Kim Kardashian Reveals How Her ‘Bad-Ass’ Divorce Attorney Laura Wasser Inspired Her All’s Fair Character (Exclusive)

Kim Kardashian didn't have to look far to find inspiration for her All's Fair character.

In PEOPLE's All's Fair digital cover story, the reality star, 45, says that she looked to her own divorce lawyer Laura Wasser when playing lawyer Allura Grant in the new Ryan Murphy legal drama. Wasser also served as a writing consultant on the series.

"Laura happened to be my attorney for two divorces out of the three, and her dad was my mom [Kris Jenner]'s attorney during her divorce with my dad [Robert Kardashian],” says Kardashian, who worked with Wasser during her divorces from exes Kanye West in 2022 and Kris Humphries in 2013 (she also divorced Damon Thomas in 2004). “So she has 40 years of stories, and I felt like I drew inspiration from seeing what a bad-ass woman she's been.”

Set in L.A., All’s Fair follows Allura as she and her female colleagues leave a male-dominated firm to open their own practice. As the team takes on new cases and clients — played by guest stars like Judith Light, Brooke Shields, Jessica Simpson and Rick Springfield — they also navigate personal relationships, secrets and shifting allegiances.

Murphy was inspired to craft the All’s Fair world around Kardashian — who shares kids North, 12, Saint, 9, Chicago, 7, and Psalm, 6, with West — after they worked together on her first major acting role in the 12th season of his American Horror Story: Delicate. 

At first he approached her with a show idea based upon her more than 15 years on reality TV, both on Keeping Up With the Kardashians and The Kardashians.

“I was just like, ‘No, I don’t think that’s something that I’d be into,’" Kardashian recalls. “I think he was really shocked by that.”

Murphy then came back to her once again, this time with a show idea based on her seven-year law journey.

“I was so for it,” she says. “I think what was really interesting is he came up with the concept first. Then he came up with his dream cast. Once everyone signed on, he wrote for every person. He said it’s usually the opposite.”

As Murphy would text Kardashian about each new addition to the cast, which also includes Glenn Close, Niecy Nash-Betts, Sarah Paulson, Naomi Watts and Teyana Taylor, “I’d be like, ‘No way!’ ” she says. “I didn’t even believe it was real until I showed up.”

Related Stories

We Talked to the All’s Fair Cast About Merkins, Divorce and Lube—and It Was as Hilariously Chaotic as It Sounds

Kim Kardashian Calls Costar Naomi Watts to Borrow Lube amid ‘Fashion Emergency’ with Latex Pants

During filming, Kardashian also juggled studying for the bar exam, which she took in July after six years of a law apprenticeship and passing both the baby bar and the Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination (a test required in California for candidates to be able to take the bar without an accredited law school education). She finds out her results in November.

“She was studying the law and dealing with this character and running lines,” says Watts. “She crushed it daily.”

Kardashian admits to her costars that she felt like she “tortured you guys reading my flashcards” in between lines.

“It wasn’t torture—I was amazed,” says Close. Adds Nash-Betts: “It was women supporting women in front of and behind the camera.”

All's Fair premieres on Hulu on Nov. 4.