Sylvester Stallone’s daughter Sistine Stallone is sharing details behind an unsettling encounter she experienced recently in New York City in a bid to help women stay vigilant when out in public.
On a recent episode of her Unwaxed podcast, which she shares with sister Sophia, the 26-year-old reality star opened up about a terrifying ordeal she had with a random man on the streets of Manhattan.
“There was this guy on a bike that just started screaming really inappropriate profanities at me, but I just kept moving. I didn’t even acknowledge it,” she said on the podcast. “But he comes up behind me on his bike and puts his hands on me and that’s when I freaked out, and then he started screaming at me.”
The Rocky star’s daughter said she immediately tried to extricate herself from the situation and proceeded to run.
“I just start sprinting, like just take off as fast as I can go,” she said. “And he is cutting through the crowd on his bike. Three blocks later, still running for my life, and I run into the Sephora there.”
But ducking into the store wasn’t much help to the celebrity offspring.
“I’m hiding behind a makeup counter, and I think that I lost him. And I see that he’s inside the store, and he’s screaming at the top of his lungs, ‘You can’t hide from me, bitch! I will find you, I will get you!’ “
Sistine said she snuck further to the back of the store, but realized that if he made his way to her she would be “screwed.”
“And at this point he has like five employees trying to box him out of the store,” she explained. “In the middle of all of this I’m hiding in the back of the store for 15 minutes, I’m on the ground like in a bug formation. If he comes back here, I’m screwed. I see four cops take him to the back of the store.”
Sistine said her experience should serve as a warning to women heading out on their own.
“I’m really hoping that this reaches all females, because the saddest thing is we see videos every day of New York girls — ‘Oh, they got assaulted on the West Side Highway, oh, they got groped on this street.’ Don’t have your headphones in, don’t be looking down,” she warned.
On X, where a clip of the segment racked up over 78,000 views, native New Yorkers confirmed Sistine’s ordeal is something all too common in the city.
“I live in NYC, so I can tell you it’s not safe at all, but especially for women,” one person wrote, while another added, “It’s concerning to hear about such incidents.”
In a recent episode of their Paramount+ reality series, The Family Stallone, which also stars the girls’ mother Jennifer Flavin and other sister Scarlet, Stallone spoke about his worries when Sophia and Sistine moved to New York, recalling his own experiences with crime when he lived there as a young man.
“Since you guys have moved to New York, it’s made me very uneasy. You know I’m paranoid anyway because I have a responsibility as a father to do everything I can,” he said.
During their chat, the daughters said that their dad brought them up to always be on alert and even taught them how to “fight off a coyote.”
“He made us practice pepper spraying each other,” Sistine said, adding that as a child he put “a little knife in my backpack in fourth grade.”
The episode also featured the girls participating in self-defence classes hosted by several Navy SEALs.
“I’m not playing a game. These are the guys that have seen combat, faced death. This is the real deal,” Stallone said.
Sistine said in an interview with the New York Post that Stallone was “a classic, overprotective dad.”
“I don’t think he’ll ever be less nervous,” she said. “Three daughters at an age where, you know, we’re kind of all over the place and we’re out and about.”