Selma Blair’s Pathetic Defense of Her Dangerous Airplane Outburst — Transcript

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1. 0:00Selma Blair out of her mind on a
2. 0:03on a flight from LA to JFK.
3. 0:07Um, we're going to look at local New
4. 0:09York City news coverage of her
5. 0:11arraignment on October 12th, and then
6. 0:13you and I are going to talk about this.
7. 0:15Here we go.
8. 0:16>> not go within 100 yards of this
9. 0:18individual. Do you understand, Ms.
10. 0:20Blair? Yes or no?
11. 0:21>> Yes, sir.
12. 0:22>> We just left criminal court here in
13. 0:23Queens where actress Selma Blair was
14. 0:25brought in in handcuffs. Uh, she was
15. 0:28shedding tears as the judge read those
16. 0:31charges. Two counts of assault against a
17. 0:33police officer and a nurse she's accused
18. 0:35of kicking the police officer and the
19. 0:38nurse that arrested her after an
20. 0:39outburst on the Delta flight she was on.
21. 0:42Delta flight 938 Sunday night from Los
22. 0:45Angeles to JFK. The judge also issued a
23. 0:48protective order against the nurse she's
24. 0:50accused of kicking. Now, according to
25. 0:52air traffic controller audio, uh, there
26. 0:55was some sort of incident where a flight
27. 0:57attendant and a passenger on the plane
28. 0:59needed medical attention at the gate.
29. 1:01>> One flight attendant and one passenger
30. 1:03that sustained some minor injuries. Uh,
31. 1:06a bloody nose as well as some
32. 1:08bite marks as well.
33. 1:09>> Her attorney said the behavior was a
34. 1:10result of exhaustion and skipping her
35. 1:13meds she takes for multiple sclerosis.
36. 1:17>> You know, Rob, when I'm exhausted, you
37. 1:20know what I do?
38. 1:21I um, assault multiple people at once
39. 1:25and I attempt to open the door of the
40. 1:29commercial flight I'm on midair. That
41. 1:32actually truly tracks with someone who's
42. 1:34just completely exhausted and skipped
43. 1:36their prescription medication. Talk to
44. 1:38us about this story and the way in which
45. 1:40you are seeing it covered in the
46. 1:42mainstream media.
47. 1:43>> Yeah, I think people are treading
48. 1:44carefully on this initially because we
49. 1:47know she has suffered with major health
50. 1:49complications. And so, I do believe
51. 1:52people were giving her the benefit of
52. 1:54the doubt until we started to dig into
53. 1:57this a little bit. It is a miracle. for
54. 1:59Thank goodness for those flight
55. 2:01attendants who were on her immediately.
56. 2:04This plane could have gone down. We
57. 2:06could have a very different story today.
58. 2:09So
59. 2:09>> agree with you more, Rob. And I have to
60. 2:11say something. This is where I I'm going
61. 2:13to begin on the nerve to continue to to
62. 2:17really push uh
63. 2:19further than most other people would
64. 2:21want to go, maybe.
65. 2:23I'm sorry if you have
66. 2:26a neurodegenerative
67. 2:28condition that is untreatable
68. 2:31or barely treatable, but really you're
69. 2:34going to be decompensating the rest of
70. 2:36your life. I'm truly sorry. That this is
71. 2:38the second time this woman has gone out
72. 2:41of her mind on a commercial flight while
73. 2:44in midair, okay? And they're going to
74. 2:46try to medicalize this. That's what her
75. 2:48team is going to do. So everybody just
76. 2:50back the off because Selma Blair
77. 2:52has multiple sclerosis, which by the
78. 2:54way, I saw an incredible post on Twitter
79. 2:57by someone who is in the medical field.
80. 3:00Um I'm going to pull it up and read it.
81. 3:03He says he doesn't necessarily believe
82. 3:06she has MS.
83. 3:07People with MS
84. 3:09don't go on Dancing with the Stars years
85. 3:12and years after their condition. It's
86. 3:14from Zachary Grin. I've said it before
87. 3:17and I'll say it again. You cannot have
88. 3:19MS since childhood as Selma Blair
89. 3:21claims, receive no treatment for
90. 3:24decades, and then have zero physical
91. 3:26deficits. Yes, there are recent videos
92. 3:29and we will show them here of her
93. 3:31jumping, running, and dancing with zero
94. 3:35physical impairments. She was highly
95. 3:37symptomatic in her documentary.
96. 3:40Maybe she very recently did develop MS,
97. 3:43but that doesn't explain her narrative
98. 3:45of lifelong symptoms. I can't imagine
99. 3:48that people living with MS, this is such
100. 3:50a great point, that people living with
101. 3:52MS can look at Selma Blair and think
102. 3:54that she represents their struggles and
103. 3:57what they struggle with as a disability.
