Kim Kardashian West the star is now also the reformer

NEW YORK — As Kim Kardashian West put it to her 60 millionplus followers on Twitter, the call she made to Alice Marie Johnson “will forever be one of my best memories.”

It was the reality star and makeup mogul who brought the 63-year-old Johnson first word of her freedom after more than two decades in federal prison on 1996 drug convictions related to a Memphis-based cocaine trafficking operation.

Johnson wasn't eligible for parole, but the TV star met with the former reality TV boss, President Donald Trump, in the Oval Office after learning of Johnson's plight online. Soon after, Trump commuted her sentence — and the tears flowed.

“Telling her for the first time and hearing her screams while crying together is a moment I will never forget,” offered Kardashian West, long a social media influencer with a legion of dedicated supporters.

Kardashian West has expanded her reach in ways some might have thought unlikely. Johnson's release Wednesday came two days after Kardashian West accepted an influencer award from the Council of Fashion Designers of America before a starstudded crowd, joking she considered the honor ironic “since I'm naked most of the time.”

With the help of her attorney, Shawn Holley, and Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, Kardashian West has been hailed as a hero for pushing hard in Johnson's case. There seems to be no downside, for herself or the president, observers said. Kardashian West, they said, could have easily done nothing.

“I think that it's great she's using her influence in this way,” said Ashley Edwards, senior news and politics editor at the millennial focused lifestyle site Refinery29. “I'm not sure if there's anything she can't do with the amount of clout she has.”