As the ongoing Kardashian-Jenner defamation trial continues, Kim Kardashian, 41, just denied ever trying to ruin Blac Chyna‘s career in court on April 26th, although an incriminating text shown to jurors (that she had sent to producers in the past) might suggest otherwise.
Chyna (real name Angela Renée White) was previously engaged to Rob Kardashian and the two share daughter Dream Kardashian, 5. She filed a $100-million lawsuit in 2017 that accused members of the Kardashian family of defamation and contract interference. The model and reality star, 33, claims that Kim Kardashian, Khloé Kardashian, Kris Jenner and Kylie Jenner conspired together to “kill” the second season of her and her ex’s show, Rob & Chyna that had aired for one season in 2016 on E! She also alleges that the family promoted false claims that she had physically abused Rob during a fight on December 15, 2016 while their newborn child was in the same home.
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On the sixth day of the trial, Kim testified that she never threatened to stop filming her own show if a second season of Rob & Chyna was filmed, like a text from her shown to jurors might propose. One text sent from Kim to her producers contained multiple spelling errors, which Kim testified was due to using a voice-dictation setting on her phone (where one speaks into the device and it prepares a written text message). “Anytime I write something long, it’s voice-dictated,” she testified.
Chyna’s lawyer, Lynne Ciani, read aloud Kim’s March 2017 text to producers; “OK, I don’t know what to do at this point but the level of disrespect is just unreal. Chyna told everyone that she’s on her show and she went to go get Dream’s ears pierced with Rob on camera today. We specifically all had a talk about this and said Chyna can never be on her show.”
The text continued: “I think we all need to take a break from filming for a while until you guys figure out what you’re going to do because Chyna will not be on our show. And it actually puts my brother in a bad position. He ends up crying all day, saying the only reason she showed up was because she’s filming. So I think we just really all need a break from filming to wrap our heads around, do we want to be on a show that Chyna’s on, because you know we don’t.”
In its final line, Kim’s text concluded that if producers continued to film with Rob and Chyna, “then you’re going to lose the rest of the Kardashians and Jenners.” After this was read to jurors, Kim testified that she did not remember sending the message, but that, if she did, her phone and the setting she was using led to her being misquoted.
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“In this text, you’re saying that you already got Chyna off of her show, and now you didn’t want her coming on Keeping Up With the Kardashians any longer,” Ciani said. “No, that’s not what I’m saying,” the Skims founder replied. “Nothing says anything about me getting her off of her show. This is clearly voice-dictated. I think the ‘her,’ where it says, ‘Chyna told everyone that she’s on her show,’ it would be, ‘She’s on our show.’” The beauty mogul then said that this same error occurred in another line: “Chyna can never be on her show,” as she meant to write, “Chyna can never be on our show.”
“Again, it would be ‘our show,’ because I would never refer to her show as her show,” the aspiring lawyer testified. “I would say Rob’s show, since it’s a spin-off of a Kardashian show. So, I’m just saying, when I read this over, what this means and what I was saying is, ‘Hey, this is our show. We have the discretion of what we are going to film content-wise on our show if it has to do with any of us on the episode. So why would you put my brother in a bad situation if he’s going to be calling us crying, saying, ‘She’s only showing up to film,’ and she doesn’t want to hang out with him and try anything else to make the relationship work, but just show up to film? Why would we put him in that situation if this is our show? It’s not the Rob & Chyna show. We can’t control what content they film. We can control what’s on Keeping Up With the Kardashians. Why would we film with her? That makes complete sense to me.”
And it doesn’t stop there— Chyna is also suing Rob for “revenge porn” after he posted naked photos of her on the internet without her consent in July 2017. That claim was severed from the defamation trial and is due to go before a jury next month, as reported by Rolling Stone.
