Kim Kardashian has given evidence to a court in Paris, in the trial of 10 people accused of robbing her at gunpoint in a hotel suite in 2016
Kardashian's voice quivered as she told the court she thought two robbers who came into her room were police officers
She said a gun was held to her back - she thought about running, but realised it "wasn't an option"
"I absolutely did think I was gonna die," she said
After the robbers left, her ankles were tied and she hopped to get help before hiding in bushes on a balcony and calling her mother
All but two of the accused have pleaded not guilty - an emotional Kardashain told one of those who has admitted his guilt: "I forgive you"
Jewels worth millions of dollars were taken, including a $4m (£2.9m) diamond engagement ring from then-husband Kanye West
Kim Kardashian leaves court in Paris after testimony
Laura Gozzi
Reporting from Palais de Justice court in Paris
Shortly before the court paused for a brief break, Aomar Air Khedache wrote a note to Kardashian that was read out by the judge.
He tells her: "Your forgiveness is a sunshine that has enlightened me... I am forever grateful."
Laura Gozzi
Reporting from Palais de Justice court in Paris
Her attention is now directed to Gary Madar, who is accused of being an accessory to the crime.
He is her former driver.
Kardashian, when asked if she wants to say anything to him, says no. He also says no when given the chance to address her.
The judge is calling a break. I'm not sure where Kim Kardashian goes during this - presumably not the vending machine we all flock to.
But as they leave the courtroom, she is escorted out by her security guards, causing a crowd in the doorway.
Laura Gozzi
Reporting from Palais de Justice court in Paris
The judge now moves on to talking about suspect Yunice Abbas, who wrote a book about the heist.
The judge asks him whether he wishes to say anything to Kardashian.
Abbas is a stocky bald man wearing a black t-shirt. He is standing up. Kardashian turns around briefly to look at him.
"Listening to the trauma you really regret your actions... I beg you to accept my apologies," he says, adding: "They are sincere."
The interpreter has whispered all of this in her ear but she doesn't really turn to look at him while he speaks.
Another defendant, Didier Dubreucq, stands up and says it is "a shame what happened to you".
"I don't know what else to say but I feel for your pain".
He is sitting behind Kardashian, so again, she just glances at him briefly before he speaks.
Laura Gozzi
Reporting from Palais de Justice court in Paris
Aomar Ait Khedache and Kim Kardashian are sitting really close to one another.
He is sitting down and she is at the stand and wiping her nose.
The court president asks Kim if she has anything to say to him.
"I am obviously emotional about it - this experience changed my life, my family's life," she answers.
"Back home in the States I work in the justice system and I want so badly to be a lawyer and I fight for people to seek justice," she says.
Kardashian goes on: "I do appreciate the letter for sure. I do appreciate it, I forgive you." She gestures towards him and looks at him.
"But it doesn't change the emotion, the feelings and the trauma and the way my life has changed."
Laura Gozzi
Reporting from Palais de Justice court in Paris
The judge says Aomar Ait Khedache, one of the two defendants who has admitted guilt, wrote her a letter when he was arrested in 2017.
She says she didn't know about this, so the judge reads it.
"Madame, after seeing you in a French TV show and seeing your emotion and realising what psychological harm I did to you, that I decided to write to you.
"Not with the aim of getting forgiveness... I want to tell you human to human how I regret my actions and how I was touched to see you cry... I am sorry for the pain I caused you, your husband, you children and those who love you."
She doesn't look at the defendant, and cries.
The letter continues: "Of course you can't undo the past but I hope this letter will help you forget the trauma you endured because of me."
Laura Gozzi
Reporting from Palais de Justice court in Paris
It's coming up to two hours.
The intensity of the ticking of laptop keyboards has slowed down. It's quite stuffy in here but Kardashian is still patiently answering all questions, intently looking at the interpreter as he retells her words in French, her hands crossed on the stand in front of her.
The judge asks her if this is the first time she's been back in France. She replies, no, she came back for a fashion show of a "dear friend" but only stayed 12 hours as she didn't want to spend the night in Paris.
