‘Repulsively tone-deaf’: Piers Morgan slams Kim Kardashian for ‘making criminal’s execution about herself’

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Kim had campaigned for stay of execution, however, the plea was rejected by the United States Supreme Court, and he was killed by lethal injection in December 2020.Remembering the tragic case in a recent video interview, she said Bernard rang her before he was put to death.‘I remember crying and feeling so helpless because it was his last phone call and he was telling me, “don’t cry, it’s gonna be okay”,’ Kim recalled.‘You know, hearing that he was worried that he’d be claustrophobic in the chair and then on his last call when he was in the execution room, said “please tell Kim I’m not claustrophobic, it’s okay”.’Repulsively tone-deaf.

https://t.co/jzP05ysnllKim continued: ‘And moments like that, I’m like if only someone could see my day.‘I’m hysterically crying calling every governor that I could possibly imagine to try and stop someone’s execution and then I have to run into, you know, a Skims fitting, and I’m fitting and I’m crying and I can’t really get my work done.‘It was such a whirlwind of a day.’Kim’s controversial interview was shared widely online, with one person responding: ‘Only Kim Kardashian could make a criminal’s execution all about herself – and she even worked in a Skims promo.’Piers was equally critical of Kim’s comments and upon watching the video, he slammed: ‘Repulsively tone-deaf.’Kim had previously piled on the pressure for former president Donald Trump to pardon Bernard in 2020.Making her plea via Twitter, Kim wrote to Trump: ‘Brandon Bernard, a 40-year-old father is going to be executed tomorrow by our federal government.