Kim Kardashian said she muted her phone during her final call with condemned inmate Brandon Bernard, so he couldn’t hear her sobbing on the phone.
The reality star used her fame and clout to appeal to U.S. President Donald Trump to stay the execution of Bernard, which took place on Thursday night.
Kardashian took to Twitter to share her ordeal after she claimed she spoke to Bernard hours before he was put to death.
“Just spoke to Brandon for what will likely be the last time. Hardest call I’ve ever had,” she tweeted. “Brandon, selfless as always, was focused on his family and making sure they are ok. He told me not to cry because our fight isn’t over.”
Bernard, 40, had been on death row since being sentenced in 2000 for his involvement in a carjacking and robbery that led to the deaths of Todd and Stacie Bagley on the Fort Hood military base in Killeen, Texas in 1999.
He was convicted of killing Stacie Bagley by setting her car on fire while she was still alive in the trunk.
Kardashian embellished the details of their final call, saying jailers offered the condemned man a “Sedative” before he went to the “chair.”
Bernard died from a lethal injection containing a sedative and a drug to stop his heart. The lethal drugs are infused while the inmate is strapped to a gurney, not a chair.
Kardashian said:
“When he told me he’s claustrophobic and they offered to give him a shot of Sedative to calm him down before they put him in the chair and he just didn’t want to panic, I literally lost it. I had to mute my phone so he wouldn’t hear me cry like that.”
“(We) didn’t say goodbye (because) we wanted to be hopeful that we would talk again,” she added drastically. “We said talk to you soon!”
Bernard was pronounced dead at 9:27 p.m. after the Supreme Court denied his last-minute stay of execution.
Four more inmates are scheduled to die at the Indiana federal prison. Alfred Bourgeois will be executed on Friday, Dec. 11. Bourgeois was sentenced to death for the torture and murder of his 2-year-old daughter.
