--- title: Kim Kardashian on Kendall Jenner Pepsi Ad Video Interview description: Kim Kardashian West defended sister Kendall Jenner's controversial Pepsi advertisement during an appearance on 'Watch What Happens Live.' canonical: https://time.com/4797761/kim-kardashian-on-kendall-jenner-pepsi-ad/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-05-30T15:57:54.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-06-24T06:56:44.875Z og:title: Kim Kardashian Adresses Kendall Jenner's Controversial Pepsi Ad og:description: "She would never mean for anyone to perceive anything in a negative way" og:url: https://time.com/4797761/kim-kardashian-on-kendall-jenner-pepsi-ad/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltea6c76edcdc4c5fb/6988cf5ffb4eac283189238d/kimk.jpg?branch=production&width=1081&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1081 og:image:height: 608 og:image:alt: KimK og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Kim Kardashian Adresses Kendall Jenner's Controversial Pepsi Ad twitter:description: "She would never mean for anyone to perceive anything in a negative way" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltea6c76edcdc4c5fb/6988cf5ffb4eac283189238d/kimk.jpg?branch=production&width=1081&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Kim Kardashian West Address Kendall Jenner's Controversial Pepsi Ad > Sponsored content. 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"She would never mean for anyone to perceive anything in a negative way"_  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang May 30, 2017 3:57 PM UTC  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang May 30, 2017 3:57 PM UTC One of the few constants of the ever-changing world of [_Keeping Up With the Kardashians_ ](http://time.com/4677589/keeping-up-with-the-kattarshians/)is the tight-knit bond of the Kardashian-Jenner sisters, something that [Kim Kardashian West](http://time.com/4621107/kim-kardashian-west-posts-first-instagram/) confirmed during an appearance on [_Watch What Happens Live_](http://time.com/4779369/jenna-dewan-on-dating-justin-timberlake/)_,_ where she staunchly defended her younger sister [Kendall Jenner’s controversial Pepsi ad](http://time.com/4726500/pepsi-ad-kendall-jenner/). In an interview with Andy Cohen, the reality celebrity opened up about the Pepsi ad for the first time, giving some insight into how Jenner felt about the controversy. “She totally understood at the end of the day and she felt really awful for it,” Kardashian West said. “She just wants to move on from it.” Kardashian West continued to defend Jenner later in the interview, saying that her intentions were good. “I think any time someone does anything they don’t have bad intentions—especially Kendall, who’s so sensitive,” she said. “She would never mean for anyone to perceive anything in a negative way.” The advertisement, which heavily referenced resistance culture and featured Jenner handing a can of Pepsi to a police officer as a peace offering, [sparked plenty of backlash online](http://time.com/4728979/stephen-colbert-kendall-jenner-pepsi-attractive-lives-matter/), with some calling the commercial tone deaf for making light of social movements like Black Lives Matter; Pepsi ended up pulling the ad the day after it was released, citing that it “missed the mark.” Watch Kardashian West’s interview below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4797761/kim-kardashian-on-kendall-jenner-pepsi-ad/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4797761/kim-kardashian-on-kendall-jenner-pepsi-ad/"},"headline":"Watch Kim Kardashian West Address Kendall Jenner's Controversial Pepsi Ad","datePublished":"2017-05-30T15:57:54.000Z","dateModified":"2026-06-24T06:56:44.875Z","description":"\"She would never mean for anyone to perceive anything in a negative way\"","url":"https://time.com/4797761/kim-kardashian-on-kendall-jenner-pepsi-ad/","keywords":["Newsfeed","watch what happens live","Kim Kardashian","Kendall Jenner","kim kardashian west"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltea6c76edcdc4c5fb/6988cf5ffb4eac283189238d/kimk.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltea6c76edcdc4c5fb/6988cf5ffb4eac283189238d/kimk.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"KimK","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4797761/kim-kardashian-on-kendall-jenner-pepsi-ad/","name":"Watch Kim Kardashian West Address Kendall Jenner's Controversial Pepsi Ad"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"This Video Is No Longer Available","description":"\"She would never mean for anyone to perceive anything in a negative way\"","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/fKodeUO6/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2026-06-23T15:00:44.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/fKodeUO6.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4797761/kim-kardashian-on-kendall-jenner-pepsi-ad/","duration":"PT10S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4797761/kim-kardashian-on-kendall-jenner-pepsi-ad/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```