Kris Jenner publicly confronted her daughter Kim Kardashian on Thursday’s episode of “The Kardashians” over a passage in Kim’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 approval and released Oct. 27. In it, Van Meter speculates that while Kim does not believe she has “childhood trauma,” she “just doesn’t see it.”
Jenner, 71, rejected that framing on camera, accusing the author of inventing drama to boost sales.
“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. You can tell him, for me, that he can f–k off. … That is very offensive to me.”
Kim said she would “make that very clear” to Van Meter. Jenner continued to press the point, tying it to how she wants her life’s work to be remembered.
“My legacy is my children, so I don’t want anybody interrupting what my truth is,” Jenner said. “And 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.”
Her other daughters backed her up on the episode. Khloé Kardashian asked, “Why can’t he take what you say for face value?” Kourtney Kardashian said 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 spent six years on the book, shadowing Kim and interviewing people close to her. He told The Hollywood Reporter last month that Jenner had reacted strongly on camera to the project overall.
“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, “Two days later, Kris was fine. But it’s going to be on the show.”
On the episode, Jenner also questioned why Kim pursued the biography in the first place, calling it “insane” that she would hand over “rights to our lives” to an outside writer.
“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 defended her decision to cooperate with the book, saying she wanted an accurate account rather than rumor.
“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?” Kim said.
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