Kim Kardashian Traces Her Fight-or-Flight Trauma Response to Paris Robbery

Going to therapy has begun helping Kim Kardashian process and reflect on critical experiences she's had throughout her life. But in an exclusive clip from an upcoming episode of The Kardashiansthat premiered July 18, a particularly profound revelation about her lingering trauma from the robbery comes not from a conversation not with her therapist but with her sister Khloé.

Onstage, Kim recalls her therapist telling her, “You think calmness is your superpower. I think you are so desensitized by the trauma that you are literally frozen in fight or flight. Once in your life, something happened and you stayed calm — and it worked for you, so you'll always choose calm.” In an effort to identify what that moment might have been, Kim says, the therapist encouraged her to look back at her childhood.

But Khloé's mind immediately flashes back to October 2016, when Kim was robbed at gunpoint at the hotel she was staying at during Paris Fashion Week. “You weren't calm before,” she told her older sister. “Do not you remember it; Kim, you were crazy… You were never calm as a teenager [or] in your twenties. You cried about everything, you were crazy, you threw tantrums.''

Kim has previously described the robbery as “one of the most important life-changing experiences of my life”. Multiple armed robbers, dressed as police, forced their way into her room before tying her up and stealing $10 million worth of jewelry. In the months since it happened, Kim has been more vocal about the incident. She tearfully recalled discussing running the risk of being shot in the back and being “fully mentally prepared” for men to sexually assault her.

“Everything stopped after you were robbed because you stayed calm in that situation,” Khloé tells her in the clip. “And you even said, 'my calmness is what kept me alive.' Then it started. It doesn't take a detective to figure that out.”