Bethany Frankel stated in a since-deleted TikTok comment that she was randomly attacked in New York City.
The reality TV star dropped the comment on a TikTok video posted by a fashion design student who was sharing her assault experience. The fashion design student said in her video that she was walking home when someone randomly punched her.
“This is crazy (because) it happened to me a few months ago, but I was embarrassed to say it,” said the Real Housewives of New York City former student said in a deleted comment but captured by Page six. “I was on the UWS (Upper West Side). Insane. I was shooting a video of a bakery.”
The outlet reported that Frankel retracted the comment on Tuesday. His story comes amid several TikTokers sharing their experience of being randomly attacked while walking the streets of New York City.
Halley Kate, who has 1.1 million followers on TikTok, posted a video of herself fighting back tears as she recounted her own experience.
“Guys, I was literally walking and a man came up and punched me in the face,” she posted on Monday. “Oh my God, it was so bad. I can’t even talk.”
The fashion design student whose video briefly featured Frankel’s comment said in his video that she was returning home after getting out of class. She said she was “looking at my phone and texting, and then out of nowhere a man came up and hit me in the face.”
No word if Frankel ever reported the assault to police. But the story she and the other women shared smacks of the so-called “knockout game,” where people throw random punches at unsuspecting people walking down the street. According to NPRIt’s a disturbing phenomenon that resurfaced a decade ago.
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