“He schooled the s--- out of me,” the reality star said.

Kim Kardashian shouts out Wesley Snipes for saving her life when she was a teen: ‘Never seen him again’

"He schooled the s--- out of me," the reality star said.

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Wesley Snipes was saving lives even before he donned the leather coat as Marvel's most badass superhero, according to Kim Kardashian.

During a recent interview on her sister Khloé Kardashian's podcast, *Khloé in Wonder Land*, Kim was asked to "spill the tea" on some of her wildest stories that weren't known to the public, since the Skims founder has "lived a bazillion lives." Specifically, Khloé asked her older sister to share the encounter she had with the Blade actor when she was a teen.

"I just want to start it off with: Wesley Snipes saved my life," the 45-year-old reality star declared. "And he doesn't know this story. He has no clue who I was."

Kim explained that the unexpected meetup happened during a trip to New York City with her friends when she was around 17 years old. "I went to New York once before with my dad, but never like on the party scene or anything. So, we all are at this club called Life — I remember it was like the place to be," she recalled.

Kim Kardashian attends the 2025 Vanity Fair Oscar Party.

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"We were at a club and then everyone's like, 'Oh my gosh, let's go back to like our friend's house for a party,' and so my friend Sarah Howard, she wrote on my hand her dad's address and was like, 'If we lose each other, this is the address,'" Kim said, to which Khloé noted that at this point in time (the late '90s) there was "no cell phones, pay phones only."

Kim shared that the experience was totally new to her since she had never been to the city by herself, quipping that she didn't think she'd ever even gotten a cab on her own.

"So then [Sarah] hands me a $20 bill 'cuz we were sharing a purse and was like, 'Here's for a cab in case you like in case we can't find each other,'" Kim continued, adding that she vaguely remembered putting the money "in my dress strap or something, I don't know," before the friends carried on with their night.

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It was after things had moved to the house party that Kim's night — and early morning — took a turn. "I don't really know where anyone went at one point and everyone, like, had fallen asleep [because it] was so late," she told Khloé. "I wasn't drinking. So it's like I definitely knew what was going on."

"So, at the end of the night, it's like 5 a.m., we're at this house party, no one to be found. [I] cannot find anyone. Don't have my money. — realize my $20 is gone. All I have is this address," Kim said, emphasizing the bleak situation her younger self had found herself in. With just the address and no money, Kim lamented that she had no idea how she was going to get from the random house to her friend's home.

Enter Wesley Snipes.

"I'm walking out, and I don't know if Wesley Snipes lived in the building or what, but he was there," Kim remembered. "We were passing each other, and I was like, 'Hi, sir. I'm so sorry... but do you think you can give me a ride home?'"

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Snipes, now 63, agreed to bring Kim to the address written on her hand, on the condition that they stop for breakfast, given the early time. "I was probably terrified," Kim admitted, but told her sister that Snipes wasn't "giving off any creepy vibes."

"He probably thought you were some drunk crazy kid," Khloé reasoned, despite Kim's assertion that she hadn't been drinking. "Probably he was like, 'Let me feed this person and let's soak her up before she goes home.' You know, when you're young and you think you look so much older — you probably thought you were like passing for 25, he could tell you're a young kid."

Wesley Snipes attends the 77th Annual Golden Globe Awards in 2020.

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Kim acknowledged that he sister had a point, especially considering her reveal that Snipes took the opportunity to start “schooling me like he's my father" over breakfast. "I don't know how old you are, but you're too young to be out this late," the mother of four recalled Snipes telling her. "You're too young to be at parties, if there was a house party there or whatever... You shouldn't be out at the clubs. You shouldn't be at these things. I'm going to take you home, and I never want to see you out at these things until you're old enough."

The rest was history. "I've never seen him again," Kim lamented. "He saved my life. He schooled the s--- out of me. Scared me to death about being at club because [after] I'm like, 'Oh, I'll never be at a club again.'"

Kim confessed that she still hopes to cross paths with the actor one day so she can tell him she was the "teenage girl in New York that you took to a cafe."

"Shout out to Wesley Snipes," Kim concluded. "I hope this message gets to you that you are a lifesaver!"

Watch Kim's interview with Khloé for *Khloé In Wonder Land* above.**

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