Olympic gymnast Suni Lee revealed she was the victim of an anti-Asian attack: 'I didn't do anything to them,' she told PopSugar. 'I didn't want to do anything that could get me into trouble. I just let it happen.'
won a gold medal at the individual all-around finals and made history as the first Hmong American to compete at the Olympics. In the months that followed the Games, she started college at Auburn University and has become a standout contestant of this season of, she said that becoming a household name didn’t stop her from experiencing a recent anti-Asian attack.
Lee told the outlet that on a recent night out, she was with a group of friends, who are also of Asian descent, waiting for a rideshare car to arrive when a group drove by and began to yell racist slurs at them. She added that one of the passengers tried to pepper-spray her, ultimately hitting her arm.
“I was so mad, but there was nothing I could do or control because they skirted off,” she said. “I didn’t do anything to them, and having the reputation, it’s so hard because I didn’t want to do anything that could get me into trouble. I just let it happen.”
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