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Kim Kardashian vulnerably recalled how her father, Robert Kardashian Sr., predicted her success in their final conversation before he died of cancer in 2003.
“The last thing my dad ever said to me was, ‘I know you’re going to be good — I can see it,'” the Skims founder told author Jonathan Van Meter in a new biography about her life titled “Citizen Kim: The Woman Who Created the Future,” per People.
“It’s as if I can see what your whole life is going to be like,’” the businesswoman remembered the late lawyer telling her. “My dad didn’t go into detail, and he was kind of in and out of it.”
Kim, now 46, reflected on how she and Robert Sr., who was 59 when he died, were watching a movie leading up to his death.
“He put his hand on my leg,” she said. “I’ll never forget it. And I was laying next to him on this couch — this L-shaped couch — and we were kinda squished in this way.”
“And he said, ‘You’ll be fine. But take care of the other ones. And make sure your brother’s good,'” she continued, referring to her sisters, Kourtney Kardashian, now 47, Khloé Kardashian, now 42, and younger brother, Robert Kardashian Jr., now 39.
Kim also reflected on her final words to Robert Sr., when he was bedridden and “couldn’t communicate.”
“I knew his vitals were almost gone, and the last thing I said to him was, ‘Dad, thank you so much for everything that you’ve taught me, from how to be a good person, to how you did my homework with me, everything I’m going to do with my kids one day,'” she told the patriarch.
“‘And I’m going to take the lesson of you being in my life and carry that forward.”’
Robert Sr. died on Sept. 30 following a battle with esophageal cancer.
The attorney shared Kim, Kourtney, Khloé and Robert Jr. with his ex-wife, Kris Jenner, now 70, whom he was wed to from 1978 to 1991.
The exes split after Jenner’s affair with soccer pro Todd Waterman, which she has since admitted to deeply regretting.
“I think that I fell into a situation where I thought that the grass was greener somewhere else,” Kris in a 2023 episode of “The Kardashians.” “I made a huge mistake. That’s my life’s biggest regret.”
Robert Sr. remarried to Jan Ashley in 1998, and the duo called it quits the following year. He tied the knot with Ellen Pierson the year he died.
As for Kris, she remarried Caitlyn Jenner the same year she and Robert Sr. divorced. The duo split in 2015 after welcoming their daughters, Kendall Jenner and Kylie Jenner.