Piers Morgan has penned a brutal open letter to Kim Kardashian, in wake of her being robbed and held at gunpoint in Paris earlier this week.
The Good Morning Britain host released an open letter to the Armenian beauty in the Daily Mail – and unleashed a scathing attack on the reality star’s tendencies to flaunt her wealth.
Throughout the open letter, Piers pointed out that while the robbery was obviously a terrifying experience, he urged that now is the time to decide if she wants “to be the smart, warm woman you really are or the trash-talking monster you were becoming”.
“There comes a moment in everyone’s life which makes you re-assess everything IN your life. It doesn’t matter if you’re rich or poor, black or white, old or young,” Piers wrote in the Daily Mail.
Dear @KimKardashian, do you want to be a smart, influential role model or a trash-talking mercenary monster?https://t.co/rVemKnUqbj pic.twitter.com/mFFPDKByze
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) October 5, 2016
“At some point, that moment will hit you like a ten-ton truck and when it does, you’d better listen to what your heart and gut tells you. Your moment came at 3am on Monday morning.
“Until then, you were a woman who thought she had it all: great natural beauty, two perfect kids, marriage to one of the world’s top music stars, a variety of extravagant homes, myriad business ventures raking in hundreds of millions of dollars, private jets, limos, famous friends…yes, you were living your dream.
“In fact you were living most people’s dream. Then the dream suddenly became a nightmare. Five armed men burst in, hauled you out of your bed at gunpoint, tied you up and threw you in your bath. They then robbed you of that ring and another $7 million worth of jewels. You were terrified, understandably.
“You’ve told friends since you feared they were going to rape or even kill you. It must have been a hideous experience for which I can only offer you my deepest sympathy. Yet you were, as I’m sure you would readily admit yourself, lucky. These disgusting thugs didn’t physically harm you, though the mental scars may be hard to eradicate. And it could have been a hell of a lot worse.
Hitting out: Piers took aim at Kim after being held at gunpoint in Paris | INSTAGRAM
“They might have been ISIS terrorists intent on decapitating you on camera in their latest warped, twisted reality TV snuff video strike against western culture. After all, you epitomize everything they profess to detest about louche, celebrity-obsessed excess, Paris is their favourite European city to commit atrocities, and thanks to your insanely lax security team, you were a sitting duck. But thankfully they weren’t, and you survived.
“Unlike the 100 or so children who were killed by bombs and bullets in Syria in the last 10 days. That may sound a trite thing to say but perspective, proper meaningful perspective, is an important thing when this life-assessing moment comes,” he said.
Piers also told how he once interviewed Kim on CNN, and walked away with a great admiration for her – going on to say how he defended her after her controversial ‘Break the Internet’ cover in Paper Magazine, but that she changed by growing “slowly coarser and snarkier” and posting nude selfies on social media.
The presenter also launched an attack on how she “began trash-talking Taylor Swift”.
“Around the same time, you began trash-talking Taylor Swift after she took exception to your husband Kanye writing a song in which he called her a ‘b*tch’ and said he wanted to have sex with her.
Revolting: Piers said Kanye and Kim’s treatment of Taylor Swift was ‘revolting’ | INSTAGRAM
“You even encouraged his appalling piece of waxwork ‘orgy art’ which featured figures of you both lying nude next to a dummy of Taylor’s own naked body. It was exploitative, distasteful and frankly, revolting. And it all seemed so unlike the Kim Kardashian West that I thought I knew.
“Now, as you recover from this horrendous attack in Paris, doubtless shaken to your very core, you have got time to reflect on where you are in your life and what really matters to you.
“I hope you see this as a massive big red ‘WARNING!’ sign. This was in many ways an attack waiting to happen. As fashion king Karl Lagerfeld put it yesterday: ‘You cannot display your wealth and then be surprised some people want to share it.’” he wrote.
“You were attacked Kim because you publicly flaunted your success and excess to the point that somebody else wanted it for themselves.That doesn’t mean you deserved it because nobody deserves to be robbed in such a despicable manner. But it should mean that you now think long and hard about how you lead and promote your life.
Perspective: Piers called on Kim to question what kind of woman she wants to be | INSTAGRAM
“It’s a chance to re-calibrate, to take pause and work out if you just want to be known as a topless, bird-flipping, diamond-flashing, trash-talking sex tape celebrity – or something more meaningful and influential.
“I’ve seen you speak out about serious issues like Armenian genocide, gay marriage and US gun control, and talk intelligently about issues your young female fans really care about like health, beauty, confidence and self-esteem. When you do that, you have a powerful voice. When you live up to and celebrate the former image, you have a corrupting one.
“What kind of woman, mother, wife and role model do you actually want to be now you’ve achieved everything you dreamed of as a kid, and now you’ve faced up to a moment where it was nearly all taken away from you?,” he added.
Read Piers’ full letter here.
