“The Kardashians” Accused Of Faking A Narrative To Keep away from Astroworld

On Nov. 5, 2021, 10 individuals have been killed following a lethal crowd surge at Travis Scott’s Astroworld competition.

The youngest sufferer was simply 9 years outdated, and lots of extra have been injured on the tragic occasion in Houston.

The annual competition is produced by Travis and is called after his 2018 album. The surge occurred throughout his headline efficiency, the place he was accused of “inciting the group.”

Whereas Kendall and Kylie have been at Astroworld, the remainder of their household have been celebrating their mother Kris Jenner’s birthday at her dwelling in Calabasas.

Each occasions occurred on the identical night, with the Kardashians posting movies from the get together to their Instagram accounts on the time.

Kris’s birthday was a key storyline on this week’s episode of the household’s new actuality present, The Kardashians, with Kris beneath strain to ask her daughter Kourtney Kardashian’s ex-boyfriend, Scott Disick, to the do regardless of her latest engagement to Travis Barker.

The awkwardness from contained in the get together was additionally caught on digicam, with Scott visibly uncomfortable with Kourtney and Travis’s PDA. Ellen DeGeneres and her spouse, Portia de Rossi, have been additionally among the many friends at Kris’s birthday.

However, in fact, Kendall and Kylie have been notably absent that night, and viewers have been horrified by the way in which that the present dealt with the explanation why.

Not solely was the competition utterly ignored, a storyline involving Kendall was seemingly faked to keep away from mentioning Astroworld.

Whereas Kris was getting ready for her celebration, Kendall and her buddy Hailey Bieber have been seen on trip in Miami.

Later, it was closely steered that Kendall missed the do as a result of she was in Miami, with the star calling her mother on digicam for a debrief of the occasion.

“I like these little journeys that we do, I’m simply unhappy that I’m lacking my mother’s birthday,” Kendall mentioned in a Miami scene that instantly adopted Kris’s get together.

“I’ll be again to provide her a pleasant birthday hug in a few days,” Kendall added.

On the cellphone to Kris, she mentioned, “I used to be simply calling to see how your birthday was,” earlier than expressing shock to be taught that Scott had attended.

Whereas Kendall didn’t explicitly say that she was in Miami for her mother’s birthday, it was very a lot implied — regardless of it being identified that she was at Astroworld that night time.

In reality, there isn’t a proof of Kendall being in Miami earlier than Nov. 12, when she was photographed by the paparazzi. That is virtually a whole week after Kris’s get together, and he or she undoubtedly would have heard about Scott attending by then.

Understandably, viewers have been shocked by the way in which that The Kardashians had utterly glossed over Astroworld regardless of the household being closely related to the tragedy.

And the truth that the episode seemingly solid a very totally different timeline for Kendall was all of the extra insulting to individuals watching at dwelling.

Whereas it was largely agreed that Astroworld shouldn’t have been a storyline within the present, viewers mentioned that it felt disrespectful to not acknowledge it in any approach in any respect, and they need to have at the very least included a tribute to the victims.

BuzzFeed Information has contacted a consultant for The Kardashians for remark.

Regardless of the skewed timeline within the present, Kendall did acknowledge the tragedy on the time and posted a press release to her Instagram story on Nov. 8, which learn: “I’m nonetheless confused over the information from Astroworld. I’m really damaged for the households which have misplaced family members and my prayers exit to everybody concerned.

Nonetheless, Travis has been extensively criticized for his response, particularly after it was reported that he continued performing for 37 minutes after the competition was declared a mass casualty incident — and regardless of pleas from the group to cease the present.

In December, he appeared to recommend that he was being unfairly blamed for the tragedy in his first sit-down interview, claiming that the media “need to put it on [him].”

In February, Travis was accused of getting “no regret” when he appreciated Kanye West’s Instagram put up demanding that Billie Eilish apologize to Travis after she was filmed serving to a fan who was struggling to breathe at her present.

Nonetheless, lower than a month later, the rapper unveiled a brand new undertaking he’d been engaged on to “make all occasions the most secure areas they’ll probably be” as he insisted that he “will all the time honor the victims of the Astroworld tragedy.”

Travis returned to the stage for his first public live performance for the reason that competition on Might 9, and three days later it was revealed that he was being sued for wrongful loss of life by a lady who alleges that she had a miscarriage due to the extreme accidents she obtained at Astroworld.

It’s simply the newest in a protracted line of filings towards Travis and the competition’s organizers, with hundreds of victims searching for billions of {dollars} in damages.