“The Boys” star Karen Fukuhara urged people to “Stop Asian hate” as she opened up about being attacked while going for coffee recently.
The actress is one of the latest victims in a growing number of horrific attacks on people of Asian descent in the U.S. Fukuhara spoke about the incident in a bid to raise awareness, with her slideshow Instagram message including: “I rarely share about my private life but something happened today that I thought was important. “I was walking to a cafe for some coffee and a man struck me in the back of my head.
It came out of nowhere. We made no eye contact before, I wasn’t doing anything out of the ordinary. “It came to my surprise and my hat flew off.
By the time I looked back, he was a few feet away from me (he must have kept walking after hitting me).” READ MORE: ‘The Boys’ Star Karen Fukuhara Accepts IMDb ‘Fan Favourite’ STARmeter Award Fukuhara explained how she thought about confronting him but didn’t think it was worth the risk. “After a few seconds of staring at each other and him yelling at me, he eventually walked away,” Fukuhara said.
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