Bethenny Frankel Shares More Details of Alleged Attack in NYC

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have come forward on social media with claims of being punched in the face while walking down the streets of New York City. On March 27, , saying that she, too, had been assaulted while minding her business on the street.In a TikTok comment posted on , Frankel wrote, “This is insane bc this happened to me a few months ago but I was embarrassed to say.

I was on the [Upper West Side]. Insane. I was taking video of a bakery.” After her story made headlines, she elaborated in a follow-up video posted to TikTok on March 28, which featured the text “I was punched in the face."This content can also be viewed on the site it from.“So many of you have wanted to punch me in the face at one point or another, and someone else did do it for you,” she begins. “I saw a woman talking about the fact that she had been punched in the face on the street, and I commented, ‘oh my god, the same thing happened to me.' I actually recorded my reaction to it that day, but felt embarrassed or weird to post it.”She then went on to give a play-by-play of the encounter. “I was in New York City looking for an apartment, and I stopped at this cute little deli-bakery tiny place,” Frankel says.

As she was exiting the hole-in-the-wall shop, she adds, she was hit in the face.“[He] hit me,” she clarified, "it wasn't like a closed fist…I was completely stunned and I walked outside [to] my driver, who's also security.

I looked at him and gestured over to this man, this homeless man, to explain to him that I had just been hit, but I didn't want to provoke this guy even more," she continues.