Selma Blair was arrested on a Delta flight headed to JFK Airport on Sunday after allegedly attempting to open a plane door mid-flight and attacking two flight attendants. According to reports, she punched one crew member and bit another. Two flight attendants were injured, and one was taken to the hospital. Blair was arrested and transported for a medical evaluation, where she remains as the FBI investigates the incident.
The biting allegation is drawing extra attention because Blair has joked about biting before. In her 2022 memoir, she admitted to biting Kate Moss, Sienna Miller and Seth MacFarlane, describing one incident in which she grabbed a person’s arm and bit it“playfully, as if it were an apple.”What played as a quirky confessional back then reads very differently against a federal investigation.
The story raises hard questions about in-flight safety, celebrity accountability and mental health, and it’s still developing. Flight attendants deal with unruly passengers far too often, and an incident at altitude puts everyone on board at risk. What do you think should happen next in this case?
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