Kim Kardashian.Photo:Getty
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Kim Kardashianrecalled taking the stand during the1998 murder trialfor herthen-boyfriendTJ Jackson’s mother Dee Dee.
“My dad was going through all those trials and it was pretty intense in my life,” she toldVogue Italia. “My boyfriend’s mother whom I was really close with was murdered in 1994 and I had to be part of that trial.”
Kim Kardashian and TJ Jackson.Antoine Flament/Getty Images; Lester Cohen/Getty Images
Antoine Flament/Getty Images; Lester Cohen/Getty Images
When asked how she was involved in the trial, the television personality — who has become involved inthe criminal justice reform movement— shared, “I had to testify and was there every day with my boyfriend. I was just 14, you know.”
Four years after her death in 1998, Bohana wasfound guilty of second-degree murderin Dee Dee’s death and was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison. He’s spent 19 years in a California prison.
“To have that experience at such a young age was insane,” she explained. “And it was also back-to-back with theO.J. [Simpson]trial, there was just a lot of layers there.”
In 2020, the reality staropened up about her memoriesof theSimpson trial— with parents Robert andKris Jenneron opposite sides of the contentious 1994 court case — during a sit-down withDavid Lettermanforhis Netflix talk show,My Next Guest Needs No Introduction.
“It was dinner time, and we were all sitting down, and I answered the phone. It was a call from jail, and it was O.J., and I handed my mom the phone because he wanted to speak to her,” said Kim. “And I just remember them getting into it.”
Kim Kardashian and OJ Simpson.Stefanie Keenan/Getty; Ethan Miller/Getty
Kim, who was around 14 years old at the time of the initial trial, said it was difficult to navigate the opposition between her divorced parents.
“We didn’t really know what to believe or whose side to take as kids, because we didn’t want to hurt one of our parents' feelings,” she continued.
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In recent years, Kim has become an advocate for criminal justice reform, which she called"her life’s most meaningful work"at the TIME100 Summit in April.
The SKIMS founder’s legal efforts began in October 2017 afterlearning about the case of Alice Marie Johnson, who had been in prison since October 1996 after being convicted for helping facilitate communications in a drug trafficking case. (Johnson believed she would be pardoned in 2016 when then-PresidentBarack Obamagranted clemency to 231 people — including many with similar nonviolent drug charges — but Johnson was passed over.)
After Johnson wasreleased from prisonin August 2020, Kardashian continued to advocate for other wrongfully convicted inmates; most recently including asking for the temporary release of a jailedfather whose daughter was killedin the tragic elementaryschool shooting in Uvalde, Texas.
source: people.com
