When something traumatic happens to someone, it might take a while for their mind, and most times their body too, to come back to “normal.” But, depending on what happened, some things can be just permanently changed, forever altered as a result.
For Kim Kardashian, who was robbed at gunpoint in her Paris hotel back in 2016, the effects of that fateful night linger to this day.
“[My therapist] was like, ‘You think calm is your superpower. I think you are so desensitized from trauma that you literally are frozen in fight or flight,'” the SKIMS founder told her sister Khloé in a recent episode of The Kardashians. “So then she was like, ‘One time in life something happened, and you remained calm, and that worked for you. So you will always choose calm.'”
In Kim’s past recollections of the night, she remembers staying calm and obeying the robbers, regardless of the absurd demands they were making.
As it turns out, Khloé totally agrees with the therapist. “You weren’t calm before. Kim, you were a lunatic,” she remembered, noting that small things like touching her clothes used to piss her off. “You became calm.”
“You were never calm as a teenager, in your 20s,” Khloé continued. “You cried about everything. You were bratty. You threw tantrums. Everything stopped after you got robbed because you stayed calm in that situation and you even said, ‘My calmness is what kept me alive.'”
“[It] served me well at that time, and I think it saved my life,” she agreed. “But I think I’ve let it get too calm to where people could take advantage of my calmness or I’m just turning into a full robot with like, no emotion.”
But while Kim continues to work through some of the trauma, and the lingering emotions it left behind, it seems her calmness isn’t the only lasting effect.
Talking about the incident in My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman, Kim admitted to suffering from anxiety surrounding her safety ever since.
“I definitely took a year where I got really paranoid of people knowing my whereabouts,” she said, per Buzzfeed. “I didn’t even want to go to a restaurant, because I thought someone [would] know I’m at this restaurant. They’ll take a picture, they’ll send it, they’ll know my house is open, they’ll know that my kids are there.”
“I was just really scared of everything,” she continued at the time. “I can’t sleep at night unless there’s half a dozen security guards at my house, and that has just become my reality and that’s okay.” Looks like Kim’s life post-robbery has changed in more ways than one.
