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It’s been 5 years since Kim Kardashian, 42, helped Alice Marie Johnson, 68, who was serving a beingness condemnation for a cause conviction, get pardoned by erstwhile President Donald Trump successful 2018. In a afloat ellipse moment, the brace got unneurotic for Alice’s Five Years Free lawsuit she hosted successful Beverly Hills to commemorate her Golden Anniversary. In photos seen HERE, Alice and Kim sat adjacent to each different connected a couch, and North West, 9, joined arsenic well. Kim, who donned a acheronian grey harvest apical and trousers set, and Alice, who wowed successful a silky reddish dress, had thing but praises for 1 another.
“Alice ever acknowledgment me, but I ever convey her due to the fact that done this process I consciousness similar she’s truly fixed maine purpose, and I deliberation to find your intent successful beingness and to find what you tin bash for different radical is specified a almighty thing,” Kim gushed astatine the event, per Stand Together, for which Alice is an ambassador. Meanwhile, Alice called Kim her “war angel” successful her heartfelt speech. She stated, “I’ll beryllium everlastingly grateful to those who ne'er stopped believing successful maine some wrong of situation and out, particularly my warfare angel, Kim Kardashian. It is incredibly meaningful to beryllium capable to observe this milestone with truthful galore friends, loved ones, and supporters.”
Alice Marie Johnson was pardoned from her beingness condemnation by Donald Trump aft Kim Kardashian advocated for her merchandise (Photo: Shutterstock)
Alice besides honored those who person been freed and who are inactive serving agelong sentences successful situation for non-violent acts. “But this lawsuit is not conscionable a solemnisation of my ain state – it’s a solemnisation of each the fantastic things that truthful galore others person accomplished with their ain 2nd chances, galore of whom attended tonight’s event,” she explained. “It’s captious that we support spotlighting their occurrence stories portion we combat for those inactive trapped successful the strategy – we volition not hide them. I americium committed to what we tin execute successful the adjacent 5 years.”
Alice, who was locked up for 21 years for her engagement successful a cause trafficking conspiracy, appeared on Fox 11 Los Angeles connected Tuesday, June 6 and spoke astir however her narration with Kim has grown since she was released from prison. “We telephone each different family. I’m truthful thankful that I did not cognize who Kim Kardashian was [when she archetypal began helping my case]. … It gave maine an accidental to cognize Kim arsenic a quality being, arsenic a friend,” she explained with a grin connected her face. “So we developed a enslaved erstwhile I was inactive successful situation and erstwhile I came retired and we met for the archetypal time, it was magic. It was similar gathering an aged friend.”
The national prisoner-turned-criminal betterment advocator and is the CEO and laminitis of Taking Action for Good, said she and the Kardashians star are inactive successful interaction to this day. “Since that time, our narration has blossomed. It has grown,” Alice confirmed. “When I person things that I americium moving on, Kim likes to assistance enactment things that I’m passionate about.”
Alice Marie Johnson speaks astatine the 2019 White House Prison Reform Summit and First Step Act solemnisation connected April 1, 2019 (Photo: Shutterstock)
Alice said erstwhile she got her footing post-prison, she instantly helped merchandise 3 of her friends from situation who she described arsenic “like daughters” to her. “Kim jumped close into that,” Alice noted. “I tin ever beryllium upon her that if I’m moving into a ceramic wall, that she’ll help.”
The ngo of Alice’s enactment is to “use storytelling to enactment quality faces to America’s failed transgression justness strategy and to beforehand justness and mercy by reducing—through aboriginal releases—the fig of men and women who are needlessly incarcerated.” Alice explained during her interrogation that she is simply a premier illustration of the bully that tin hap erstwhile radical are fixed 2nd chances.
“When radical spot me, it does thing to them due to the fact that I americium a human. I’m a mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother … I person 5 beardown [pieces of] grounds of what redemption looks like, what a 2nd accidental looks like,” she said. “There has ne'er been a twelvemonth that I’ve conscionable been stagnant. My beingness has purpose. I’m mission-driven to assistance arsenic galore deserving individuals get a 2nd accidental arsenic possible.”
Kim is studying to becoming a lawyer to proceed moving connected transgression justness reform. She besides has dreams of opening up her ain instrumentality firm 1 day. In 2019, Kim helped 17 first-time nonviolent cause offenders permission prison, per CNN.
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