Kim Kardashian used to love going to Paris.
The reality TV star and businesswoman told a court she would wake up in the middle of the night and take walks around the city.
"I always felt really safe … I'd stop in little hotels for hot chocolate, it was magical," she said.
"But when I came for Fashion Week during that trip, it changed everything."
Ms Kardashian returned to the French capital this week to give evidence at the Palais de Justice at a trial of 10 people who have become known as the "grandpa robbers" because many of them are now in their 60s and 70s.
Each member — nine men and one woman — is accused of playing a role in a violent 2016 burglary in which the A-lister was bound with cable ties and held at gunpoint.
Ms Kardashian had jewellery worth $US10 million (about $13 million at the time) stolen during the ordeal.
Here are three key takeaways from her evidence on Tuesday, local time.
She thought she was going to die
During her testimony, Ms Kardashian said she thought she was going to die when several people burst into her hotel room in early October, 2016.
She told the court they were dressed as police but she was confused when the hotel's night concierge, Abderrahmane Ouatiki, arrived with the group in handcuffs.
Ms Kardashian told the court her hands were bound with cable ties and that she was thrown on a bed.
She said she had asked Mr Ouatiki, whom she recognised, to speak in French and tell the men, "I have babies, I have to make it home".
She told the court that at one point during the robbery, one of the men had pointed a gun at her and that later, a gun had been held to her back.
The presiding judge, David de Pas, asked Ms Kardashian if she thought she was going to die during the assault.
"I absolutely did think I was going to die," she replied.
Ms Kardashian told the court that while she was being restrained, she also thought she would be sexually assaulted.
She worried that her sister would return to the hotel later and find her body, and that the image would stay with her sibling for the rest of her life.
Celebrity's life 'changed forever' after robbery
During her evidence on Tuesday, Ms Kardashian outlined how her life had changed in multiple ways since the night of the robbery.
She told the court that prior to this incident, she had travelled with just one security guard who had slept at a different hotel, as they assumed wherever they were staying was secure.
"We never thought we were ever not safe before this," she told the court.
Ms Kardashian, in her evidence, said she had become scared of leaving her home after this incident.
She said this was driven by the fact that if people saw she was out, it could mean they would use her absence as an opportunity to break into her house.
She now has a security team, some of whom sleep outside her hotel rooms.
Ms Kardashian told the court she removed jewellery and sent it to a different location after wearing it, rather than taking it home, so as not to endanger her family.
She told the court that when she heard people coming up the stairs to her bedroom in the Paris hotel she was robbed in, she called out to see if it was her sister.
No one replied.
She says that now, if she calls out to people she can hear coming up stairs and they do not reply, she would "start crying because it reminded me of that time".
"Other than that, I try to be just strong and protective, and I have a lot of security around my house — even if it's excessive or ridiculous to other people, that's what I need to feel safe and sleep and I'm OK with that," she said.
Ms Kardashian said she has had "extensive therapy" to try and understand aspects of the robbery.
'I forgive you', Kardashian tells one accused
In all, 12 people were due to go on trial over the robbery.
One died before it began, and another, who has dementia, has been excused.
Of the 10 remaining accused, two have already pleaded guilty. One of them is Aomar Ait Khedache.
In court on Tuesday, Ms Kardashian was surprised to learn Khedache, 68, had written her a letter after his arrest in 2017.
The socialite cried as it was read out in the Palais de Justice.
Khedache wrote that he regretted his actions.
He wrote: "Of course you can't undo the past but I hope this letter will help you forget the trauma you endured because of me."
Ms Kardashian was given the chance to respond to the letter after hearing it, and said that while the way she felt about the robbery would never change, she did "appreciate the letter, for sure".
"I do appreciate it, I forgive you," she told the court, while motioning at Khedache.