Laura Gozzi
Reporting from Palais de Justice court in Paris
Judge David De Pas mentions Kim Kardashian's reality TV show Keeping Up With the Kardashians.
He asks: "In one episode you said that you believed that the burglars were a group of people who had been following you your whole trip, and that they 'saw on Snapchat that I was alone'... they had a window of opportunity and they take advantage of it. Do you have any memory of this episode?
"Yes I do remember," Kardashian answers. "I think I was trying to figure out how they'd know I was there.
"But I went back and watched the Snapchat and that was not the same night of this; it was the night before. She says she was staying in to get a spray tan, "because the next morning I was going to the Balenciaga show and I was wearing no make up and wanted to wear fake tan.
"So I think the media got confused and posted that Snapchat as if it was the same night."
Laura Gozzi
Reporting from Palais de Justice court in Paris
Kardashian says investigators told her at one point that the robbers had been thinking about organising a heist on her but were scared because her ex-husband, rapper Kanye West, was there.
They had to reschedule for when she was alone, she says.
The judge asks if she thinks information that wasn't public could've been passed on to the burglars.
She says she thinks they could "probably" see into the room as it was only one storey up, "but they have to have been told I didn't go out to the club."
This is one of the big contentious points of this trial: how did the burglars know she was alone that night, with no bodyguard or sisters?
Kardashian says she thinks someone could've just staked out the hotel and seen what cars were coming and going.
Laura Gozzi
Reporting from Palais de Justice court in Paris
The court is now looking at Kardashian's statement. In it, she says she was scared that the robbers might come back.
"I'm not sure, it was just an instinct," she says, adding that she hadn't been through something like this before, so didn't know if they would come back, "maybe to kill us so there were no witnesses."
"I didn't want to take any chances, so I wanted to hide," she says.
Kardashian is then asked about her reaction when she was shown pictures of the suspects by French investigators.
She says she was a bit surprised that they were older. "I thought they were younger," she says.
As a reminder, many of the suspects are now in their 70s and have significant health issues.
Laura Gozzi
Reporting from Palais de Justice court in Paris
Now that Kim Kardashian has been up for almost an hour, she seems to be relaxing a bit - her voice is slightly louder as she gives a detailed account of how she watched the two burglars argue in French - and gesticulates frequently to make her point.
She seems more sure of herself than she was at the start, where she seemed intimidated by the court and properly shaken up by having to retell her trauma.
Kardashian says she looked in the eyes of the guy tying her up so she could "get details" in case she made it out.
But she tells the court: "I thought about my family and other things and that all went out the door."
She says the guy who tied her up saw how frantic she was and came up to her to try to calm her down and let her know she would be OK if she stayed quiet.
Laura Gozzi
Reporting from Palais de Justice court in Paris
Kim Kardashian is now going through her movements from that day: the people she had dinner with, the Givenchy show she attended.
She can't be more than two metres away from Aomar Ait Khedache - who is deaf and mute - and who is alleged to be one of the two men who wielded a gun in Kim's face during the heist.
Yunice Abbas, who wrote the book "I Held Up Kim Kardashian", is right behind her. She hasn't ever looked at any of the defendants, and has instead quite studiously stared straight ahead at the judges the whole time.
Laura Gozzi
Reporting from Palais de Justice court in Paris
Kardashian says she started to get a "phobia of going out", because she thought people would "see me out and know my home was empty".
"So I can't even sleep at night if I know there's not multiple security" guards, she says.
The judge is now reading out parts of Kardashian's statement.
Laura Gozzi
Reporting from Palais de Justice court in Paris
Kardashian is now being asked questions by the judge. She confirms that Pascal Duvier was her usual bodyguard.
"How come he wasn't there," asks the presiding judge, David de Pas.
"At that time, that was all the security that we would travel with. We assumed hotels were safe and secure," says Kardashian.
"Every time we travelled they [the bodyguards] would stay in a different hotel and when we were in ours they'd travel back to theirs."
That's obviously a gigantic difference to how she travels now. There are four stocky men dressed entirely in black and wearing headsets in my line of sight alone.
The heist "changed everything for us", she says. "We never thought we were never not safe before this."
