Kim Kardashian opens up about the 'challenge' of caring for Kanye West while he battled COVID-19: 'It was so scary and unknown'

• Kim Kardashian West spoke about her experience caring for her husband Kanye West when he had COVID-19.
• “Kanye had it way at the beginning, when nobody really knew what was going on,” the reality star told Grazia USA on Tuesday, adding, “It was so scary and unknown."
• Kardashian West said she changed the rapper's sheets and got him out of bed when he wasn't feeling well.
• "It was a challenge because it was so unknown. Changing his sheets with gloves and a face shield was really a scary time," she said.

Kim Kardashian West spoke about caring for her husband Kanye West after he contracted COVID-19 early in the pandemic.

The reality star, 39, said that West, 43, had the novel coronavirus around the same time as Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson, who were some of the first celebrities to report that they tested positive for the disease.

"Kanye had it way at the beginning, when nobody really knew what was going on," Kardashian West told Grazia USA, which launched its debut issue on Tuesday.

Kardashian West not only looked over her husband, but she also had to juggle watching their four children — North, 7, Saint, 4, Chicago, 2 and Psalm, 1 — on her own.

"It was so scary and unknown. I had my four babies and no one else in the house to help," she recalled.

Because there wasn't much information released about COVID-19 early in the pandemic, Kardashian West said it was "scary" to navigate the situation by herself.

"I had to go and change his sheets and help him get out of bed when he wasn't feeling good. It was a challenge because it was so unknown. Changing his sheets with gloves and a face shield was really a scary time," she said.

West first revealed that he had COVID-19 during a July interview with Forbes. He said he had "chills" and was "shaking in the bed," often "taking hot showers" to warm up.

In an effort to learn how to mitigate the situation, he said he spent time "looking at videos telling me what I'm supposed to do to get over it."

"I remember someone had told me Drake had the coronavirus and my response was Drake can't be sicker than me!" he joked.

Kardashian West has previously spoken about the difficulty of being isolated with four young children during the pandemic.

"Being at home with four kids, if I ever thought for a minute that I wanted another one – that is out," Kardashian said on an episode of "The View" in March.

She added, "It's been tough juggling it all and you really have to put yourself on the back burner and just focus on the kids."

Several days after her interview on "The View," fans got a first-hand look at Kardashian West's life in lockdown with kids.

North crashed her mother's Instagram makeup tutorial. And after asking the 7-year-old to give her some space, Kardashian West admitted that she was "hiding" in her house.

"I'm hiding in the guest room, you guys. I'm hiding in the guest room because my kids will not leave me alone," she said.