{"id":113328,"date":"2025-11-02T01:55:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T01:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/113328\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T01:55:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T01:55:07","slug":"family-sue-royal-caribbean-over-intoxicated-mums-fatal-fall-on-taylor-swift-cruise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/113328\/","title":{"rendered":"Family sue Royal Caribbean over intoxicated mum\u2019s fatal fall on Taylor Swift cruise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MbfQjTgmSESMkkDykl\" style=\"display:none\">Her family allege she was served \u201cat least seven\u201d drinks over the course of six hours and eight minutes before a cruise guest became concerned and escorted her back to her room.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MbfQjTgmSESMkkDykl\" style=\"display:none\">They believe crew on the ship \u201cwere negligent for continuing to serve her alcoholic beverages in her intoxicated state\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MbfQjTgmSESMkkDykl\" style=\"display:none\">White\u2019s body has been missing since she climbed over the railing of her cabin balcony and fell overboard on October 22 last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MbfQjTgmSESMkkDykl\" style=\"display:none\">Her daughter Megan Klewin witnessed her mother falling overboard after initially believing she was tending to the luggage they had stowed on the balcony.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MbfQjTgmSESMkkDykl\" style=\"display:none\">She told CBS Miami she believes all-inclusive drink packages encourage the over-consumption and over-service of alcohol.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MbfQjTgmSESMkkDykl\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThese crew members are incentivised to continue to serve them, because that\u2019s how they make their tips,\u201d she said, claiming her mother had likely become so inebriated in an effort to \u201cget her money\u2019s worth\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MbfQjTgmSESMkkDykl\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cShe was completely intoxicated in a way I haven\u2019t seen before. It saddens me that this is my last memory of her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MbfQjTgmSESMkkDykl\" style=\"display:none\">Royal Caribbean have refused to address the filing, telling the Daily Mail the cruise giant does not \u201ccomment on pending litigation\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MbfQjTgmSESMkkDykl\" style=\"display:none\">In her obituary, White was described as an \u201cexceptional\u201d cook and baker, talented decorator and loving mother.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MbfQjTgmSESMkkDykl\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cShe was a safe place to land and always had a solution to any problem, big or small; any time Dulcie was needed, she made herself available.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Her family allege she was served \u201cat least seven\u201d drinks over the course of six hours and eight&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[74,21558,52688,2372,138,17092,2037,6179,3592,2109,11784,52208,30504,111,139,69,90,1523,17091,9855,45341,69329,11208,80796,163,80797,1354],"class_list":["post-113328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-after","tag-beverages","tag-blaming","tag-board","tag-business","tag-caribbean","tag-cruise","tag-died","tag-fall","tag-family","tag-fatal","tag-intoxicated","tag-mums","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-on","tag-over","tag-overboard","tag-royal","tag-served","tag-sue","tag-swift","tag-swiftthemed","tag-taylor","tag-unlimited","tag-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}