After six years of relentless study, sleepless nights, and a few viral meltdowns along the way, Kim Kardashian has finally revealed the results of her latest law exam — and this time, she passed. The 44-year-old reality star-turned-legal reform advocate announced her success in an emotional Instagram video, telling fans, “I can finally say it — I did it. I passed the bar.”
But it wasn’t just her triumph that made headlines — it was her candid confession that ChatGPT had once “completely sabotaged” her earlier attempt at the notoriously difficult exam. “I trusted AI too much,” she admitted in a recent interview with Vogue. “It literally made me fail. I thought I could use it to quiz me, but the answers it gave were all wrong.”
The moment marks the end of a six-year odyssey that began when Kardashian shocked fans by announcing her plan to become a lawyer back in 2019, inspired by her late father, Robert Kardashian Sr., who famously defended O.J. Simpson. “Everyone laughed at me at first,” she told The Hollywood Reporter. “But I knew I had to prove I could do this — not for fame, but for justice.”
“After failing three times, Kim Kardashian has finally passed her law exam. She says she once relied on ChatGPT — and it gave her the wrong answers.” @Variety
Kardashian’s law journey has been anything but easy. She first enrolled in California’s four-year “law office study program,” a rigorous alternative path to becoming an attorney without attending law school. The exams are brutal — only about 20% of candidates pass on their first try. Kim failed the “baby bar” twice before finally passing on her third attempt in 2021. But the full bar? That was another level entirely.
“It felt impossible,” she admitted to The Independent. “There were nights I cried because I thought I’d never get there. Then I made the mistake of relying on AI study tools — and it backfired hard.”
According to Kardashian, she used ChatGPT to create mock exams and practice essays. “It sounded confident, but the legal logic was totally off,” she explained. “I realized too late that it was giving me outdated or made-up information. It was like studying from a hallucinating robot.”
Her admission comes as a growing number of students have begun relying on AI tools for professional exams — with mixed results. “AI isn’t designed to practice law,” noted legal educator Laura Cox. “It can be helpful for structure, but the details it fabricates can literally make you fail.”
Kardashian’s final test took place earlier this summer. “I went totally offline for three weeks before the exam,” she said. “No ChatGPT. No AI. Just books, flashcards, and human tutors.”
The payoff, she says, felt surreal. “When I saw the word ‘PASS,’ I just screamed. My kids came running into the room, and we all started crying.”
“Kim Kardashian is officially a lawyer after six years of study. She says AI made her fail before — so she went back to basics.” @enews
Her mentor, attorney Jessica Jackson — known for her work on criminal justice reform — said Kim’s dedication was “unlike anything she’d ever seen.” “She’s not doing this for headlines,” Jackson told CNN. “She’s doing it because she wants to free people who don’t have a voice. That’s real.”
Since beginning her legal studies, Kardashian has helped fund and advocate for the release of several wrongly incarcerated individuals, including Alice Marie Johnson, whose life sentence for a nonviolent drug offense was commuted after Kim’s intervention with the Trump administration. The moment became one of the most defining of her career outside reality TV — and it set her on a new path.
Still, her critics haven’t been kind. Social media has been flooded with posts mocking her for blaming AI for past failures. “Only Kim K could make ChatGPT the villain in her bar exam story,” one user joked on X. Another wrote, “Some people fail the bar, others fail humanity.”
But others defended her honesty. “She could’ve blamed stress, time, anything — but she owned it,” one fan commented on her Instagram post. “We’ve all trusted Google too much at some point.”
“She failed. She tried again. She passed. That’s the real lesson — not the AI part.” @TODAYshow
Her journey has drawn attention from educators and policymakers alike, who see it as a test case for the intersection of technology, celebrity, and professional ambition. “She represents a generation trying to merge human discipline with machine intelligence,” said Forbes contributor Lydia Greene. “And sometimes, the human part still wins.”
In her announcement video, Kardashian wore a simple gray hoodie, no makeup, and a teary smile. “I know people doubted me,” she said, looking directly into the camera. “But I hope I showed that even if you fall flat on your face — even if an algorithm screws you over — you get up and try again.”
Her next step? Joining a criminal defense firm in Los Angeles while continuing her work with The Innocence Project. “I’m not done learning,” she said. “I’ll probably still use AI for research — but I’ll double-check every answer this time.”
And with that, the internet’s most famous student finally became its most unexpected lawyer — proof that persistence, not perfection, can rewrite even the most unbelievable story.
