she was staying at in Paris for fashion week. She was tied and gagged while the robbers stole millions of jewels from her. According to the police report, two men entered her room and held her at gunpoint and demanded her $4 million diamond engagement ring that Kanye West gave her.
Then they dragged around the rented hotel room and eventually she was tied up to the bed. The robbers stole almost $5 million worth of jewelry. They stole two diamond Cartier bracelets, a gold and diamond Jacob necklace, Lorraine Schwartz diamond earrings, a gold Rolex and many more.
“I’m totally a realist. So I know, you post on social media your locations, your jewelry, your bags, what you’re doing, where you’re going, your cars, your stuff. I would always talk about my stuff,” she said. “There was a lot of me that measured who I was by how much I had.”
She added, “I thought, ‘Oh, I’m worth so much.’ So that changed in me. And, that needed to change in me, so I’m grateful for the experience.”
Despite being happy to have grown from the incident, she still has to deal with lots of trauma.
“Even though it was horrific, and I wouldn’t wish it upon anyone, it really did deeply change me to where now I feel like I can get back to myself, I can put on makeup and heal,” Kardashian opened up.
The trauma after the incident was a lot. Kim experienced PTSD and anxiety.
“I was so scared for anyone to know where I was. Like, if I went to a restaurant, I thought, ‘Ok, they’re gonna post a photo of me online, know what I’m at this restaurant, know that my home’s open and that they can go and maybe rob my home or rob this or know I’m here,” she said.
Kardashian went on to say that she had the thought of danger in her mind all the time post-robbery. “I never thought about anything scary before, until then. I felt like I was living in a bubble, and that opened me up to so much,” she added.
Since her robbery, Kardashian has beefed up her security. She told Alec Baldwin, “Now my life is six security [guards] outside of our house at all times, and a few security when I travel, always 24/7 outside my door. I just move totally differently now.”