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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“I didn’t understand anything,” said Blair, 52. “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.”
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 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.”
“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.”
