Karen Fukuhara says she is “physically fine” after a man attacked her on the one-year anniversary of the Atlanta spa shootings.
Karen Fukuhara, who stars on the TV show “The Boys,” said she is “physically fine” after a man attacked her on the one-year anniversary of theOn Wednesday, Fukuhara wrote on Instagram that a stranger struck her in the head “out of nowhere” earlier that day while she was walking to a cafe. Though the actor rarely discusses her personal life on public platforms, she said she thought it important to share what happened to her in light of surging anti-Asian hate crimes.
“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 .” “This is the first time I’ve been harmed physically, although racial slurs and hurtful actions have been directed to me in the past. I write this, because I’ve had conversations with multiracial friends of mine that had no idea these hate crimes happen to everyday, regular people — people that they share meals with. I felt it was important to raise awareness.”
“Ultimately I know I got lucky,” Fukuhara wrote on Wednesday. “He could have come back to hit me again. He could have carried a weapon. The shock of this experience has me thinking about taking self-defence classes. Several cast members of “The Boys” also sent messages of love and support to their co-star via Instagram. On the Amazon series about the superhero industrial complex, Fukuhara plays powerful superhuman Kimiko Miyashiro.