Kristin Cavallari details seeing an intruder in her bedroom while her son slept next to her

Kristin Cavallari says she was the victim of a break-in with her family while on vacation.

The “Hills” star said on the Dec. 17 episode of her “Let’s Be Honest” podcast that the incident happened during a 2020 spring break family trip to the Bahamas when they ended up staying on the island for a month because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Cavallari was there with her then-husband Jay Cutler and their three kids, Camden, 12, and Jaxon, 10, and daughter Saylor, 9.

The last week they were there, they moved from a condo to a house and Cavallari kept her jewelry laid out in a closet. The HVAC unit went on the fritz, so workers were summoned in to repair it.

“That night, I had Camden in the bed with me. Cam and I were sleeping,” she said, noting they had gone to bed early and she wasn’t aware where everyone else was.

“I woke up to my bedroom door opening, and it woke me up because of the light from the kitchen. And I woke up to a man crawling on my bedroom floor. And I was so out of it because obviously I had just woken up,” she said. “And I go, ‘What the f— are you doing?’ I said it like that. And this man stands up and runs out the door, and, you guys, he had a ski mask on, full black arms, black pants, the full thing, right? And I went ‘oh, f—.’”

She had no idea who the person was and she managed to keep her cool.

“Because Camden was in the bed with me, I didn’t yell. I didn’t scream,” she said. “You think in those moments that that’s what you would do, but your instincts just kick in. I honestly felt like I was in ‘Mission: Impossible.’”

She found Cutler, who was sleeping in another room with their other two kids.

“Once I woke Jay up, then I got really nervous. Then I (got) really scared,” she said. “I started shaking, I was able to process then what just happened. But until that point, I was not scared. I was really calm. Again, you just are running off of instinct.” 

Cavallari, who announced in 2020 that she and Cutler planned to divorce, said she has not told her kids what happened.

“That’s just one that I think would really scare them,” she said.

She also said they figured out who was responsible for the break-in.

“Long story short, he took all of the cash that we had in a backpack. We ended up getting it back. We found out who it was. It was the HVAC guy,” she said.

For Cavallari, the incident still stings.

“That was one of the scariest things that I went through,” she said, while adding she doesn’t plan to tell her kids about it anytime soon.

“I will not tell them, probably, until they’re adults because I just think some things kids do not need to know. And scary stuff like that, I will take that one.”