Kris Jenner, 71, confronted daughter Kim Kardashian on camera over a passage in Kardashian’s authorized biography that she said left her feeling “insulted.”
The book, “Citizen Kim: The Woman Who Created the Future,” was written by Jonathan Van Meter with Kardashian’s authorization and released Oct. 27. In it, Van Meter speculates that while Kardashian does not believe she experienced “childhood trauma,” she “just doesn’t see it.”
On Thursday’s episode of “The Kardashians,” Jenner said Van Meter was “putting things in a book that are dramatic and will sell books.”
“Tell him you don’t want it to say anything about your childhood trauma because you didn’t have any. I worked really hard at my life and being a mom so nobody had any childhood trauma,” Jenner said.
“You should tell him to take the trauma part out. I’m insulted,” she continued. “You can tell him, for me, that he can f–k off. … That is very offensive to me.”
Kardashian told her mother she would “make that very clear” to Van Meter. Jenner pressed further, saying her legacy rests on her children and that she does not want anyone “interrupting” what she called her truth.
“My truth is: I worked really hard raising you guys, and there was no trauma. The biggest trauma that we had was the day that Toys ‘R Us closed,” Jenner said.
Jenner’s other daughters backed her up on the episode. Khloé Kardashian asked, “Why can’t he take what you say for face value?” Kourtney Kardashian added in a confessional, “I don’t think we had some deep, dark trauma, so I would be pissed too if someone tried to say we did.”
Van Meter, who spent six years shadowing Kim Kardashian and interviewing people close to her for the book, told The Hollywood Reporter last month that Jenner had “flip[ped] out on camera” over the project.
“She was yelling, ‘Why did Kim drag us all into this? Why is my affair from 30 years ago in the book?'” Van Meter told the outlet, adding that “Two days later, Kris was fine. But it’s going to be on the show.”
During the episode, Jenner also objected to the biography project itself, calling Kim “insane” for having “given [their] rights to [their] lives away to some stranger.”
“You’re giving him access to your entire life, and to our lives. That, you know, is ridiculous. … Why give someone that access?” Jenner said.
Kim Kardashian defended her decision to cooperate with the book, saying she “stood behind” the project because “there is so much misinformation out there and so much bad information, why wouldn’t we want someone that’s so smart and so genuine and so great to write a great book that’s super interesting and factual and great?”
