LOS ANGELES — A smashed gingerbread home, a phone cord wrapped around the neck and a gun grabbed from a nightstand have been on the heart of disputed testimony Wednesday in a trial over former actuality tv star Blac Chyna’s lawsuit towards the Kardashian household.
During all-day testimony in a Los Angeles courtroom, Chyna mentioned she wrapped the charging cord around her then-fiancé Rob Kardashian’s neck and grabbed his always-unloaded gun in jest on a night in 2016 when the 2 have been celebrating the renewal of their actuality present, “Rob & Chyna.” She mentioned she later bought justifiably indignant when their all-night celebration went bitter due to his jealous accusations.
“I smashed a gingerbread house, because I was really upset,” she mentioned. “Then I damaged a TV.”
The lawyer for the 4 Kardashian girls who’re defendants within the case solid all of the occasions as shows of anger and aggression that made them frightened for his or her son and brother.
“You’re saying to the jury that you stood behind him with a phone cord and wrapped it around his neck, and that was a joke?” lawyer Michael G. Rhodes mentioned.
“Yes,” answered Chyna, who typically remained composed beneath heated questioning.
He later requested, “Grabbing a gun is funny?”
“It was a joke,” she mentioned.
“To you,” Rhodes replied.
“To him too,” Chyna mentioned.
In her $100 million lawsuit, Chyna alleges that Kardashian’s mom, Kris Jenner, and her daughters Kim Kardashian, Khloe Kardashian and Kylie Jenner, who watched the testimony in court docket, mispresented the occasions of Dec. 14 and 15, 2016, to get her present canceled and spoil her TV profession.
Chyna and Rob Kardashian had begun courting in January 2016, bought engaged in April, and in November had a daughter and started the present collectively.
Under questioning from her personal lawyer, Lynne Ciani, Chyna described the gleeful celebration they’d on Dec. 14 when the “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” spinoff was greenlighted for a second season.
“It was exciting, we were throwing money and having fun, being silly,” Chyna mentioned. Footage shot for the present of the money-throwing scene was proven in court docket.
She testified that she ripped Rob Kardashian’s shirt, “from us like playing and trying to not be sexy and take the shirt off, but just doing silly stuff with my fiancé.”
Later, he was taking part in video video games and ignoring her when she wrapped the cord around his neck, she mentioned.
“I came up behind him, doing that jokingly,” she testified, “to get his attention.”
Later, when Rob Kardashian was having a FaceTime dialog within the bed room, she entered and picked up his gun.
Asked by the protection lawyer Rhodes, “What on earth possesses you to grab a gun?” she replied, “He was already messing with it, that’s why I grabbed it, I was being funny while he was on FaceTime with his friends.”
Neither slept that night, Chyna testified.
Rob Kardashian was vulnerable to bouts of jealousy, she mentioned. His doubts about being the daddy of their new child daughter, Dream, led to a paternity take a look at that was filmed for the present.
She testified that on the morning of the fifteenth, he grabbed her phone, shut himself in a closet and looked for indicators of communication with different males.
Chyna mentioned she couldn’t deal with the accusations and unfair scrutiny anymore.
“In the past there had been a cycle of him taking my phone and posting things from it, and I was really getting sick of it,” she mentioned.
She then smashed the gingerbread home and TV, however pressed by the protection, she denied she ever went past broken property.
“Your testimony under oath is that not one time that whole day, did you hit him?” Rhodes requested, his voice rising to a shout.
“Nope,” Chyna mentioned.
“Not one time that whole day?”
“Nope,” she mentioned.
Chyna testified that she moved out of the home that day.
Rhodes mentioned in his opening assertion Tuesday that the connection ended then, and that was why the producers on the E! community canceled the present that was all about that relationship.
Chyna’s lawsuit alleges the cancellation got here from Kris Jenner telling the individuals with energy over the present that Chyna had bodily abused her son, and enlisting her daughters to do the identical.
Rhodes recommended Wednesday that she filed the lawsuit to boost her personal celeb.
“Is this trial a publicity stunt?” he requested.
“No, not at all,” Chyna mentioned.
“But your career benefits from the attention that you get because of this trial,” Rhodes mentioned.
“No, not at all,” she replied, “it’s actually been very negative.”