Actress Selma Blair was arrested and taken to a hospital on Sunday night after she was accused of injuring two flight attendants on a plane from Los Angeles to New York.<\/p>\n
Blair, 54, was detained by police at around 11pm after the Delta Air Lines jet parked at the gate at John F Kennedy International Airport, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said in a statement.<\/p>\n
Blair and one of the flight attendants were taken to a hospital for evaluation, the Port Authority said.<\/p>\n
Details of what happened aboard the aircraft weren\u2019t immediately disclosed by the airline, police or the FBI, which was investigating, but Delta said in a statement it \u201chas zero tolerance for unruly or unlawful behaviour, as the safety of our customers and crew always comes first\u201d.<\/p>\n
A Blair representative told The Associated Press that the actor had a medical emergency that led to the alleged conduct.<\/p>\n
The FBI later issued Blair a notice charging her with assault, according to a federal law enforcement official who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n
The matter will be handled through the petty violations court in federal court in Brooklyn. No date has been set for Blair\u2019s appearance.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not the first time Blair has had issues aboard a plane.<\/p>\n
In 2016, the actress apologised for making statements she later regretted during a flight from Cancun to Los Angeles.<\/p>\n
She said she had mixed alcohol with medication, causing her to black out.<\/p>\n
Blair had major roles in films including 1999\u2019s Cruel Intentions, 2001\u2019s Legally Blonde and 2004\u2019s Hellboy.<\/p>\n
In recent years, she has advocated for disability rights and she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2018.<\/p>\n
In 2023, she joined President Joe Biden at the White House to celebrate the anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Actress Selma Blair was arrested and taken to a hospital on Sunday night after she was accused of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":653770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,1042,60,1094,386],"class_list":["post-653769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-international","tag-ireland","tag-report","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}