‘Do not talk to me about that in front of my kids,’ the reality star directly addressed paparazzi
Kim Kardashian has hit back at paparazzi after she was asked about an alleged battery incident involving Kanye West in front of her children.
On Friday (28 January), the 42-year-old reality star was seen leaving her daughter North West’s basketball game alongside the nine-year-old and her seven-year-old son, Saint West. As Kardashian was seen walking her children to their car, a paparazzo was heard asking the mother of four about an alleged incident in which Kanye West was accused of grabbing and throwing a woman’s phone.
“Hey Kim, what do you think of Kanye hitting someone…. The
paparazzi’s phone?” the cameraman can be heard saying in a video obtained by
Page Six.
The SKIMS founder then turns to the man and says
directly, “Do not talk to me about that in front of my kids,” prompting the
photographer to apologise to her.
In the clip, one of
Kardashian’s children can also be heard shouting, “Please leave!”
Kanye
West – who legally changed his name to Ye – was named suspect in a battery
investigation on Friday after he was filmed during a heated exchange with a
photographer, in which he eventually grabbed and threw the woman’s phone,
according to TMZ.
The video shows West accusing the woman of following him, to
which she responds that he’s a “celebrity” as she continues to record him.
He then reaches into her car and grabs the woman’s phone, throwing it into
the street before hopping into an SUV with his new wife, Bianca Censori.
A
law enforcement source told TMZ that officials from the Ventura County
Sheriff’s Department were called to the scene around 4:30pm and were
provided video evidence of the incident. It’s unclear whether the woman was
a member of the paparazzi or a civilian who recognised the star.
Kardashian has prioritised protecting her children amidst her
divorce from Kanye West, which was finalised in November 2022, and his
subsequent public downfall.
The former couple began dating in
2012 and welcomed daughter North in 2013. The two were married during a
lavish Italian wedding ceremony in 2014, and went on to welcome three more
children: Saint, seven, Chicago, five, and Psalm, three.
Following
their separation in 2021, West has often made details surrounding his
relationship with Kardashian public, including their custody agreement and
attacking her former boyfriend Pete Davidson on social media. Since then,
West has sparked outrage after he made several antisemitic remarks, causing
him to be dropped by his talent agency and multiple fashion brands over
“hateful and dangerous” comments relating to Jewish people.
In December 2022, Kardashian described co-parenting with West
as “f***ing hard” during an episode of the Angie Martinez IRL podcast.
“I
had the best dad, and I had the best memories and the greatest experience
and that’s all I want for my kids as long as they can have that,” Kardashian
said. “That’s what I would want for them. If they don’t know the things that
are being said or what’s happening in the world, why would I ever bring that
energy to them? That’s really heavy grown-up s*** that they’re not ready to
deal with.”
Kardashian added that she’ll be “prepared” for the
day her children ask her about the controversy surrounding their
father.
“One day my kids will thank me for sitting here and not bashing
their dad when I could,” she told host Angie Martinez. “All the crazy s***.
They’ll thank me and I’ll privately answer anything that they want to know.
It’s not my place anymore to jump in.”
However, The Kardashians
star admitted that she’s “holding on by a thread”.
“I definitely
protected [Ye] and I still will in the eyes of my kids for my kids,” she
said. “In my home, my kids don’t know anything that goes on in the outside
world… I’m holding on by a thread. I know I’m so close to that not
happening. While that’s still happening, I will protect that to the ends of
the earth as long as I can.”
