Kris Jenner lightened the mood at the Blac Chyna vs. The Kardashians trial on Friday — sending a Los Angeles courtroom into peels of laughter by cracking a joke on the witness stand about that time Will Smith slapped Chris Rock at the 2022 Oscars.
Jenner's mentioned the slap heard 'round the world as she tried to explain the meaning of a late-night text she sent the day after her son, Rob Kardashian, had a fight with his then-fiancée Chyna in December 2016.
In the text, Jenner relayed to a "Keeping Up With The Kardashians" showrunner that Chyna had just "beat the shit out of Rob's face."
Chyna's lawyer, Lynne Ciani, is trying to show that as part of a smear campaign against Chyna, Jenner wildly exaggerated the details of the fight to E! Network executives. Ciani asked Jenner on Friday to elaborate on the text's colorful language.
"What did you mean by that?" Ciani asked.
"I meant, beat the shit out of someone's face. It's a figure of speech," Jenner answered, matter-of-factly.
"Like, if I was at an awards show, and someone walked on stage and slapped me," Jenner explained.
"And I said, 'Someone slapped the shit out of my face!'" she added, smiling broadly to audible laughter in the courtroom.
Jenner admitted to jurors that at the time, she had not actually seen Rob's face.
But she said she believed what Rob and Kylie had told her about a December 15, 2016, fight when Chyna admittedly pulled an unloaded gun on her then-fiancé and wrapped an iPhone charging cord around his neck.
Chyna testified on Wednesday that she was just acting "silly" at the time.
In the text, Jenner also told the showrunner that her son needed to "Ditch that bitch," her testimony revealed. Jenner also told the showrunner in the text that Chyna had been "drunk for three days" at the time of the fight. But Jenner admitted in her testimony that she had no firsthand knowledge of how much Chyna may have drunk.
Jenner later stood behind more of her own colorful language, defending a previous deposition from 2019, in which she'd said she was "one hundred thousand percent sure" that Chyna tried to murder her son Rob on the night of the fight.
In contrast to her Oscars-slap joke, Jenner appeared to tear up at another point on Friday, as she told the jury that guns had been pointed at two of her children in 2016 — one right after the other — leaving her "traumatized."
"My daughter Kim, 60 days prior [to the Chyna-Rob fight] had been held at gunpoint and robbed in Paris and was tied up and thrown into a bathtub," Jenner told jurors.
"I was traumatized by that," she said, giving a sniffle that was picked up by her microphone. "And by the incident with Rob."
Jenner is the lead plaintiff in Chyna's $100 million lawsuit against the family behind the "Keeping Up With The Kardashians" reality franchise.
The 2017 lawsuit alleges that Kris Jenner rallied daughters Kim Kardashian, Khloe Kardashian, and Kylie Jenner in a lie-filled vendetta that cost Chyna tens of millions in future income. Allegations that the Kardashian-Jenners deny.
Jenner's testimony continues Monday. The lawsuit's other defendants, Kim Kardashian, Khloe Kardashian, and Kylie Jenner, are also expected to testify.
