Bethenny Frankel says she was randomly punched in New York City a couple of months ago.
The reality star, 53, made the revelation in the comments section of a Tik Toker who said she was randomly punched in New York City.
Bethenny wrote in the comments section of Mikayla Toninato’s Tik Tok video about her assault.
‘This is insane bc this happened to me a few months ago but I was embarrassed to say. I was on the UWS [Upper West Side]. I was taking video of a bakery,’ she wrote in the comments section via Page Six, which she has since deleted.
Bethenny Frankel says she was randomly punched in New York City a couple of months ago; The reality star, 53, made the revelation in the comments section of a Tik Toker who said she was randomly punched in New York City
Bethenny wrote in the comments section of Mikayla Toninato’s Tik Tok video about her assault; Mikayla pictured
Mikayla’s video that Bethenny commented on was her talking about how she was assaulted walking home
Mikayla’s video that Bethenny commented on was her talking about how she was assaulted walking home.
Mikayla said in her Tik Tok video, which was shared on Tuesday: ‘I just got punched in the face, walking home. I was literally like leaving class, I turned the corner and I was looking down and I was looking at my phone, and like texting, and then out of nowhere, this man just came up and hit me in the face.’
Mikayla’s video has over 10.6 million views.
Another Tiktoker named Halley Kate had a similar attack on Monday – recounting it on her page.
‘You guys I was literally just walking, and a man came up and punched me in the face,’ she said.
‘Oh my God, it was so bad I can’t even talk,’ she added.
The video now has over 41.1 million views.
Another Tiktoker named Halley Kate had a similar attack – recounting it on her page
‘You guys I was literally just walking, and a man came up and punched me in the face,’ she said
A third Tik Toker named Olivia Brand recounted her assault in the Big Apple. Her attack took place on March 17.
She said she was walking and ‘literally got punched in the head on the sidewalk. He goes, “Sorry,” then punches me in the head.’
Olivia added: ‘Holy c**p, what the hell just happened? Oh my God.’
Her video has over 5 million views.
After Bethenny’s comment on Mikayla’s Tik Tok, the reality star appeared to have deleted it.
She did not further divulge about the incident.
According to Page Six, more than 25 women have revealed on Tik Tok they were randomly attacked in New York City in the past few months.
The growing number of random punching attacks in New York City seemingly appears to part of a disturbing trend called the knockout game – where strangers punch random strangers in New York City with the intent of ‘punching them unconscious.’
The so-called violent game began in 1992 after Yngv Raustein, a MIT grad student, was attacked by a group of local teenagers in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Yngve was attacked and punched by the teenagers, who then stabbed him; he succumbed to his injuries.
They had told proscecutors att the time that their goal was to to ‘floor a stranger’ with just one punch.
They had added that if they were unsuccessful, they would be targeted by witnesses.
The purpose of the sick game is to inflict violence on strangers.
It resurfaced in 2017 and most recently was rampant in 2021 and 2022.
In 2022, there were a reported 20 incidents by August of that year.