Kanye West surprised fans during his performance at the very first Meadows Festival in New York Sunday night (Oct. 2) when he suddenly stopped the show and told the crowd he had a “family emergency” and then he walked off.
He was in the middle of performing “Heartless” when he made the announcement. “I’m sorry, family emergency,” he told the crowd. “I have to stop the show.”
Well it turns out the family emergency was indeed big.
“Kim Kardashian West was held up at gunpoint inside her Paris hotel room,” a spokesperson for Kim said in a statement.
“She is badly shaken but physically unharmed.”
Five men in ski masks and police jackets were involved in the robbery about 3 a.m. local time Monday, Reuters reports.
Two men entered her room at ‘No Address Hotel,’ bound Kardashian’s hands and feet with tape then locked her in the bathroom before stealing a jewelry box worth $6.7 million in jewelry and a ring worth $4 million, police sources shared.
Her purse, two cell phones and 1,000 euros were also taken, police sources shared.
Kardashian was gagged and bound at her hands and feet, then handcuffed and held at gunpoint, according to E! News. After the men left with “all her jewelry,” Kardashian “broke out of her bindings and got out.”
“She begged for them to let her live and [said] she has babies at home. Then they wrapped her mouth in tape and put her in the bathtub,” a source told E!.
The men were able to gain access to Kardashian’s private apartment after five men threatened the apartment building’s concierge with a weapon, handcuffed him and forced him to open the private apartment, says The French Interior Ministry, according to CNN. Two of the men were able to gain entry and a gun was held to her head, according to the Paris prosecutor’s office.
Sources tell PEOPLE magazine that Kim left her hotel in two vans with a police escort after she gave her statement to investigators.
The convoy blew through red lights in Paris en route to the airport, where a private jet was waiting to take Kim back to the U.S.
Kim was overseas for Paris Fashion Week along with her mother, Kris Jenner, and sister, Kendall Jenner.
As for Kanye, a Twitter user Joe Berg said a “Dude just ran on stage and grabbed Kanye and he said, ‘Sorry guys, family emergency I have to leave the show’ and just ran off the stage.”
“It was wild, too, because Kanye ignored the dude at first like on some ‘I can’t leave’ and dude wouldn’t leave without Kanye leaving with him.”
This isn’t the first bizarre incident that Kim has encountered over the past week. On Wednesday, Kim was rushed by prankster Vitalii Sediuk, who tried to kiss her famous rear end. Sediuk, who has pranked celebrities like Bradley Cooper, Will Smith and Gigi Hadid, was immediately tackled by her bodyguard.
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