- Kim Kardashian said she was "so happy" that she was robbed in Paris.
- In 2016, robbers held her at gunpoint in a hotel, restraining her and stealing her jewelry.
Kim Kardashian said that she was ultimately grateful for the 2016 incident in which she was robbed at gunpoint in a Paris hotel because the incident taught her a "lesson" about material possessions.
In a recent episode of radio host Angie Martinez's podcast "In Real Life," Kardashian said that clothing, cars, and other material possessions were previously the means through which she "valued my importance."
The 2016 robbery, however, changed her perspective.
"After I was robbed of all of it in Paris, I didn't know I was needing that lesson, but that lesson was so well-received," she told Martinez.
"When all my jewelry and stuff was taken from me, like, I don't, I just truly don't care about stuff like that," Kardashian said. "I want what feels good. I want, if it's a memory, I'll hold on to that. But if it was taken again, it wouldn't affect me."
The Hollywood Reporter reported in 2016 that Kardashian was held at gunpoint and restrained in the bathroom of her hotel room in Paris during the incident, which took place that October. The thieves left the hotel with approximately $11 million in jewelry, per The Hollywood Reporter, and Kardashian told David Letterman in 2020 that she feared at the time that she was going to be raped or killed.
Kardashian told Martinez, however, that she was ultimately "so happy" that she had gone through the incident. Now, she said, should she have to evacuate her Calabasas home in the case of a fire, she would simply leave with her children rather than attempting to gather her possessions.
"Things are now just for fun for me, but the lesson of having it all taken from me really made me understand that like, all of this stuff doesn't matter," she said. "All of this stuff can be taken from you. It doesn't go with you."