Actress Joey King says a plane passenger thought she had cancer, could 'catch' it from her

Actress Joey King has called out a rude passenger on a plane who thought he could "catch" cancer from her.

On Monday, the 19-year-old tweeted about her disturbing encounter.

"Y'all I'm on a plane & this man next to me literally turned to me with his phone in my face & took a photo of me as if I wouldn't notice & texted his wife that he's sitting next to a girl who has cancer (just cuz I'm bald) & that hes scared to 'catch it'," she wrote. "Y R PPL STUPID SUMTIMES."

The actress said she looked over the man's shoulder and saw the text to his wife read, "Some bald chick next to me with Fckn cancer coughed and I don't wanna catch it."

King shaved her head in October, for a role in the upcoming anthology series The Act.

"My name for the next 4 months, is Gypsy Rose Blanchard," she wrote on Instagram, captioning a video of her head being shaved. "This story is very disturbing and I am honored to be able to portray it. What a wild ride this will be on 'The Act' @hulu."

In an interview with Allure, the actress revealed that her major hair change didn't phase her very much.

It's the third time King has buzzed her hair for a role.

When she was 12 years old, the actress sported a shaved head for the 2012 film The Dark Knight Rises and then again in the 2014 movie, Wish I Was Here.