Chyna’s lawyer is insisting that she be allowed to redo her testimony, claiming that she was unable to reply cross-examination questions sufficiently after seeing the leaked nude pictures triggered her to interrupt down in tears.

Blac Chyna’s lawyer, Lynne Ciani, has requested that she be allowed to redo her testimony after an “unethical” cross-examination performed by the Kardashians’ lawyer left her “visibly shaken.”


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Chyna, who’s at present going through off towards the Kardashians in a strenuous legal battle, was reduced to tears on the witness stand after she was proven a number of nude pictures of herself that have been leaked on-line by her ex-fiancé Rob Kardashian.


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For some context, Chyna and Rob’s tumultuous relationship got here to an finish in September 2016 after lower than a 12 months of relationship. Throughout this time, they not solely acquired engaged, but additionally fell pregnant with now-5-year-old daughter Dream — and documented every thing on their unique E! actuality present Rob & Chyna, a by-product to Rob’s household’s hit collection Holding Up With The Kardashians.


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Like their relationship, Rob and Chyna’s present was in the end short-lived, because it was discontinued after only one season. Chyna accused the Kardashians of plotting to get the present canceled, and — in a 2017 court docket case that was introduced again to trial final month — is suing Rob’s mother Kris Jenner, and sisters Kim Kardashian, Khloé Kardashian, and Kylie Jenner, for hundreds of millions of dollars in damages.

In the meantime, Chyna filed a separate lawsuit towards Rob and his household in October 2017. Not lengthy after it was introduced that the present had been axed, Rob leaked several explicit nude photos of Chyna on social media, together with one among her uncovered genital space.


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Within the swimsuit, Chyna is accusing Rob of sharing her non-public nude pictures to his thousands and thousands of followers on Instagram and Twitter with out her consent, which she stated triggered her to endure psychological ache and struggling, humiliation, and emotional misery. Rob was accused of violating California’s law on the nonconsensual sharing of sexual photographs and affronting ladies’s rights after posting the images, and confronted an enormous backlash on-line.


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Chyna’s “revenge porn” swimsuit towards Rob is reportedly set to begin in Might, after the present case towards his mom and sisters involves a detailed.


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Showing within the Los Angeles Superior Court docket final Thursday, which was the third day of proceedings within the current trial, Chyna took to the witness stand to provide her testimony, although was caught off guard after being introduced with a binder containing the leaked nude photographs of her.


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The pictures got by the Kardashians’ lawyer, Michael Rhodes, whereas he investigated the restraining order that Chyna had filed towards Rob — which, the Kar-Jenners claimed, was proof {that a} second season of Rob & Chyna would have been not possible to make, and thus proof that the case should be dismissed.


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The specific photos weren’t proven to the jury or anybody else current, as was beforehand agreed by stipulation from each events. However, Chyna was nonetheless left “visibly shaken” after seeing the pictures, based on eyewitnesses.


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Entertainment Tonight reported that Chyna requested a break in proceedings and left the room to be consoled by a buddy. “As soon as she left the courtroom, Chyna was seen crying and visibly shaken after seeing the pictures of herself bare within the binder,” the eyewitness stated. “She was being consoled by her male buddy as she walked into a personal room on the courthouse.”


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Now, Chyna’s lawyer Ciani has denounced the Kardashians’ lawyer, Michael Rhodes, for the transfer, which she reportedly referred to as “a deliberate and unethical psychological assault.”


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Ciani claimed Chyna was so distressed that when Rhodes later requested her concerning the financial quantity that she’s searching for in damages, she could not even identify a stable determine.

Ciani additionally stated that Chyna may solely give obscure solutions to different questions through the cross-examination, including that seeing the specific photographs “derailed” her and left her so “upset.”


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“There was a stipulation that the pictures wouldn’t be included which was violated deliberately,” Ciani instructed the choose, earlier than requesting that she be allowed to redo her testimony because of this.


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Asking the choose if Chyna’s earlier testimony concerning the damages that she’s searching for might be scrapped solely from the file, Ciani stated: “I’m attempting to recommend corrective motion so we don’t should have a mistrial.”


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In response, Rhodes denied any wrongdoing. “The premise that I tricked [Chyna] into seeing these images is absurd,” he instructed the court docket.


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“I plan to re-focus my consideration on my trial towards Kris Jenner and her daughters Kim, Khloe, and Kylie,” she wrote on April 2.


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“After they acquired my #1 hit present killed again in January 2017, that not solely damage me financially and emotionally, that damage my lovely KIDS,” she wrote. In addition to her and Rob’s daughter Dream, Chyna has a 9-year-old son, shared together with her ex Tyga.


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“I’m taking them to court docket to face up for my authorized rights and to be an instance to my children that ‘what’s proper is true, what’s flawed is flawed.’ And what they did was so flawed,” she wrote, earlier than accusing them of telling “lies” behind “closed doorways.”


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“I’m so grateful {that a} jury will lastly take heed to what actually occurred behind closed doorways — the lies that have been instructed and the harm that was executed,” she wrote.


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