Kardashian family matriarch Kris Jenner tearfully told a jury on Friday of the day reality TV star Blac Chyna allegedly pulled a gun on her son Rob Kardashian.
‘She tried to murder him – she put a gun to his head,’ an emotional Kris, 66 said on the fifth day of the Los Angeles trial of Chyna’s $108 million lawsuit against the billionaire clan she accuses of deliberately having her TV show Rob and Chyna axed
Jenner compared the ‘horrific’ episode in December 2016 with her daughter Kim being held hostage and robbed of millions of dollars worth of jewels in Paris the same year.
‘My daughter was tied up and thrown in a bathtub – she was nearly killed,’ sobbed Jenner. ‘I’m a mom – I was traumatized.’
Talking of Rob and Chyna’s big fight on December 15 2016 and the ‘toxicity’ of their relationship, Jenner- who was wearing a bright pink pant suit today – said, ‘It was a horrible situation, I was heartbroken.
‘She tried to strangle him with a phone chord – I saw the marks on his neck.’
Chyna, 33, has denied claims that she was trying to kill Rob and told the court that she pointed the gun upwards and didn’t put her finger where the trigger was.
She also dismissed the incident that night where she’s been accused of trying to strangle Rob with a phone chord as a ‘joke’.
Jenner, however, said, ‘Rob was hysterical….The two were fighting each other and Corey (Kris’ boyfriend Corey Gamble) had to pull them apart and tell Rob to get his keys and leave.’
Jenner also denied claims that she influenced E! network to drop the Rob and Chyna show despite texting producers that Rob should get out of the relationship following the fight.
As he was driving away, Jenner said, Chyna ‘picked up a chair and threw it at the window of Rob’s car……she seemed extremely intoxicated and high.’
Kris admitted to sending texts to Rob and Chyna’s producers after the big fight, saying that Rob needed to ‘ditch the b**ch.’
‘It was not my proudest moment – but it was how I felt at the time,’ she told the jury.
She also conceded that she sent another text to the producers saying, ‘Let’s take her [Chyna] off the show and make it the Rob show and baby.’
Jenner defended that text saying, ‘It was 24 hours after she tried to kill him and I was really upset and trying to figure out what to do.
‘This is my son who was being traumatized…..it was a very, very broken down relationship.’
During testimony on Wednesday, Chyna claimed she was joking when she put a gun to Rob’s head in 2016, and claimed she found out her E! TV show had been cancelled six months after the fact because cameras were still following her.
The reality TV star said she and her then-fiancé were ‘laughing and joking and being silly’ on the night of December 14, 2016, as they celebrated season two of Rob and Chyna being greenlit by E!’ parent company, NBC Universal.
When she was cross-examined by the Kardashians lawyer, Michael Rhodes, Chyna denied yelling ‘I’m going to kill you’ to Rob. She told the court that she pointed the gun upwards and didn’t put her finger where the trigger was.
She also dismissed the incident that night where she’s been accused of trying to strangle Rob with a phone chord as a ‘joke’.
Chyna said she put the chord around his neck, ‘but he was playing video games and I was just trying to get his attention.’
Chyna admitted that the next morning she smashed a TV and a gingerbread house and damaged the bedroom door because she was furious at Rob for taking her phone in a fit of jealousy and locking himself in a closet to check her messages.
‘I could not take the abuse any more of him accusing me of doing all kinds of things,’ she said. ‘I was so angry because he wouldn’t give me my phone back.’
Chyna’s attorney, Lynne Ciani, suggested on Friday that Jenner, as head of the Kardashian business empire, wielded enough power to persuade the E! network not to pick up Rob and Chyna for a second season.
But Jenner denied that, telling the court, ‘I do not have any influence over the E! network’.
She also told jurors that she doubted the authenticity of a letter sent to her and other Kardashian family members by her son Rob in which he asked for their support in getting Rob and Chyna renewed for another season.
‘I do not believe he wrote this letter,’ she said.
Robert Jenkins, the TV producer who first brought Rob and Chyna to E!, told the court on Friday how the couple’s relationship quickly went downhill as filming began on Rob and Chyna – which was originally to be called ‘Rob and Chyna In Love.’
When they were pitching the show to him, Jenkins, 54, said, ‘They seemed very happy together, laughing together, joyful together.
‘But that was the first and last time I saw them happy together.
‘It was close to the start of shooting and they were quarreling, they weren’t living in the same house, they were very unhappy with each other.
‘It was very difficult to shoot a show where they didn’t want to be with each other.’
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