--- title: Kim Kardashian Talks About Paris Robbery on Ellen description: Kim Kardashian tears up on Ellen as she talks about how she was robbed in Paris. canonical: https://time.com/4757305/kim-kardashian-paris-robbery-ellen/ author: Madeline Farber article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-04-27T13:31:29.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T04:38:01.454Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Kim Kardashian Tears Up Talking About Paris Robbery: 'It Was Meant to Happen to Me' og:description: "I was being flashy and I was definitely materialistic before" og:url: https://time.com/4757305/kim-kardashian-paris-robbery-ellen/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc5a7dcf0fec2b2c8/6988b4978e06014e86468b93/kim-kardashian-psorasis-face.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Buro 24/7 Fashion Forward Initiative - Paris Fashion Week Womenswear Spring/Summer 2016 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Kim Kardashian Tears Up Talking About Paris Robbery: 'It Was Meant to Happen to Me' twitter:description: "I was being flashy and I was definitely materialistic before" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc5a7dcf0fec2b2c8/6988b4978e06014e86468b93/kim-kardashian-psorasis-face.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Kim Kardashian Tears Up Talking About Paris Robbery: 'It Was Meant to Happen to Me' > Sponsored content. 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(Photo by Jacopo Raule/Getty Images)Jacopo Raule—Getty Images by [Madeline Farber](https://time.com/author/madeline-farber/) ## Madeline Farber Apr 27, 2017 1:31 PM UTC Kim Kardashian West gave her first TV interview on Wednesday since she was [bound, gagged, and robbed at gunpoint in Paris](http://time.com/4516165/kim-kardashian-held-up-at-gunpoint-in-paris-hotel-room/?iid=sr-link8). While talking on _The_ [_Ellen Degeneres_](http://time.com/4654985/ellen-degeneres-immigration-ban/) _Show_, Kardashian West began to tear up as she talked about her life-changing experience.” I know this sounds crazy, but I know that was meant to happen to me. I don’t want to start crying, but I feel like that was so meant to happen to me,” she said in an episode set to air Thursday. “I’m such a different person. I, um…I don’t want to start crying anymore. It was meant to happen to me. I really feel like things happen in your life to teach you things. It was probably no secret, and you see it on the show—I was being flashy and I was definitely materialistic before.” In October of 2016, the reality-TV star was robbed at gunpoint in her Paris hotel room by five men who were disguised as police officers. According to reports, they tied her up and locked her in a bathroom and stole millions of dollars worth of jewelry. Kardashian West left the incident unscathed. After detailing the night of the robbery to Degeneres, the [_Keeping Up With the Kardashians_](http://time.com/4677589/keeping-up-with-the-kattarshians/) star added that she’ll be dressing less extravagantly from now on. “It’s not to say that I’ll never wear jewelry again or anything like that, \[but\] I truly don’t know if I’d ever feel comfortable. I don’t know if I’d ever wear real jewelry again,” she said. “Just…my whole life as changed as far as how I travel and security. I never thought that I needed security staying outside my door, even though I had a lot of jewelry. If you think about it, yeah, I should have had a security guard outside my door 24/7 when I’m traveling and I didn’t. Now, I have several, just for me to be able to sleep at night.” You can watch the full clip [here.](http://www.ellentv.com/videos/0-3llnfy81/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4757305/kim-kardashian-paris-robbery-ellen/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4757305/kim-kardashian-paris-robbery-ellen/"},"headline":"Kim Kardashian Tears Up Talking About Paris Robbery: 'It Was Meant to Happen to Me'","datePublished":"2017-04-27T13:31:29.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T04:38:01.454Z","description":"\"I was being flashy and I was definitely materialistic before\"","url":"https://time.com/4757305/kim-kardashian-paris-robbery-ellen/","keywords":["celebrities","Kim Kardashian","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc5a7dcf0fec2b2c8/6988b4978e06014e86468b93/kim-kardashian-psorasis-face.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Madeline Farber","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/madeline-farber/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc5a7dcf0fec2b2c8/6988b4978e06014e86468b93/kim-kardashian-psorasis-face.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Buro 24/7 Fashion Forward Initiative - Paris Fashion Week Womenswear Spring/Summer 2016","caption":"Buro 24/7 Fashion Forward Initiative - Paris Fashion Week Womenswear Spring/Summer 2016","creditText":"Jacopo Raule—Getty Images","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":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/celebrities/","name":"celebrities"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4757305/kim-kardashian-paris-robbery-ellen/","name":"Kim Kardashian Tears Up Talking About Paris Robbery: 'It Was Meant to Happen to Me'"}}]}] ```