Kim Kardashian testified that she had no memory of making any attempt to kill Rob Kardashian and Blac Chyna’s reality show. But she acknowledged demanding that Chyna be kept off of #KUWTK after hearing Chyna had abused her brother. lat.ms/3rTMMsu
“I will not go into a toxic work environment,” Kardashian said of her refusal to work with Chyna. “On my own show, I have the power to do that.” lat.ms/3rTMMsu
Yesterday, Kylie Jenner testified that she expressed concerns to brother Rob Kardashian about dating Blac Chyna over rumors of alleged substance abuse and violence. lat.ms/3rSUVgK
Today, Kardashian took the stand for an hour in an L.A. courtroom in a civil trial in which Chyna alleges that the reality star and three other members of her family defamed Chyna and convinced producers and the E! network to cancel “Rob & Chyna.” lat.ms/3MAPKds
Chyna’s attorney showed Kardashian a series of texts from late 2016 and early 2017 with Kardashian’s name attached. In every case, Kardashian said she had no memory of sending them, though she didn’t deny their likely legitimacy. lat.ms/3rTMMsu
“I don’t remember text messages that I sent this morning,” she said. lat.ms/3rTMMsu
One text exchange includes several seemingly damning demands surrounding Chyna being filmed for “her” show, but Kardashian insisted that was a quirk of technology: “This is clearly voice-dictated, as is everything I text that’s so long.” lat.ms/3rTMMsu
“It’s sometimes rendering ‘our’ as ‘her,’” Kardashian testified. “I would never refer to her show as ‘her’ show, I would say ‘Rob’s show’ since it’s a spin-off of ‘Keeping Up With the Kardashians.’” lat.ms/3rTMMsu
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