Kim Kardashian's legal ambitions hailed by Alice Johnson: 'I'm so proud of her for following her passion'
The woman who Kim Kardashian helped get pardoned from a life sentence said she's proud of the reality star for continuing her criminal reform efforts, amid Kim's recently stated goal to become an attorney.
'What she's doing is incredible - and she is dead serious about it,' Alice Marie Johnson told TMZ Tuesday as she promoted her her new memoir After Life: My Journey from Incarceration to Freedom, which Kim wrote the foreword for.
The 63-year-old New York native last year was pardoned from a life sentence stemming from a 1996 conviction on nonviolent drug charges, after the reality TV queen, 38, took up her cause with President Donald Trump and his son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner.
The latest: Alice Marie Johnson, the woman who Kim Kardashian helped get pardoned from a life prison sentence, said she's proud of the reality star for continuing her criminal reform efforts amid Kim's recently stated goal to become an attorney. The pair was snapped last year
Johnson praised Kim for her courage in putting her brand clout in danger amid her work with Trump and Kushner in her efforts to reform the criminal justice system, with the focus on non-violent drug offenders previously sentenced to life behind bars.
'Kim took a great risk, at the time, in terms of even going to the White House, in terms of her brand,' Johnson said. 'As you know, celebrities who were going were not being treated very well on social media.'
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Johnson said Kardashian was undaunted by the threat of professional blowback, however: 'Kim said she didn't care, she only wanted to see me free and whatever that took, she was going to do it.'
Johnson also praised Kim amid her recent declaration that she was pursuing becoming a lawyer, with an eye on taking the bar exam in 2022.
Her story: Johnson is promoting her her new memoir After Life: My Journey from Incarceration to Freedom, which Kim wrote the foreword for
Legal eagle: Kim was snapped last year at the White House to discuss Johnson's case
'I'm so proud of her for following her passion,' said Johnson. 'My case has awakened something in Kim that was laying dormant the whole time - I was just a catalyst to wake it up.'
Johnson said she's been emotionally moved by the foreword Kim penned for her forthcoming tome.
'I keep reading it every time, I can't help but cry when I read it,' Johnson said. 'It's from her heart, Kim's life might have been changed by me, but my life has been changed by her too.'
After Life: My Journey from Incarceration to Freedom goes on sale Tuesday.
Famous: Johnson hailed Kim's public work with President Donald Trump as courageous, noting that it could have impacted Kim's brand for the worse. Kim and Trump were snapped in 2010 in NYC
Happy day: Johnson was snapped last month at the White House with the president
