Kim Kardashian has called her now notorious visit to Austria ‘the trip from hell’, insisting: ‘It was so racist.’
The reality TV star was famously confronted by a man in full ‘blackface’ when she was a VIP guest at the Vienna Ball – and then left horrified in a live TV interview as a comedian used the N-word in front of her.
And she has since revealed that on her flight home a fellow passenger started throwing racial slurs about North, her daughter with rapper Kanye West.
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Ugly incident: Kim Kardashian and Kris Jenner enounctered racism while in Austria on Sunday’s episode of Keeping Up With The Kardashians
Scenes from the trip, shown on Sunday night’s episode of Keeping Up With The Kardashians, revealed her full horror that night, along with mother Kris Jenner angrily letting loose at the businessman who invited them to the ball.
As well as telling sister Khloe that it was ‘the trip from hell’ and ‘so racist’, Kim said: ‘It’s like we’re honestly in a time warp. Racial insensitivity, everything from this trip, has just been a true nightmare.’
Kim Kardashian recounts Vienna ‘blackface’ incident on KUWTK
Horrible trip: Kim told her sister Khloe about the racism she encountered in Austria and on the long plane ride home
‘It was like literally you thought you were in 1914 or something,’ Kris agreed. ‘It was shocking.’
Kim admitted it was a real eye-opener as she had previously dismissed husband Kanye’s complaints about racism still being such a current problem.
‘I obviously understood it, but it’s just such a different thing when you experience it yourself,’ Kim admitted.
Not so funny: Kim was greeted by Austrian comedian Chris Stephan in blackface who pretended to be her husband Kanye West
Despite calling the Vienna Ball ‘super glamorous’, Kim admitted she had been already suffering anxiety largely because the event was ‘super claustrophobic’.
The reality TV cameras then caught her shock at seeing a guest in blackface calling out ‘Kim I’m here’ – clearly pretending to be Kanye.
‘I just am so confused,’ Kim said. ‘I don’t get why him or anyone else would find this funny. This is supposed to be a really nice upscale event. How did this guy get in? Is this just like a sick joke?’
Bad joke: German comedian Oliver Pocher used the N-word in a tasteless racial joke
Kris called it ‘a little scary’, adding: ‘To have somebody so ignorant come to such a beautiful event and spoil it for everyone is just taking a huge step backwards.’
She said she wanted to get Kim away from the ball as quickly as possible, but wanted her to meet her final commitment, a live TV interview with Mirjam Wechselbraun.
It was then that comedian Oliver Pocher left Kim and Kris visibly shocked and uncomfortable as he joked that he was only going to dance when ‘N****** in Vienna’ was played.
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Media frenzy: Kim went to the Vienna Ball as the date of Austrian billionaire businessman Richard Lugner, right
Kim says her reaction was ‘Oh my God. Did he say what I think he just said?’ while her mother insisted: ‘I get that he’s a comedian but clearly that was incredibly inappropriate.
‘This whole time we’ve had smiles on our faces, we’ve tried to be perfect ladies and very appreciative. But I’m at my limit and we just need to get the hell out of here.’
She had even stronger words for Wolfgang Santner, a business associate who was key in them being in Vienna.
Nightmare visit: Kris told her Austrian business associate Wolfgang Santner how she felt disrespected at the ball
‘I have never been so disrespected as a woman or a human being my whole entire life,’ Kris told him in her hotel room shortly after they fled the disastrous event.
‘This man treats Kim with such disrespect. He made me look like a fool, he made Kim look like a fool.’
She added: ‘I feel like I’ve let my children down, my daughter down, by allowing her to even experience this nonsense.’
While the racism was the low point, the trip had started disastrously when Kris got to the hotel and found numerous designer items including sunglasses, bags and shoes missing from her luggage.
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Rough beginning: The trip started with Kris learning items had been stolen from her luggage
Kim was then upset when she was told thousands of fans were lined up ready to meet her at an event she insists she was never told about – happening when she had planned to put her baby daughter to bed for her nap.
‘Before I would never have done anything to disappoint any of the fans but now my daughter becomes my number one priority,’ Kim said.
‘It is definitely way more difficult to balance my career and being a mom, but everyone does it.’
And then the ‘trip from hell’ got even worse during the flight home.
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Horror story: Khloe couldn’t believe the racism that Kim encountered
‘I don’t think more things could go wrong in Vienna, and then we got on the plane,’ Kim recalled to Khloe.
‘I fell asleep, I woke up to this woman screaming, ”Kanye West’s baby!” The woman is screaming at my child, I jump up,’ she added, before Khloe insisted: ‘I would’ve punched her in her face. I would’ve. You scream at my child and I punch you.’
Kris continued the story by recalling, ‘This lady stood up in the cabin in first class and yelled at the top of her lungs, ”She’s with a black guy, and that baby is black! And you need to shut that black baby up!”’
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Family talk: Kris and Kim told a shocked Khloe about the trip
‘I would say, hashtag, “Fact, my baby is black”,’ Khloe said. ‘Hashtag, “I only like black c***!” That’s what I would say!
‘All I get called is a n***er lover all day long, who the f**k cares?’
Kim continued: ‘And she was like, ”And she has a sex video with a black guy – that was disgusting, with a black guy!” On and on.’
Later Kim wrote a blog about her experience with racism, with her sister Kourtney saying it gave her ‘chills’ and her mother telling Kim she has an ‘amazing way at looking at the world’ and should write more like it.
Inspired writer: Kim wrote a blog posting about racism after the trip
As well as the nightmare trip, fans also got to see Kourtney and husband Scott butt heads over plans to move into their new home – with Scott desperate to rush in while Kourtney was deliberately avoiding the huge change in their lives.
The delay was made even worse when Scott saw a rat in the house – an excuse Kourtney used to keep them out.
Scott then moved in, living on a blow-up mattress, telling his wife: ‘I’m going to live here with or without you.’
Air bed: Scott Disick slept on a blow-up mattress to lure partner Kourtney Kardashian to their new dream home
Kourtney finally came around, admitting: ‘Scott is right. I’m not one who loves change, and leaving memories of my old house.’
Meanwhile, the sisters made it clear they also found father-in-law Bruce Jenner’s image change – which had him teased in the media – amusing, too.
‘Has anyone seen Bruce’s hair and why it looked teased yesterday?’ Kim asks Khloe and Kourtney, with Kourtney insisting: ‘No, but we should have made him cut it more. Now I feel bad.’
Hair talk: Bruce Jenner encouraged Kourtney to embrace change and move into her new home