KIM Kardashian has been accused of making a death row inmate’s execution “all about herself” in an interview with Van Jones.
The criminal justice reform advocate opened up about one of her experiences with the now executed Brandon Bernard, before turning the story around about how she was “crying” at a “SKIMS fitting”.
Talking to Van Jones‘ Uncommon Ground podcast, Kim, 41, said: “I remember crying and feeling so helpless, cause it was his last phone call, and he was telling me, ‘don’t cry, it’s gonna be ok.’”
“Hearing that he was worried that he would be claustrophobic in the chair, and then on his last call, when he was in the execution room, he said ‘please tell Kim I’m not claustrophobic, it’s okay.’”
Kim then told Van how the news of Brandon’s death affected her.
“If only someone could see my day, I’m like hysterically crying, calling every governor that I could possibly imagine trying to stop someone’s execution, and then I have to run into, you know, a SKIMS fitting, and I’m fitting and I’m crying, and I can’t really get my work done. It was just such a whirlwind of a day.”
Fans on Reddit were scathing about Kim’s “insensitive” story.
One wrote: “So on his last phone call before being executed Brandon Bernard was the one to console Kim instead of the other way around…”
Another agreed: “Thought it was incredibly insensitive to basically say, this person was on the chair, actually executed and I had other things to do.
“I get she was talking about her day, but it circles back to her privilege and she couldn’t even devote her full attention to someone literally being executed in the same moment while saying she was attempting to help him.”
A third ranted: “She’s so self-absorbed, it’s incomprehensible.”
Brandon Bernard was a federal prisoner who was convicted of murdering two youth ministers and torching their bodies more than two decades ago.
The 40-year-old inmate, who was just 18 years old at the time of the crime, was put to death on December 10 2020 after spending 20 years on death row.
Kim, who has secured the release of dozens of prisoners, asked her 67.7million followers to back the campaign to stop Bernard’s execution.
She called on then-president Donald Trump for Bernard to serve a life sentence rather than be put to death.
On the day of his death, she tweeted: “1 hour until Brandon Bernard will be executed.
“It’s Human Rights Day and here in the United States we are executing someone who was 18 at the time of the crime, was not the shooter, and has rehabilitated himself.”
She concluded: “So shameful.”
After the execution, she opened up about the “hardest call” she’s ever made in her Instagram Stories.
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While Kim Kardashian has yet to officially become a lawyer, the reality star passed the baby bar exam in December of 2021.
A documentary, The First Step, showed how Kim and Van joined forces three years ahead of their 2018 meeting with Donald Trump to discuss prison reform.
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