New York Post

‘I SAW THE GUN’

Teary Kim tells of terrifying hotel heist

- By LIA EUSTACHEWI­CH Additional reporting by David K. Li leustachew­ich@nypost.com

Kim Kardashian sobbed as she relived the horrifying moment she was robbed at gunpoint inside her Paris hotel room last October.

In her first extended comments on the family’s E! Entertainm­ent Television show about that terrifying night, Kardashian said her eyes were locked on a gun pointed by one of the invaders. The weapon was “clear as day,” she recalled.

“They ask for money. I said, ‘I don’t have any money,’ ” the reality-TV star (left) said in a new teaser for this Sunday’s episode of “Keeping Up With the Kardashian­s.” “They dragged me out on to the hallway on top of the stairs. That’s when I saw the gun, clear, like clear as day. I was kind of looking at the gun, looking down back at the stairs,” she said.

In the clip, Kardashian breaks down as she tells sisters Khloé and Kourtney she nearly made a run for it in what could have been a life-ordeath decision.

“I was like, ‘I have a split second in my mind to make this quick decision. Like, am I going to run down the stairs and, like, either be shot in the back?’ ” the mom of two said, bursting into tears.

Ultimately, she didn’t make that desperate bolt for freedom — figuring an elevator wouldn’t immediatel­y open for her or the door to the stairs could be locked.

Kardashian wasn’t physically harmed in the Oct. 3 invasion but she is still shaken by it.

“It makes me so upset to think about it,” the sobbing 36-year-old said. “Either they’re going to shoot me in the back, or if I make it and they don’t, if the elevator does not open in time, or the stairs are locked, then, like, I’m f--ked.”

At one point in the ordeal, Kardashian said she made the conclusion: “There’s no way out.”

Kardashian was staying at the Hôtel de Pourtalès when masked thieves made off with nearly $10 million in jewels, including a massive $4 million diamond ring. She was left tied up and gagged in a bathtub as the robbers got away with her gems.

In January, French police charged 10 people in the earlymorni­ng heist.

The reality-TV star has taken a slightly lower profile since that scary night in Paris. But she is still one of the most hotly followed personalit­ies — with 50.4 million followers on Twitter, the 13th most in the world

Kardashian tweeted a heartwarmi­ng family picture on Monday — of her and sister Kourtney as tots with mom Kris Jenner and their late dad, Robert Kardashian.

Kourtney tweeted on Monday: “I love that my sisters and I stil [sic] get so excited for our premieres thirteen seasons later! #KUWTK.”

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