Kourtney Kardashian appeared on TODAY Extra this morning for an extremely awkward interview, which was supposed to be about light topics like fitness and beauty regimens, but ended up very much being about her sister Kim‘s robbery.

Kourtney pulled the move which generally is handled slightly more deftly by publicists, who maybe should have anticipated that this one would, you know, come up.

“You should know that the people of Australia and of our show were very empathetic about what happened and very horrified,” host David Campbell said.

“We were wondering, how is everyone going and how is Kim doing?”

Kourtney responded with a completely blank stare off-camera as a publicist burst in to shut that shit down. She pulled the classic move which I pull on a daily basis for any number of things: pretending she didn’t hear anything. “What?” she kept repeating, looking offscreen, clearly being coached to shaddap.

During the ad break, she reportedly told her publicist team that she was actually more than keen to answer that question, so returned with a vaguely prepared statement:

“She’s not doing great,” Kourtney says, after blaming it all on a bad connection.

“I think we’re all really still shaken up and I just – you know, I think she has a big supportive family and I know that, like, all of the traumatic things that we’ve been through, we get through them together as a family,” she continued.

The perils and pitfalls of celebrity PR. Goddamn, it’s like the Kremlin under Stalin out there.

Source: Today.