A sobbing Kim Kardashian told a court she forgives the defendant after saying she thought she was going to be raped and killed during a terrifying 2016 jewellery heist.

'I was certain that was the moment that he was going to rape me,' she told a Paris court on Tuesday. 'I absolutely did think I was going to die.'

The last time Kardashian saw the masked men that police say robbed her, she was bound at gunpoint and left locked in a marble bathroom while the assailants stole jewellery worth millions of dollars.

Nearly a decade later, she has returned to Paris to face them - this time from the witness box.

Dressed in black and wearing dark sunglasses, Kardashian stood in the packed courtroom across from her mother, Kris Jenner. As she entered the Voltaire Room, the star was greeted by cheers of 'wow' from the audience.