Ann Oldenburg

USA TODAY

Model/actor Corey Sligh is recovering from a Thanksgiving beating that left him hospitalized with a broken arm and multiple injuries.

Sligh, 27, who played a bartender on The Young and the Restless, was on his way with his girlfriend, Alisa Berhost, to help deliver a Thanksgiving meal to a friend. He was in a West Hollywood Rite Aid parking lot when he approached two guys who were speeding around, driving erratically.

"They almost hit people in the parking lot," Berhost told KCAL9's Laurie Perez outside Cedars-Sinai, where Sligh is being treated. "They were hitting curbs, and Corey said, 'Please slow down or we're gonna call the cops, just go home.' "

The men didn't go home. Instead they got out of the vehicle and began beating Sligh.

"The guy walked up on him like 'I'm in the mood to kill somebody and this is who it's going to be because he told me to be careful and slow down and go away,' " she said.

LAPD confirmed two men were arrested who had exchanged words with the couple, hit Sligh with their car and got out of the vehicle and began beating him. They had fled the scene, but crashed their car near the scene.

Sligh shared a photo of himself in the hospital on Instagram.

"I'm happy to have the problem of relearning to walk instead of not being able to walk at all," he tells TheWrap. I'm pretty blessed."