Tan France says he was the victim of a horrifying assault when he was a young child just old enough to attend kindergarten. France recently sat down with ITV’s “This Morning” and opened up about how racism and colourism have impacted him.
The “Queer Eye” star said that he was viciously assaulted by a group of men when he was only a child. “It’s the reason I don’t live in the UK now.
I was 5 walking to school and on my own. My mum was working, my brother who would normally go to school with me was sick,” France said, via Daily Mail. “A group of men beat me and left me for dead and it was purely because I’m Pakistani and in England. “It was common, it happened very regularly.
Part of the reason I wanted to bleach was that people wouldn’t realize I was Asian.” READ MORE: Karamo Brown Was Told ‘I Don’t Interact With Black Folks’ While Filming ‘Queer Eye’ In Texas The “Queer Eye” star also shared how he bleached his skin earlier in life as a consequence of colourism. “I could get access at 9.
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