Kim Recalls Steeling Herself to Be Sexually Assaulted

Kim further recounted her experience to David Letterman on an episode of My Next Guest Needs No Introduction that dropped in October 2020.

Two masked men “were yelling at me in French and I just sat up, and they kept on saying ‘The ring, the ring,’ and I was just so startled,” Kim said. She eventually realized he was referring to her engagement ring, which she’d placed by the bed. “So I handed him my ring and he grabbed me, and I was wearing a robe and I wasn’t wearing anything under it.”

Blinking back tears, Kim added, “I don’t want to ruin my makeup.”

“He grabbed me and pulled me towards him,” Kim continued. “But I wasn’t wearing anything underneath, so I was like, ‘Okay, this is the time, I’m going to get raped, like, just deal, it’s gonna happen, like, just prepare yourself.’ So I did, and then—I don’t know why I’m crying, I’ve talked about this before—but then he tied me up with handcuffs and zip ties, and then duct tape, and then duct-taped my mouth and my eyes.”

Before he covered her eyes, Kim said, “I saw he found my whole jewelry box and held it up, like, ‘Aha!’ you know, like, ‘We got it.’ But I kept on looking at the concierge [who’d been forced to unlock her door at gunpoint] because I didn’t know who he was, and I’m like, ‘What is happening? Are we going to die? Just tell them I have children, I have babies, I have a husband, I have a family, like I have to get home! Tell them to take anything, I’ll never say I saw them, like, take everything!’”