Blac Chyna testified she was 'just being silly' when she choked Rob Kardashian with an iPhone cord and pointed a gun at him.Kris Jenner made up violent incidents to get "Rob & Chyna" cancelled, Chyna's lawyer alleges.
Blac Chyna wants to be perfectly clear about that time when she wrapped an iPhone cord around fiancee Rob Kardashian's neck.
They were "just being silly" while celebrating the greenlighting of Season 2 of "Rob & Chyna," she told a Los Angeles jury on Wednesday, recounting the incident from 2016.
And as for that other moment of togetherness, on FaceTime, when she pointed Kardashian's gun at him and said, "If he ever leaves me, I'll get him?"
"We were being silly," she explained again to jurors. "He thought it was funny," she said of Rob Kardashian.
The exotic dancer-turned-model took the stand as the first witness in her lawsuit against the
Chyna, whose legal name is Angela White, is seeking $100 million in damages from the Kardashian-Jenners. She claims they unfairly trash talked her to
Much of Wednesday was spent debunking that supposed trash talk, including that Chyna was physically abusive to her fiance.
Rob Kardashian was "so sweet," she told jurors, who she faced dressed in black business attire in a downtown LA courtroom.
"He loved Kingy," she said of his warm connection to her son by rapper Tyga. "They were so funny together" as the relationship progressed, she said.
Family matriarch Kris Jenner was instrumental in putting together the "Rob & Chyna" deal with E! executives, Chyna said.
Jenner even negotiating an $11,700 per-appearance fee for King, and a $5,850 per-appearance fee for Dream, Rob Kardashian and Blac China's own child together, and whose birth via C-section had, naturally, been televised.
Chyna said she would confide with Jenner about Rob Kardashian's depression and jealousy, and about how "he would take my phone" and ask about old messages from male friends.
Jenner was so intent on sinking "Rob & Chyna," that she messaged E! Network executives and producers in December, 2016, urging they "ditch the bitch," lawyer Lynne Ciani had told jurors in openings on Tuesday.
"Kris Jenner set out to have 'Rob & Chyna' cancelled," Ciani said. "And she brought in her three daughters to help accomplish that."
The Kardashian family's lawyer countered that since splitting with Rob Kardashian, Chyna has continued to clutch desperately at the family's money and spotlight.
"The evidence is going to show you that Miss White would say or do anything to be part of this family," the lawyer, Michael G. Rhodes, said in openings.
But the real reason "Rob & Chyna" was cancelled by the E! Network was that the couple had split up, he told jurors.
"There is no 'Rob & Chyna' show if there is no Rob and Chyna," he said.
Meanwhile, Chyna's mother, who calls herself "Tokyo Toni," has launched on Instagram what amounts to her own spin-off courtroom reality show.
Toni has so far been banned from the courtroom for a Monday post "threatening" Kris Jenner and investigated by the FBI after saying "I'm gonna get that judge" in a livestream on Tuesday, according to PageSix.
Toni defended the remark as "comedy."
Chyna and Rob's relationship was tumultuous
Blac Chyna and Rob began dating in January 2016. Late that month, Entertainment Tonight reported that the Kardashian-Jenner family was concerned about their relationship, citing an anonymous source close to Rob. The source said that the family worried Chyna was "doing this for attention," particularly given her ties to the family: at the time, Chyna's ex Tyga, with whom she shares 9-year-old son King Cairo, was dating
In court, however, Chyna said that Rob pursued her and that she didn't immediately reply to him, E! reported. According to the outlet, Chyna testified that she became "disconnected" from the family when Kylie and Tyga began dating, and that Kim, who she previously had been "cool" with, told her that they could no longer be friends due to the relationship. Chyna also said that she questioned Rob's intentions, given that she and Kim weren't speaking at the time.
The couple were engaged in April 2016, and Chyna announced a month later that she was pregnant with their first child Dream Renée Kardashian, whom she gave birth to in November 2016.
The couple's series "Rob & Chyna," which lies at the center of the ongoing trial, was first announced in June 2016. However, Entertainment Tonight reported in March 2017 that the show had been put on hold following the couple's reported breakup in February 2017, though a spokesperson for E! said that the network was "covering Rob and his relationship with Chyna."
Following a public incident in July 2017 in which Rob posted sexually explicitly images of Chyna on Instagram and Twitter, Chyna was granted a temporary restraining order against her former fiancé, Insider previously reported. A spokesperson for E! told Variety that month that "Rob & Chyna" had not been in production for "several months" and was not on the network's schedule.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.