104. 3:59I'm sorry, but same thing. Same thing.
105. 4:01If it whether she has it or not, she is
106. 4:04a net negative to the community of
107. 4:06sufferers who have MS and she is a
108. 4:08public menace who should never
109. 4:11be allowed to fly on commercial aircraft
110. 4:12again. Delta should ban her as should
111. 4:15all major carriers.
112. 4:16>> Yeah, I I think that's a really lenient
113. 4:18punishment here. She nearly brought down
114. 4:20a plane. Let's be honest about it here.
115. 4:22She tried to open the door of a plane in
116. 4:25flight and thank God for that passenger
117. 4:27and those flight attendants who are the
118. 4:29heroes of this story, not her. They're
119. 4:32going to weaponize her her medical
120. 4:34condition. They're going to try and and
121. 4:35pull at people's heartstrings about
122. 4:38that, but so far I've got to admit I've
123. 4:40been pretty satisfied with the coverage.
124. 4:43We we saw the judge really snap back. He
125. 4:45called her the gold standard. That's
126. 4:48what her lawyer, that's what Selma
127. 4:49Blair's lawyer called her in court. The
128. 4:52gold standard. She's someone we should
129. 4:53look up to, he went on to say. He said
130. 4:56that her body of work speaks for itself
131. 4:59and the judge said
132. 5:00>> I'm sorry, she a bit part and cruel
133. 5:02intentions?
134. 5:03Elevates this woman above the criminal
135. 5:05justice system. By the way, there were
136. 5:07troublemakers who had incredible points.
137. 5:09One of which is she was taken there's
138. 5:12audio of her screaming her head
139. 5:14off at JFK once they got hold of her.
140. 5:17And by the way, the flight attendant and
141. 5:18the passenger who intervened these
142. 5:20heroes. One got a broken nose
143. 5:21for her pro for her Wait, she broke
144. 5:24someone's nose. She kicked a nurse.
145. 5:25She's trash. She kicked a Who kicks a
146. 5:28nurse? She bit somebody. She has a
147. 5:30history. She wrote about it in her
148. 5:31memoir. What she likes to do with people
149. 5:33is bite them, okay? You are a public
150. 5:35health hazard. You are biting people.
151. 5:38Um they took her to Queen's Hospital.
152. 5:41Uh and um is it right Is that the right
153. 5:44name of the hospital? I'll find it. But
154. 5:45anyway, they evaluated her and they cut
155. 5:47her loose, which means she wasn't having
156. 5:49a psychotic break. She wasn't. She was
157. 5:52out of her mind, I'm going to say it, on
158. 5:54booze and street drugs. That's my
159. 5:57opinion of what was going on here.
160. 6:00>> The the the fact that she was in court,
161. 6:02standing up, without a cane, may I ask?
162. 6:05Without a cane.
163. 6:06>> Hey, Selma, take a note from Harvey. Get
164. 6:09yourself a walker. He That's what he
165. 6:10did.
166. 6:11>> Yeah, wheel yourself in. Get a
167. 6:12wheelchair, wheel yourself in. And so, I
168. 6:14think here, this is going to really
169. 6:16explode. She's facing up to 7 years in
170. 6:18in jail. And and I think that
171. 6:20a judge and a jury could find her very,
172. 6:22very easily guilty of that. And let's
173. 6:24let's be honest here about about Selma
174. 6:26Blair. Before her diagnosis, she was
175. 6:30notorious for being a Hollywood mean
176. 6:32girl. She was a Blake Lively. This is
177. 6:35somebody who has never been very kind,
178. 6:37who has never been very easy to be
179. 6:40around, who certainly has a very high
180. 6:42opinion of themselves. She's the type of
181. 6:45celebrity that makes us really dislike
182. 6:48celebrities. And I think this entitled
183. 6:50behavior that that we've seen again and
184. 6:52again and again. And once again, this is
185. 6:54not her first plane incident. Back in, I
186. 6:57think, 2016,
187. 6:59there was another incident on the plane.
188. 7:01>> Not an incident. A total
189. 7:04freakout meltdown that was terrifying.
190. 7:06And I have to I just I'm just going to
191. 7:08push back on this wording, which I
192. 7:09understand you using because it's the
193. 7:11way it's reported. Incidents, events.
194. 7:14Imagine you're on that plane and
195. 7:16somebody a passenger starts losing their
196. 7:18mind and they're you know, like
197. 7:20you're you're already stressed, you're
198. 7:22in midair, you place your life in the
199. 7:23hands of pilots you don't even know. You
200. 7:25know what I mean? And then this happens,
201. 7:27you're terrified you're terrorizing
202. 7:29people.
