Vitalii Sediuk has a keen knack for getting the world to sit up and take notice of him by attacking Kim Kardashian.
Speaking exclusively to The Hollywood Reporter by phone from his home in Paris, Sediuk confirms it was him.
"I had a feeling that Kim would show up there because she is friends with the designer of Balmain. If it was Kanye West, I would have done it like I did it with Bradley Cooper and Leonardo DiCaprio," he says. "But with Kim Kardashian, I was very cautious because I know she is a woman -- so I kind of hugged her legs. I already had a bad experience with America Ferrara. It’s different with men."
Sediuk, who only last week told THR that he had sworn off celebrity ambushes forever, says he mounted the stunt because he was trying to "bring attention to my protest." (He is protesting being placed by U.S. Customs and Border Protection on a no-fly list, which he learned as he attempted to board a Los Angeles-bound plane from Istanbul to begin 52 court-ordered psychological counseling sessions.)
"It doesn't bring me anything," Sediuk says of the stunts. "It doesn't bring me income. I'm already banned in America. I could be banned in the European Union next. I hope I will not be."
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