Bethenny Frankel claims she was PUNCHED on a NYC street – amid string of female TikTokers being attacked at random in daylight
Bethenny Frankel says she was randomly beaten in New York City a few 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 about her attack in the comments section of Mikayla Toninato’s Tik Tok video.
‘This is crazy because this happened to me a few months ago but I was ashamed to say it. I was on the UWS (Upper West Side). I made a video of a bakery,” she wrote in the comments section via Page sixwhich she has since deleted.
Bethenny Frankel says she was randomly beaten in New York City a few 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
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Bethenny wrote in the comments section of Mikayla Toninato’s Tik Tok video about her attack; Mikayla in the photo
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In Mikayla’s video that Bethenny commented on, she talked about how she was attacked while walking home
In Mikayla’s video that Bethenny commented on, she talked about how she was attacked while walking home.
Mikayla said in her Tik Tok video, which was shared on Tuesday: ‘I just got punched in the face while walking home. It was literally like I was leaving class, I turned the corner and I looked down and I looked at my phone, and I was texting, and then, out of nowhere, this guy came up to me and hit me in my face.’
Mikayla’s video has been viewed more than 10.6 million times.
Another Tiktoker named Halley Kate had one similar attack on Monday – tells it on her page.
“Guys, I was literally walking and a guy came up to me and punched me in the face,” she said.
“Oh my God, it was so bad I can’t even talk anymore,” she added.
The video now has over 41.1 million views.
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Another Tiktoker named Halley Kate had a similar attack and shared it on her page
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“Guys, I was literally walking and a guy came up to me and punched me in the face,” she said
A third Tik Toker named Olivia Brand told about her attack in the Big Apple. Her attack took place on March 17.
She said she was walking and “was literally hit in the head on the sidewalk. He says, ‘Sorry,’ and then hits me on the head.”
Olivia added: ‘Holy c**p, what the hell happened? Oh my God.’
Her video has been viewed more than 5 million times.
After Bethenny’s comment on Mikayla’s Tik Tok, the reality star appeared to have deleted it.
She did not reveal anything else about the incident.
According to Page Six, more than 25 women on Tik Tok have revealed that they have been randomly attacked in New York City in recent months.
The growing number of random punch attacks in New York City appears to be part of a disturbing trend called the knockout game – where strangers punch random strangers in New York City with the intention of “knocking them unconscious.”
The so-called violent game began in 1992 after Yngv Raustein, an MIT student, was attacked by a group of local teenagers in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Yngve was attacked and beaten by the teenagers, who then stabbed him; he succumbed to his injuries.
They had told prosecutors at the time that their goal was to “knock a stranger to the ground with just one punch.”
They had added that if they were not successful, they would be targeted by witnesses.
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The goal of the sick game is to inflict violence on strangers.
It resurfaced in 2017 and was most recently widespread in 2021 and 2022.
By 2022, twenty incidents had been reported by August of that year.