203. 7:30>> It is terrifying. You're absolutely
204. 7:33right about this. And now she is going
205. 7:36to be held accountable. And and I hope
206. 7:37the system really works. I don't believe
207. 7:40her minor celebrity will be able to
208. 7:43convince people otherwise. She's not
209. 7:45Angelina Jolie, she's not Jen. We do
210. 7:47know, I'm not saying it's a good thing,
211. 7:49but we do know the criminal justice
212. 7:51system is often bedazzled by
213. 7:53celebrities. We saw this in the Diddy
214. 7:55case. We've seen this in other cases. I
215. 7:57don't think it's going to work for her.
216. 7:59I I think here that that she's going to
217. 8:01get, hopefully, her appropriate
218. 8:03punishment. And this this excuse that
219. 8:05her lawyer's making, that she forgot to
220. 8:07take her medication, she's not
221. 8:08>> the way, Rob, and they're they're
222. 8:10ladling on Parkinson's now.
223. 8:12>> I saw that, too. I saw that, too.
224. 8:14>> Now, she's also got Parkinson's. What's
225. 8:15next? What's next?
226. 8:18>> She's not 10 years old. She's not She's
227. 8:20a grown-ass human being. She managed to
228. 8:23get on that flight, managed to take your
229. 8:25medication.
230. 8:27It
231. 8:28It The whole thing reeks of celebrity
232. 8:31entitlement, reeks of celebrities who
233. 8:34have a different criminal justice
234. 8:36system. And that's why this story has
235. 8:38really exploded. Normally, in in in in
236. 8:41in my business and in in our business,
237. 8:43it needs an A-list celebrity to get this
238. 8:45type of attention, and she's certainly
239. 8:47not that. However, her behavior so
240. 8:52touched people's nerves because we have
241. 8:54seen people get away with stuff. We've
242. 8:57seen people misbehave at airports. It's
243. 9:00a really triggering time to to fly. Lots
244. 9:03of stuff is going on in the world.
245. 9:05Nobody Nobody feels relaxed on planes
246. 9:07anymore. And then to have a minor
247. 9:10celebrity cause such a fuss, and not
248. 9:13just a fuss, put the flight and
249. 9:15everybody on that flight at risk. If you
250. 9:19want to complain about the peanuts,
251. 9:20knock yourselves out. If they don't have
252. 9:22the right champagne for you, be a
253. 9:24be a diva, but the minute you start to
254. 9:27threaten the lives of everybody on that
255. 9:31plane, we have to be really, really
256. 9:33strong here. And I don't care if you
257. 9:35have MS, I don't care if you're in a
258. 9:37wheelchair, what she did was wrong. And
259. 9:39And just on an earlier point, I know two
260. 9:41people who are are really suffering with
261. 9:44MS and they're horrified today that
262. 9:46she's using this as an excuse because it
263. 9:48paints the whole MS community as
264. 9:50erratic, as people that can't be
265. 9:52trusted, as people who forget to take
266. 9:54their medicine. They don't.
267. 9:56The people I know who have MS, it is
268. 9:59religious when they take their pills.
269. 10:00They know exactly the moment. If you
270. 10:03were out for dinner with them, the a a
271. 10:05time it goes off on their phones. And so
272. 10:07everybody that I know within that
273. 10:09community, not many people, just a
274. 10:10couple, but a really good, decent people
275. 10:14who have been dealt a bad hand in life
276. 10:16and are trying to make the best of it.
277. 10:18She's the opposite.
278. 10:20>> I too know someone with MS and I
279. 10:24>> Tough to say.
280. 10:25>> It's It's This is the thing where I
281. 10:26don't believe I don't I'm just going to
282. 10:27say it, I don't believe her.
283. 10:29Uh you don't 6 years after your official
284. 10:32diagnosis go on Dancing with the Stars.
285. 10:34>> Right.
286. 10:35>> It goes one way. It goes south. It goes
287. 10:38south. And it's rough. It's rough. And
288. 10:40you know, before we move on to our next
289. 10:42story, um I also just want to say I I
290. 10:45agree with you like she's not famous
291. 10:47enough where like the level of her
292. 10:49celebrity could potentially sway jurors
293. 10:52or prosecutors into offering a plea
294. 10:55deal, but what I worry is going to
295. 10:56happen between now and her court date,
296. 10:59which we've been told is January 2027,
297. 11:02is she and her team are going to get out
298. 11:04there and medicalize this.
299. 11:06>> Mhm.
300. 11:07>> Falsely. And say, "You got to cut her a
301. 11:09break." Like she's very sorry, but you
302. 11:11know, she's really struggling here.
303. 11:13She's been struggling forever and you
304. 11:14know, she didn't really mean this and
305. 11:16she's she's going to get whatever help
306. 11:18she Like no, it's a no. It's a no,
307. 11:20sister. You deserve to do prison time
308. 11:23for this. It's your second go-round with
309. 11:25this and you deserve to be banned from
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