{"id":577578,"date":"2026-04-11T08:19:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T08:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/577578\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T08:19:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T08:19:10","slug":"natasha-lyonne-says-ice-agents-detained-her-after-plane-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/577578\/","title":{"rendered":"Natasha Lyonne Says ICE Agents ‘Detained’ Her After Plane Incident"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tNatasha Lyonne<\/a> claimed that Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officers \u201cdetained\u201d her after she was escorted off a recent flight<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tResponding to a post from E! News on X<\/a>, Lyonne shed some light on the reports that she \u201cseemed out of it\u201d while seated in the first-class section of the redeye flight. The actress acknowledged that she had taken Lunesta (a medication used to treat insomnia) to \u201censure some shut eye\u201d so she would be \u201cbushy tailed & beauty rested\u201d for an appearance on The Drew Barrymore Show.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tLyonne continued, \u201cWas looking forward to seeing Drew & an in depth convo, but I guess ICE<\/a> had other plans & I was detained instead. Sign of the times, I guess. Thanks for all the love and support. Never had a problem with @Delta or @TSA before. Heart is with our unpaid @TSA workers. Apologies to any travelers who were delayed.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tICE agents have been deployed at airports<\/a> around the country, ostensibly to provide extra security amid staff shortages for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) caused by the Department of Homeland Security shutdown. A rep for DHS (which oversees both ICE and TSA) rebuffed Lyonne\u2019s statement, saying, \u201cNeither ICE nor TSA escorted or detained Natasha Lyonne.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAccording to an original Page Six report, Lyonne was escorted off the plane after allegedly failing to respond to flight attendants\u2019 orders when they asked her to close her laptop and buckle up. While the aircraft did taxi for takeoff, it ultimately returned to the gate, where staff reportedly helped Lyonne deplane.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tResponding to the initial reports, Lyonne said her \u201cheart is with all the unpaid TSA agents at our airports,\u201d and acknowledged missing her scheduled appearance on Barrymore\u2019s show. She also ultimately did arrive in New York and was spotted Thursday night<\/a> at the premiere of a new documentary about Saturday Night Live boss Lorne Michaels.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tIn another post<\/a> on Friday, Lyonne seemed to wave off any questions or concerns about how she was doing, encouraging people to rewatch Russian Doll for a reminder that \u201care you okay\u201d is her \u201cleast favorite of all our generic, small talk phrases.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tShe continued: \u201cNever know how in depth people really wanna go, so I rarely ask it unless I mean to sit with someone for 6 hours and truly listen to the answer. \u2018How are you\u2019 is up there too. Do people really mean it when they ask each other those things? Is anyone \u2018okay\u2019? Pretty grateful and doing pretty good. Been surfing a lot. Writing a lot. Seeing theater.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThis story was updated at 6:13 p.m. ET with a statement from a DHS rep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Natasha Lyonne claimed that Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officers \u201cdetained\u201d her after she was escorted off a recent…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":577579,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88,2483,492],"class_list":["post-577578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ice","tag-natasha-lyonne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}