Corey Sligh is lucky to be alive. The model and part-time Young and the Restless star is recovering at home from injuries he sustained during a brutal beating last Thursday night. According to Sligh, per an interview with The Wrap, he and his girlfriend were delivering warm meals on Thanksgiving evening to friends who could not get off work when the incident occurred. They pulled up to a Rite Aid at the corner of Fairfax and Sunset in West Hollywood and spotted a young man flying around the parking lot in a Mercedes while his friend filmed the dangerous driving with a camera. “He wasn’t just doing donuts,” Sligh says . “He was flying through the parking lot, going like 40. The car was inches from hitting cars, curbs, and buildings and they were both just laughing.” After delivering his plate of food to his friend, Sligh says he told the guys to go elsewhere because they were scaring girls in the vicinity. He then started to walk away and… “I turned around and the car was three feet away and coming at full speed. The next thing I know I’m up on the hood of the car, flipping off of the side. I thought it was over.” The actor’s girlfriend helped him up get up while witnesses called the police, but the assailants returned. “They both attacked me. One guy hit me repeatedly in the face. I looked up and saw the other guy shoving Alisa and [our female friend],” Sligh explains. “I tried going over there while the first guy was hitting me. I had to tackle one of the guys to get him off and that’s when my arm snapped.” The police eventually arrived and apprehended the men, as Sligh was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and kept there until early Sunday morning. Doctors had to put screws in Sligh’s arm and he’s confined to a wheelchair for awhile, but he’s somehow not bitter. “It was pretty scary [being] on the hood of that car, but I’m happy to still be able to move my neck,” he told The Wrap. “I’m happy to have the problem of relearning to walk instead of not being able to walk at all. I’m pretty blessed.”
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Corey Sligh, The Young and the Restless Star, Savagely Beaten on Thanksgiving
