Topics: Celebrity, Conspiracy Theories, Film and TV, Kardashians, Kim Kardashian, News, Sarah Paulson, Disney Plus
Kim Kardashian has revealed that she believes in a conspiracy theory that's been a topic of debate for decades.
Conspiracy theories will refuse to go away no matter how much evidence there is to disprove them.
Some people still believe the Earth is flat, with one guy trying launch himself almost 2,000 feet into the air so that he could see with his own eyes that our planet is frisbee-shaped.
Then there's the belief that there's something sinister causing planes and ships to disappear in the Bermuda Triangle, and the theory that the US government is experimenting on alien technology in Area 51.
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There was even a craze a few months back of people insisting Labubus were possessed by a demon - and the conspiracy theory Kim K has admitted to believing in is just as wild.
But she's so convinced she even tries to persuade her All's Fair co-star Sarah Paulson it's true on a new episode of The Kardashians.
Kim K believes the 1969 moon landing was faked. In today's episode (October 30) of the Disney+/Hulu show, she offers to send Paulson 'a million articles' featuring Aldrin and Neil Armstrong supposedly confirming that it never happened.
"Yes, do it," encourages Paulson. Kardashian then goes on to recall a viral 2015 Q&A with Aldrin.
During the session at Oxford Union, the retired astronaut was asked what the scariest moment of the journey to the moon was.
He replied: "Scariest? It didn’t happen. It could’ve been scary."
There is some missing context here - we'll get to that later.
Kim's theory is that in the wake of Aldrin's old age (he's now 95 years old), he's struggling to keep the secret of the fake moon landing like he did when he was younger.
Later speaking in a confessional, Kardashian doubled down on her beliefs.
She says, per PEOPLE: "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."
Going on to explain what convinced her to feel this way, Kardashian details: "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?"
Now there's plenty of evidence to show Kardashian is wrong here, but most important is that Aldrin never actually said the moon landing didn't happen.
The original video of the Q&A with Aldrin shows him go on to reveal he was referring to a specific scary moment that fortunately 'didn't happen'.
He recalls noticing a broken circuit breaker when the astronauts returned to the shuttle and were preparing to return back to Earth.
The circuit breaker controlled the 'engine arm' which Aldrin said was 'the one that gets us back in orbit and gets us back home'.
While this definitely would have been scary if Aldrin hadn't spotted it, he explained he pushed the circuit breaker back in with a felt tip pin, adding: "I pushed it in two hours early. Piece of cake. No problem."
So Aldrin wasn't saying the moon landing didn't help, he's saying he managed to avoid a scary moment through his quick thinking. It's likely Kim has never watched the full video where he explains what he means by his comments.
While Kardashian urges people to go to TikTok to do their research, I strongly advise you look at some more reliable sources...
