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    Sober Selma Blair recalls being kicked off plane over ‘humiliating’ drunken outburst: ‘I had to grow up’

    By Riley Cardoza,

    3 hours ago

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    Eight years into her sobriety journey, Selma Blair is looking back at her lowest moment.

    The actress recalled being kicked off an airplane in June 2016 after having “too much to drink in Mexico” in a candid interview published Wednesday.

    “I was so messed up and dehydrated and hungover and didn’t know I had neurological issues,” she told Us Weekly of the “horrifying and humiliating” experience.

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    Sober Selma Blair is looking back on her June 2016 plane incident. Selma Blair/Instagram
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    She was removed from a flight after a “horrifying” drunken outburst. TMZ
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    The actress told Us Weekly about the “humiliating” experience. Getty Images

    Selma Blair details how service dog Scout reminds her to take her MS medication

    “I didn’t understand anything,” Blair, 52, said. “I had to grow up.”

    The “Cruel Intentions” star noted that her 2018 multiple sclerosis diagnosis in her 40s “would not have happened” without quitting alcohol.

    She added, “I wouldn’t be a good mom [to 12-year-old son Arthur ] unless I was sober. I self-medicated.”

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    She had to “grow up” after it happened. Spread Pictures / MEGA
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    Blair last spoke about the incident in 2022, saying she “could have died.” London Entertainment / SplashNews.com

    Selma Blair hits the red carpet with her service dog Scout at the Tribeca Film Festival

    Blair previously spoke about her “really disruptive” and “frightening” plane incident in October 2016, calling it a “total psychotic blackout.”

    The “Mean Baby” author, who clarified on “The Talk” at the time that she did not “drink anymore,” said she the headline-making moment occurred after a glass of wine and a pill she was unfamiliar with.

    “I had empathy for myself actually afterwards because it was actually so out of character for me, especially because I’m a mother,” she continued. “Bad choice all around. I totally own it, will not happen again.”

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    By October 2016, she was no longer drinking. Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images
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    She confessed to mixing a glass of wine and a pill. WireImage

    Blair was traveling with son Arthur and his father, Jason Bleick, from Cancun to Los Angeles at the time.

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    She was taken off of the aircraft in a stretcher after exclaiming in part, “He won’t let me eat or drink. He beats me.”

    The “Hellboy” star released an apology for her “big mistake” the following day.

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    The combination led to a “psychotic outburst.” Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images
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    “He won’t let me eat or drink,” she screamed at the time. “He beats me.” Getty Images

    “After a lovely trip … I  mixed alcohol with medication, and that caused me to black out and led me to say and do things that I deeply regret,” she told Vanity Fair in June 2016.

    Blair got drunk for the first time at age 7, confessing to “Today” show viewers in 2022 that she “could have died on that plane.”

    She claimed, “[The desire to drink] is gone from me. I’m not cocky about it. You have to always be vigilant. But it’s really gone.”

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