Rob Kardashian testifies he feared for his life when Blac Chyna put gun to his head

Rob Kardashian testified Wednesday that he feared for his life on an evening in 2016 when his then-fiancée Blac Chyna pointed a gun at his head, pulled a phone-charging cable round his neck and repeatedly hit him with a steel rod whereas underneath the affect of drugs.

“She strangled me, she put a gun to my head twice, she was on cocaine and alcohol,” Kardashian stated, his voice rising almost to a shout in a Los Angeles courtroom as Chyna’s legal professional Lynne Ciani sought to forged doubt on the assault and its severity.

Chyna is suing Rob Kardashian’s mom Kris Jenner and sisters Kim Kardashian, Khloe Kardashian and Kylie Jenner, alleging they unfold false reviews of her assaulting him so as to have her “Conserving Up With the Kardashians” spinoff “Rob & Chyna” canceled and spoil her actuality TV profession.

Throughout an emotional and contentious hour on the stand, Rob Kardashian grew offended when Ciani requested him why images and video from the times that adopted didn’t present any marks on him, regardless of his testimony that she had hit him repeatedly with a 6-foot steel rod.

“Did you’ve as a lot as a Band-Assist on you?” the legal professional requested.

“I simply advised you it didn’t depart a mark on my face!” Rob Kardashian stated. “And the gun to my head two totally different occasions in the course of the evening didn’t depart a mark to my temple!”

Kris Jenner and Kim Kardashian watched the testimony from the entrance row of the gallery, and had no seen response.

Chyna testified earlier within the trial that she was by no means violent towards Rob Kardashian.

She stated that on the evening of Dec. 14 and the morning of Dec. 15, 2016, the couple had been celebrating the information that “Rob & Chyna” was getting a second season.

The all-night celebration become a bitter struggle by morning, when he took her telephone and shut himself in a closet, searching for proof of communications with different males, she stated.

She testified that earlier within the night, she had wrapped a phone-charging twine round Rob Kardashian’s neck playfully as a result of he was ignoring her, and picked up a gun he stored round, at all times unloaded, from a nightstand as a joke.

The chain of occasions would result in the tip of the connection, and their present.

Rob Kardashian, 35, the youngest of Kris Jenner’s 4 youngsters with the late Robert Kardashian, has stored a a lot decrease public profile than his mom and sisters. He was principally an offscreen character, and solely sometimes appeared, on the household’s actuality present.

He broke from the sample in 2016, spending a yr within the limelight earlier than it went dangerous. He and Chyna started courting in January, introduced their engagement in April, introduced they have been having a toddler collectively in Might, had their very own actuality present premiere in September, and had a daughter, Dream, in November.

He testified Wednesday that he felt looking back that their love was by no means actual, and that he had been on the “weakest, worst level” in his life when their relationship started.

He stated the coupling was “poisonous” from the beginning, and that she beat him at the least 5 occasions in the course of the yearlong relationship.

“Strangling somebody, beating somebody, that’s not a household,” he stated. “That’s not like to me.”

Rob Kardashian wore a loose-fitting, untucked black gown shirt on the stand. His in any other case darkish testimony drew fun from a lot of the courtroom when Ciani instructed that two movies she confirmed have been shot on the identical day as a result of he was carrying the identical factor.

“That doesn’t imply something,” he stated. “I put on the identical factor each day.”

Rob Kardashian shouldn’t be a defendant on this trial. Chyna’s allegations in opposition to him, stemming from the identical incidents, will get a separate trial when this one is finished.

Earlier Wednesday, Corey Gamble, a key witness backing up Rob Kardashian’s account of the assault, insisted that he noticed Chyna punch him and whip him with a phone-charging twine, as Ciani tried to poke holes in his story.

“I stated that she attacked him,” testified Gamble, the longtime boyfriend and someday co-star of “Conserving Up With the Kardashians” matriarch Kris Jenner. “What I noticed is what I noticed.”

Gamble stated he rushed to the home the couple was staying in after Kris Jenner acquired an early morning name from her son, who sounded deeply distressed.

When he arrived, he stated, Chyna was holding some type of steel rod, and threw it down. She rushed towards Rob Kardashian, whipping the telephone twine at him then punching him.

“By the point she acquired to him, she began hitting him,” Gamble testified. ”I used to be in a position to get in the midst of them two. I even acquired hit two or 3 times.”

Gamble stated Chyna threw a chair at Rob Kardashian’s automotive as he was leaving, then tried to select up a desk however Gamble stopped her.

Throughout cross-examination, Ciani had Gamble learn from a declaration he submitted within the case two years earlier, through which he stated he arrived to search out Chyna hitting Rob Kardashian along with her fists, however made no point out of any of the objects.

“You didn’t see ample to say the steel rod, the twine or the desk?” Ciani requested.

“I don’t know why I didn’t embody these particulars,” Gamble stated.