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- On the Oct. 30 episode of The Kardashians, Kim revealed that she doesn’t believe the 1969 moon landing really happened
- While on set of All’s Fair, she tried to convince her costar Sarah Paulson to buy into the conspiracy theory
- “I think it was fake,” Kim said
Kim Kardashian has a very controversial take she won’t let go of.
On the Thursday, Oct. 30, episode of The Kardashians, the 45-year-old revealed that she doesn’t believe the 1969 moon landing really happened — while trying to convince her All’s Fair costar Sarah Paulson to have the same doubts.
“I’m sending you, so far, a million articles with both Buzz Aldrin and … the other one,” Kim told Paulson, 50, in between takes on set of the Hulu series, referring to astronaut Neil Armstrong.
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“Yes, do it,” Paulson replied as Kim shared an example of what she was sending her.
“This girl says, ‘What was the scariest moment?’ And [Aldrin] goes, ‘There was no scary moment, cause it didn’t happen. It could’ve been scary, but it wasn’t, cause it didn’t happen.’ “
Kim then alleged that because the astronaut has “gotten old” he now slips up with comments like that. “So I think it didn’t happen,” she admitted.
In fact, Aldrin said the opposite to PEOPLE last year, marking the 55th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission.
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Paulson told her costar on the latest Kardashians episode that she was going to go on a “massive deep dive” after looking at what Kim had sent her, and Kim admitted in a confessional that she sends the actress “conspiracies all the time.”
When she got back to her trailer, a producer followed up on the topic and asked Kim to confirm that she doesn’t believe astronauts walked on the moon: “I don’t think we did. I think it was fake.”
“I’ve seen a few videos [of] Buzz Aldrin talking about how it didn’t happen. He says it all the time now, in interviews,” she claimed.
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She then explained some of the reasons that have convinced her of the conspiracy theory:
“Why does Buzz Aldrin say it didn’t happen? There’s no gravity on the moon — why is the flag blowing? The shoes that they have in the museum that they wore on the moon [have] a different [foot]print than the photos. Why are there no stars?” (These have been debunked.)
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Knowing what kind of response the comments would get, a producer asked Kim what her defense is for people who call her crazy: “They’re gonna say I’m crazy no matter what. But like, go to TikTok. See for yourself.”
New episodes of The Kardashians drop Thursdays on Hulu.
