Just B Rant: Distressed in the City

punched in the face. And I didn't realize that a bunch of people said this, but I happened to fall upon one of the videos and in the comments, I said, oh my god, this is insane. This happened to me, and I did a video about it, but I didn't post it because I was embarrassed. And then I saw this everywhere because there's apparently a crime spree in New York.

People are getting punched in the face. So I was going into New York City to look at an apartment and I hadn't really been in New York in a while, to be honest. It's like since I've since the pandemic, I've been out of the city, and I don't really go in unless I'm going to work and I'm in the car and I go to the shoot and I leave and I come home. I kind of run back to the nest. So even though I live so close to New York City, I'm not really there that much.

And it's very transactional, if that makes any sense. I'm not just popping in to go have dinner. I'm popping in to get hair makeup done in a hotel room, which was what was going on. I know, do have an apartment, but and then go into a studio shooting something, then getting in the car and going home. So this day I went to go look at apartments and I saw this cute like little, tiny like bakery slash deli and it was tiny, and I walked in and was just shooting some of the treats and had my phone,

which sounds like a trend. It sounds like a lot of the people who have been on the street on their phone. And I was walking out. As I was walking out, a guy punched me in the face and I freaked out and it was jarring, and it was just like the girls because they were punched, but not to the point where they got a black eye, like they got like a little goose egg or it was just like more jarring and alarming. It wasn't like a punch to kill, you know. It was almost like a

punch to just punch somebody. And the exact same thing happened. And my driver, Slash Security, was outside. He wasn't obviously in the bakery with me because he's also minding the car, and I gave him the look to nod over to this guy who was this homeless guy who had just punched me, and he went over and like got in the guy's face, and I was like, let's just get

the fuck out of here. And I called the realtor and I said, I'm texted the realtor and I have the text and said, I don't want to do this anymore. I don't want to see an apartment like it. Just I thought it was reflecting Manhattan, like Manhattan wasn't back. Manhattan's unsafe. It freaked me out that I was just in a small, tiny bakery Delli and got punched in the face. I thought, oh my god, what has happened

to New York? Is this the seventies again? And so now it was so weird to see that it had been happening to other people, all much younger than I am, not that that's relevant, but and other areas. And they said they caught someone, and I saw the guy and it wasn't the same guy. It didn't seem to be the same guy. And I showed a Milio my driver, but that was really fucked up. But TMZ and other people said in a recently deleted comment, and I didn't delete.

I don't think you can delete a comment on someone else's post. But I also don't know why they said it was deleted, because it's not deleted. It's still on that person's post. I don't even know where that person's post is. But someone from my team's screen grabbed me and it's still there, so a I didn't delete it, but I don't know how to delete someone on someone else's post. I don't know if you could do that,

but see it happened, and I have the text. I looked up the text last night because everyone's so crazy in this world that everywhere it's like that any claims to have been punched in the face anyway, I know they can't say it definitely happened because they weren't there and they don't have video. And the video that I did have wasn't of me being punched in the face. It was of me saying, holy shit, I just got punched in the face. But I never posted it because

I was sort of embarrassed. It just felt weird to be like, Hi, I got punched in the face, because I I don't know. I guess we talk about all our stupid things and cottage cheese and makeup, but like it just felt like, what's the point of me telling everybody this? It freaked me out, And in the past I had been criticized for saying New York wasn't safe,

and so I just I don't know. I just didn't but I didn't delete it, and I have the text where I said to the realtors, holy shit, cancel, I don't want to see I don't want to do this anymore. I just got hit in the face, is what I said. Not punched. I got hit in the face, which I don't know what the difference is, but I got hit, not punched. Maybe it wasn't close fist, I don't remember, but crazy. The best possible example of my favorite quote from Lauren Michaels, which is you have to make an

exit to be able to make an entrance. Is Lindsay Lohan. Lindsay Lohan and five point zero is really incredible and it's funny because she'll confirm this. I predicted this. I think it had to be three to five years ago. I reached out to her team and said I wanted to produce a documentary with her about her and predicted her coming out on the other side in this way.

Remember she was in Greece dancing on the tables and she was like, I don't know if it's called a gift or a meme or whatever, but like it was a whole thing, and Mikonos and people were making fun

of her, and I reached out to her. I met her years ago at a nightclub at One Oak, like partying, and I don't know, there was something about her that we connect did to each other in the most non but also superficial of ways, and we kept in touch via social media, not all the time, but just once in a while she'd what's at me or message me and there was always a mutual respect. And I never told her this, but one time I went to go look at an apartment in New York City, and it

was an apartment that she had been renting. I was looking to buy and she had been renting it. But anyway, we sort of just very sporadically would message each other on social media, and I was just always watching her. And then I reached out and wanted to do something with her. Wanted to do some version of just her story.

And so I'm on the sidelines watching and I'm really excited and happy for her and love that she made an exit to make an entrance, and she was just such an excellent child actor and she fell down the wrong tube and she certainly did it with passion and fire. I also was out to dinner with her in La I just remembered that with a group of people at

the Chateau Marmont. And good for her, good for her having a son, good for her being in a relationship, good for her checking out, good for her checking in, and good for her not letting her story be told for her. She grew up, she was a young, she was a kid, and now she's an adult and she gets to reframe her life and her story and she gets to come in on her own terms. And she's

a legitimate, good actress. So that's a lot. Oh and by the way, having done that Lifetime movie one time in my whole life, there was a version of pressure that was different than any other type of pressure. And

I'm not like a celebrity an actress. I just mean like having to be a person that an entire set, an entire crew, a cast relies on thinking about what they're thinking of you, thinking about if you know what you're doing, memorizing your lines, being present, the boredom in between, the early call times, the late staying there really late, the late night shoots, all of it is not easy.

It's a lot of pressure. And so to start that as a child and then be successful at it and make money at it and be famous, and then everybody else wants you to be something and do something, and people pulling you and to be I think in some version, I'm sure she was supporting members of her family, like that's a pressure, or just she's the brain maker in her family, she's a breadwinner. That's a pressure. Like, I don't know how any of these people survive this. I

really don't. Like I've heard Justin Bieber has had crazy stuff go on, you know. I mean, we've observed that, but just a child star and I'm sure he supported parts of his family or they relied on him like this is not an easy road and for someone that young to withstand that and deal with that, I mean, Michael Jackson, Macaulay Culkin, Justin Bieber, Lindsay Lohan, it's Amanda Binds, and like the list goes on. This is not a situation where it's easy to go into fame as a

child and thrive and survive. It's too much. It's a boulder on your back as a child. I actually think it's unfair. I would not want that for a brand at all. She does these little videos mimicking what I do, but that's where it starts and stops. She doesn't have the weight of the world on her back, and a kid should not have a weight of the world on

her back. It really should. They shouldn't think about how many examples there are a it being insane like Lindsay Lohan was just a victim of her circumstances, so good for her.