Laura Gozzi
Reporting from Palais de Justice court in Paris
Kardashian and stylist Simone Harouche ran out on the balcony and hid in the bushes.
"I remember calling my mum from the bushes to let her know what happened and then I think while we were waiting for my security to come Simone and I were trying to come up with a plan - if they come back should we just jump out the window?"
But her security and sister Kourtney arrived and ran in and then the police arrived.
Kardashian was confused because she didn't know if she could trust that these were the real police.
They gave statements to the authorities and then left for New York.
The judge asks her whether she can tell the court what she felt when she was interviewed by police.
"In a state of shock honestly - wondering who I can trust, what if one of them is dressed like police but is really in on it?"
Laura Gozzi
Reporting from Palais de Justice court in Paris
Kardashian says the intruder then picked her up and put her on the floor in the bathroom.
She thought it felt like he hesitated to put her in the bath, then "kinda dropped me on the floor as if something was frantic and they had to get out quickly."
"Then I waited a few minutes - I wasn't sure if they were gonna get something and come back - but after a few mins I didn't hear anything" so she began to free herself.
She rubbed the zip ties around her wrists on the tap to untie herself.
Her ankles were still tied at that point, and she had tape on her mouth.
"I was able to get the ... tape off and then I popped down to find Simone [her stylist]" who then helped her get the remaining zip ties off.
She describes having to hop over to her. Earlier, we heard the stylist tell the court Kardashian hopped into her room with her ankles bound.
Laura Gozzi
Reporting from Palais de Justice court in Paris
She's asked by the court's presiding judge: "That night you thought you would die?"
Kardashian says quietly: "I absolutely did think I was gonna die."
Laura Gozzi
Reporting from Palais de Justice court in Paris
"At that point I was sure that's when they were going to shoot me," says Kardashian. "So I said a prayer for my family and my mom and my sister and best friend."
She added that she thought about the moment they would have to walk into their room: "I hoped they would have an OK life after".
She says she knew her sister Kourtney would be coming home soon, and she feared her sister walking in and finding that "I would be shot dead on the bed and she would see that and have that memory forever."
Laura Gozzi
Reporting from Palais de Justice court in Paris
Kardashian says she was thrown on the bed and her hands were bound together with zip ties.
She told the concierge to "please translate to them that I have babies, I have to make it home."
Her voice goes more high pitched as she says this.
One of the robbers leaned in and told her she would be OK, she says. Kardashian is wiping tears away as she says this.
She says one of the men pulled her towards him.
Kardashian says that she was naked underneath her robe, which opened "and exposes everything on my body.
"I'm certain that's the moment he rapes me. I say a prayer to mentally prepare myself," she says, but instead her legs were tied together and a gun was held up to her.
Laura Gozzi
Reporting from Palais de Justice court in Paris
She says that when the stomping got louder she grabbed her phone to call her bodyguard. At that point, someone snatched her phone. She says she heard them speaking French "and I saw a gun".
"They picked me up off the bed and and grabbed me and took me down the hallway to look for more jewellery, more stuff."
Kardashian is looking very focused as she relays this. She says they took her to another room looking for jewellery and that's when she saw the gun more clearly.
One of the men had the gun to her back.
"That was the first moment I thought should I run for it? But it wasn't an option so I just stayed - and that's the moment I realised I should just do whatever they say."
Laura Gozzi
Reporting from Palais de Justice court in Paris
As the interpreter speaks, Kardashian looks ahead at the judges, fidgeting still with her long nails.
She describes that the robbers came into her room, repeatedly asking for the "ring".
"I was still in such shock, because honestly a lot of terrorist attacks were going on in the world and me and my friends were talking about what was going on in the world and... I didn't get what was happening and I didn't get it was about my jewellery, even though they specifically asked for my ring."
She goes on: "The gentleman found the ring that was next to my bed."
She is interrupted by the court judge, who asked whether she pointed it to him or he found it.
"He found it himself, it was sitting right there," she says.
She remembers specifically the man who took the ring as he was shorter than the others.
"The taller one was looking through my stuff and had found the jewellery box, and he said: 'aha, aha!' - excited and grateful that he found more jewellery."