Eight years into sobriety, Selma Blair is looking back at her lowest point.
In a candid interview published Wednesday, the actress recalled being kicked off a plane in June 2016 for “drinking too much in Mexico.”
“I was extremely confused, dehydrated and hungover, but didn’t realise I had a neurological problem,” she said. She told Us Weekly He described the experience as “horrifying and humiliating.”
“I didn’t understand anything,” said Blair, 52. “I had no choice but to grow up.”
The “Cruel Intentions” star said his multiple sclerosis diagnosis in 2018 in his 40s “wouldn’t have happened” if he hadn’t quit drinking.
She added: “I wouldn’t be a good mother. [to 13-year-old son Arthur] Unless I was drunk. I was self-medicating.”
Mr Blair has previously spoken about the “truly disorienting” and “horrific” plane crash in October 2016, describing it as a “total psychotic blackout”.
The “Mean Babies” author clarified on “The Talk” at the time that he “doesn’t drink anymore,” and said the headline-making incident happened after he had a glass of wine and took an unfamiliar drug.
“In fact, it was so outrageous for me, especially as I’m a mother, that I felt sorry for myself afterwards,” she continued. “It was the wrong choice in every way. I’m completely remorseful and I won’t do it again.”
Blair was traveling from Cancun to Los Angeles with her son Arthur and his father, Jason Blake, at the time.
She was taken off the plane on a stretcher, screaming, “He won’t let me eat or drink, he hits me.”
The “Hellboy” star apologized the following day for the “huge mistake.”
“After a wonderful trip, I mixed alcohol with drugs, blacked out and said and did things that I deeply regret,” she said. He told Vanity Fair June 2016.
The first time Blair got drunk, she was seven years old. Confessing to “Today” viewers “I could have died on that plane” in 2022, he said.
She argued:[The desire to drink] “It’s just gone from me. I don’t mean to brag about it; you have to be constantly on your guard. But it’s really gone.”
