Kim Kardashian received a fright at a Paris Fashion Week event when she was apparently jostled by someone waiting in a large crowd outside her car.

The Keeping Up with the Kardashians star had just exited her car at the Hotel Salomon de Rothschild when the kerfuffle erupted around 3pm. In a video posted on website TMZ.com, Kardashian appears to stumble briefly after a person lunges towards her feet.

Bodyguards instantly push Kardashian out of the way and subdue someone who remains off camera. Kardashian’s mother Kris Jenner can be seen yelling: “Stop it!”

Ex-journalist Vitalii Sediuk, a former Ukrainian television reporter, said he is the person in the video, and that he had only been trying to hug the star.

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