Kim Kardashian Says ‘I Was Sure I Was Going to Be Raped’ During Emotional Testimony About Paris Robbery

Kim Kardashian is testifying at the trial for the suspects involved in the 2016 robbery in which the reality star was tied up and held at gunpoint in her Paris hotel room.

According to the BBC, on Tuesday, May 13, Kardashian, 44, was asked at one point if she thought she was going to die during the robbery, to which she replied, “I absolutely did think I was gonna die.”

The reality star also said she was wearing nothing but a robe during the incident, adding that it came open when one of the men pulled her toward him “exposing everything on my body.”

“I’m certain that’s the moment he rapes me. I say a prayer to mentally prepare myself,” she testified. However, her legs were tied together instead.

According to Kardashian, she repeatedly told the robbers “I have babies and I need to get home to my babies,” and said she thought one of them told her to “shut up” at one point, per NBC News.

As her testimony continued, Kardashian said even as it became clear that the robbers appeared to only be interested in stealing her jewelry, she still feared for her life and worried that her mother, Kris Jenner, and sister Kourtney Kardashian would find her dead.

After being thrown onto the bed with her hands and feet bound, Kardashian told the court she thought she was going to be shot.

“At that point I was sure that’s when they were going to shoot me,” Kardashian said, according to the BBC. “So I said a prayer for my family and my mom and my sister and best friend.”

She added that she knew Kourtney, 46, would be returning to the hotel soon. She said she believed “I would be shot dead on the bed and she would see that and have that memory forever.”

Before the robbers exited her room, Kardashian said one of them dropped her on the bathroom floor. She waited several minutes to ensure they were gone before she tried to free herself. She told the court that she was able to free her hands before hopping to her stylist’s room to get help.

Kardashian further testified that prior to the incident, she felt safe in Paris. However, now she has four to six bodyguards with her at all times, including when she’s at her home in California.

Ten people are being tried on charges related to the heist, according to the New York Times, NBC News and ABC News. The group has been dubbed the “Grandpa robbers” by French media due to their older ages and previous criminal history, according to ABC News.

Kardashian was visiting the city for Fashion Week in October 2016 when five masked men broke into her room at the No Address Hotel and tied her up at gunpoint before locking her in a bathroom. The thieves stole millions of dollars worth of jewelry from the reality star in the middle of the night.

The SKIMS co-founder has said the robbers took two diamond Cartier bracelets, a gold and diamond Jacob necklace, Lorraine Schwartz diamond earrings, a gold Rolex and other items during the heist, according to French newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche. A $4 million ring gifted to her by then-husband Kanye West was also among the items stolen.

A source close to the reality star told PEOPLE in 2016 that she managed to escape after wriggling her hands out of the zip ties. A second source told PEOPLE that Kardashian then “screamed from the balcony” for help.

Kardashian previously said she believed the perpetrators tracked her via social media.

French police initially arrested 17 suspects across France in connection with the armed robbery in January 2017. Half of the 10 suspects currently on trial are considered alleged accomplices. One of the men indicted by prosecutors is the younger brother of Kardashian’s Paris chauffeur.

One of the suspects on trial, Yunice Abbas, 71, has publicly admitted to his involvement in the crime. He co-authored the 2021 book I Kidnapped Kim Kardashian, in which he identified himself as one of the robbers behind the heist. Since then, Abbas has testified that he had no role in choosing the title of the book, which he claims misrepresents his actions, NBC News reported.

“I regret it, not because I got caught, but because … there was a trauma,” Abbas testified on April 29, per NBC News.