Selma Blair recalls ‘humiliating’ drunken plane outburst that got her ejected: ‘I was so messed up’
nypost.comUs Weekly in an interview published Wednesday. “I was so messed up and dehydrated and hungover and didn’t know I had neurological issues.
I didn’t understand anything.”“It was horrifying and humiliating,” she added. “I had to grow up.”The “Legally Blonde” actress was traveling with her then-4-year-old son, Arthur Saint, and his father, Jason Bleick, when she was removed from the plane on a stretcher and taken to the hospital after mixing her medication and alcohol.At the time, Blair allegedly cried out “he burns my private parts.
He won’t let me eat or drink. He beats me. He’s going to kill me,” according to reports.The 52-year-old, who got sober in 2016, issued an apology a few days after the incident.“I made a big mistake yesterday,” Blair told Vanity Fair in a statement. “After a lovely trip with my son and his dad, I mixed alcohol with medication, and that caused me to black out and led me to say and do things that I deeply regret.”Blair says that she started drinking alcohol in excessive amounts to suppress “jerks and spasms” that she had over the years.
At first, she thought the spasms were due to mental issues, but figured out the cause behind them in 2018.“Once I knew I had MS [multiple sclerosis] which I’d had for a while [things] made so much more sense,” she told Us. “And I actually became much happier.”“I wouldn’t have been able to be diagnosed with MS unless I was sober.
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