The Young and the Restless star Corey Sligh says he was beaten by two men on Thanksgiving. The incident occurred while the soap actor was headed to a Rite Aid in West Hollywood to deliver food to a friend.
Sligh’s girlfriend Alisa Berhost, who was with him at the time, explained what happened to KCAL9‘s Laurie Perez. “[The assailants] almost hit people in the parking lot. They were hitting curbs, and Corey said, ‘Please slow down or we’re gonna call the cops, just go home,'” the actress recalled.
Police told ABC News that the men then hit Sligh with their car and got out to fight him. “The guy walked up on him like, ‘I’m in the mood to kill somebody and this is who it’s going to be because he told me to be careful and slow down and go away,'” Berhost told Perez. Afterward, the two men fled the scene and crashed their vehicle.
Sligh is still recovering at Cedars-Sinai in L.A., and posted a picture from his hospital bed on Friday, Nov. 28. “Hey kids, went to feed some people last night who don’t have blessed thanksgivings and along the way got struck by a drunk driver!” he captioned the pic. “Have a surgery to go [to] and another couple days in the hospital but should be fine soon!” he wrote. “Thankful to still be on this great planet! Love y’all!”
He added to The Wrap: “It was pretty scary [being] on the hood of that car, but I’m happy to still be able to move my neck. I’m happy to have the problem of relearning to walk instead of not being able to walk at all. I’m pretty blessed.”
