Los Angeles, United States
Rob Kardashian testified Wednesday that he feared for his life one night in 2016 when his then-fiancé, Blac Chyna, put a gun to his head and looped a phone charger around his neck hit him repeatedly with a metal bar under the influence of substances.
“She strangled me and put a gun to my head twiceI was high on cocaine and alcohol.”Kardashian said her voice almost rose to a scream in a Los Angeles courtroom as Chyna’s attorney, Lynne Ciani, tried to cast doubt on the attack and its seriousness.
Chyna is suing Rob Kardashian’s mother ChrisJennerand the sisters Kim KardashianKhloe Kardashian and Kylie Jenner who claim they spread false reports that she assaulted him until cCancellation of his spin-off Keeping Up With the Kardashians, “Rob & Chyna” and screw it up. reality race.
During an emotional and bickering hour at the booth, Rob Kardashian balked when Ciani asked him why photos and videos the following days showed no marks on him, despite testifying that she had repeatedly hit him with a foot six feet. metal rod.
“Have you got as much as a plaster on it?” asked the lawyer.
“I just told you it didn’t leave a mark on my face!” said Rob Kardashian. “And the gun that was pointed twice at my head it didn’t leave any marks on my temple during the night!”
Kris Jenner and Kim Kardashian watched the testimony from the front row of the gallery and showed no visible reaction.
Chyna testified earlier in the trial that she was never violent towards Rob Kardashian.
He said that on the night of December 14 to the morning of December 15, 2016, the couple celebrated the news that “Rob & Chyna” was getting a second season.
The night-long celebration turned into a bitter battle in the morning when he took his phone and locked himself in a closet looking for evidence of communication with other men, she said.
She testified that earlier that evening she had jokingly wrapped a cell phone charger around Rob Kardashian’s neck for ignoring her and had jokingly taken a gun he always kept unloaded from a bedside table.
the chain of events it would lead to the end of the relationship and their show.
Rob Kardashian, 35, the youngest of Kris Jenner’s four children with the late Robert Kardashian, is much less well known to the public than his mother and sisters. He was primarily an off-screen character, appearing only occasionally on the family’s reality show.
He broke the pattern in 2016 and spent a year in the spotlight before it all went wrong. He and Chyna started dating in January, announced their engagement in April, announced they were having a child together in May, had their own reality show premiere in September, and welcomed a daughter, Dream, in November.
He testified Wednesday that he felt afterwards that his love was never real and that he had been “worst weakest spot” of his life when they began their relationship.
He said the couple had been “toxic” from the start and she hit him at least five times during the year of their relationship.
“strangle someone hit someone, that’s not family“, called. “For me, this is not love.”
Rob Kardashian wore an unbuttoned baggy black shirt on the podium. His otherwise obscure testimony drew laughter from most of the courtroom when Ciani suggested that two videos showing her were taken on the same day because he was wearing the same thing.
“It doesn’t mean anything,” he said. “I use the same thing every day.”
Rob Kardashian is not a defendant in this trial. Chyna’s allegations against him, which stem from the same incidents, will be dealt with separately after the conclusion of this case.
Corey Gamble, a key witness who supported the report of Rob Kardashian’s assault, insisted earlier Wednesday that he saw Chyna hit and flogged him with a phone charger cord.while Ciani tried to deny his story.
“I said she attacked him,” said Kris Jenner, longtime friend and occasional Keeping Up With the Kardashians co-star, matriarch Kris Jenner. “What I saw is what I saw.”
Gamble said he rushed to the house where the couple was staying after Kris Jenner received an early morning call from her son, who appeared deeply distraught.
When he arrived he saidChyna was holding some sort of metal bar and threw it. He ran towards Rob Kardashian, whipped the phone cord and then punched him.
“As soon as he got to him, he started hitting him,” Gamble testified. “I was able to put myself between the two of them. They even hit me two or three times.”
Gamble said Chyna threw a chair at Rob Kardashian’s car as he was leaving and then tried to pick up a table, but Gamble stopped her.
During cross-examination, Ciani had Gamble read a statement he filed two years earlier in the case, saying he arrived to see Chyna hitting Rob Kardashian with her fists, but didn’t mention any of the objects.
“Didn’t you see enough to mention the metal rod, the wire, or the table?” asked Cyani.
“I don’t know why I didn’t include those details,” Gamble said.