“Orange Is the New Black” star and LGBTQ+ advocate Laverne Cox took to Instagram on Saturday to share that she and her friend were the victims of a transphobic attack that has left her “in shock.”
In an Igtv video, Cox detailed that she went for a socially-distanced walk with a friend in Los Angeles’ Griffith Park, and soon encountered a man who aggressively asked them for the time.
“The friend that I’m with looks at his watch and tells him the time, and then the guy who asked for the time says to my friend: ‘Guy or girl?'” Cox said. “My friend says, ‘Fuck off.'”
According to Cox, the man then proceeded to attack her friend, hitting him several times.
“I look back and I’m like ‘What is happening?’ The guy is like hitting my friend, and then my friend is going toward him and I’m like ‘Holy shit!
In an Igtv video, Cox detailed that she went for a socially-distanced walk with a friend in Los Angeles’ Griffith Park, and soon encountered a man who aggressively asked them for the time.
“The friend that I’m with looks at his watch and tells him the time, and then the guy who asked for the time says to my friend: ‘Guy or girl?'” Cox said. “My friend says, ‘Fuck off.'”
According to Cox, the man then proceeded to attack her friend, hitting him several times.
“I look back and I’m like ‘What is happening?’ The guy is like hitting my friend, and then my friend is going toward him and I’m like ‘Holy shit!
- 11/29/2020
- by Variety Staff
- Variety Film + TV
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