Actress Selma Blair says she ‘didn’t intend to hurt anybody’ in aircraft altercation

Blair’s publicist described the actress’s bodily achievements since her MS prognosis as “nothing in need of a miracle” and stated she nonetheless lives with ache each day.

“Selma had by no means been arrested earlier than Sunday night time,” she stated. “There’s way more to this story than has been reported and we ask to contemplate the whole lot of the info earlier than speeding to judgement, whether or not within the courtroom or within the courtroom of public opinion.”

The incident occurred on a flight travelling from Los Angeles to New York on Sunday night. New York airport officers responded to a name about “a bodily abusive passenger” on a Delta Airways flight. Two flight attendants had been harm and one was taken to hospital, the New York Port Authority stated.

A pilot requested for medical assist, describing “a bloody nostril” and “some chew marks”, based on audio recorded on air site visitors management obtained by CBS Information, the BBC’s US accomplice.

Blair was arrested and brought to hospital. She was issued a federal summons by the FBI for a cost of assault inside the particular maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the US that pertains to the on-board altercation.

The 2 extra prices of assault had been filed in state courtroom after she was taken off the aircraft. She has pleaded not responsible to these prices and was launched on bail.

Further reporting by Rebecka Pieder