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She says she was out in downtown L.A. when she made eye contact with a "homeless man" who looked like he was about to hit a car with a piece of metal.
"Before I knew it, a big metal bolt, like a pipe, hit me," she said in a video update on Instagram. She says the man hurled the metal object at her and hit her in the face.
"He literally flung it from the street," she said. "He was not even close to me at all."
The video shows Glass with a swollen black eye, stitches on her brow and a bloody cut across the bridge of her nose.
Glass' Instagram video explaining the incident.@itskimglass | Instagram
She says she suffered multiple fractures to her face in the attack.
"Right now it looks like my vision will be OK," she added in the video.
She appears to be holding back some intense feelings in the clip, and she begins to cry toward the end of it.
"Be safe out there," she told her followers. "You shouldn't have to be fearful when you walk, but it's true."
She added that bystanders pinned her alleged attacker down and held him until police arrived.
Semeon Tesfamariam, 51, was arrested and faces an assault with a deadly weapon charge, police told the Sacramento Bee.
His bail was set at $30,000 and he was still in jail on Tuesday.
