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Here’s a new one. Actress Alicia Hannah-Kim filed a police report against her Cobra Kai co-star Martin Kove alleging that he bit her while they were at a fan convention. No charges have been filed against the 78-year-old Kove yet, but he was asked to leave the premises.
According to the police report obtained by The Wrap, Alicia Hannah-Kim told a police officer working the VIP section of the Washington State Summer Con that when she passed by Martin Kove in a VIP area and said hello to him he “suddenly grabbed her arm and bit her upper arm so hard it nearly drew blood, and she yelled out in pain.” She added that after biting her Kove started kissing the area where he bit her.
When Hannah-Kim and her husband Sebastian Roche, who reportedly witnessed the incident, chastised Kove for what he had done, he “exploded on them saying something to the effect of how dare they confront him, and he did not do anything wrong.” He also insisted that “they play fight all the time on the set of Cobra Kai.”
TMZ also reports that she told police Kove “was furious and outraged and visibly angry when I told him calmly not to bite me … he insisted he bit me for fun.”
The 37-year-old Cobra Kai actress reportedly chose not to press charges despite the police telling Martin Kove that what he did was, in fact, a crime. Instead, she requested there be an informational report filed “in case this continues.” The report included photos of a “very noticeable bite mark on her arm that was already turning blue and bruising.”
Kove, who has played the character John Kreese in The Karate Kid film and TV franchise since 1984, reportedly apologized to Hannah-Kim and her husband then was told to leave the convention “due to his behavior” by police and not to return.