A man has apologised to “all Malaysians” for making sexual comments about a stranger during a TikTok livestream, saying he had been caught up with the live comments during the stream and went too far.
The man, who made the offending comments on a livestream on the “Hazren Rich Empire” TikTok account (@hazrenrich54), which appeared to have been deactivated, said in an apology video that he took responsibility for his comments.
“Let’s consider this my mistake. It was a human mistake. No one has ever not made a mistake, right? This is my first mistake.
“So, I apologise to everyone. Okay? I apologise.
“So after this, if anyone wants to comment and call me stupid, that’s up to you. I have already apologised,” he said in a video initially shared on the @hazrenrich54 TikTok account, then apparently deleted and reshared via a separate TikTok account (@markyen_60).
The man also defended his wife’s laughter in the livestream, saying she was not laughing at his comments, but at something she had read.
“She has nothing to do with this,” he said.
In a clip of the livestream, which had gone viral and been harshly criticised by many, the man is eating at a restaurant with his wife, and commenting about a woman sitting at a table next to them.
Among others, he can be heard speculating about the woman’s lack of undergarments, and saying that he would like to grope her.
X user @snugdeal3r shared the video, criticising the man as a “potential rapist in the making”.
“Sexual harassment in public because some of you enable it and think this is funny?” she said.
The woman in the video, a Russian model named Alisa Kasimova, later said in a post on Threads that she had lodged a report about the livestream at the Dang Wangi police station.
“Everyone told me to go to the police and I did. I did it not out of anger, but because silence only protects those who hurt others. No woman should ever feel afraid to stand up for herself,” she said.
