Selma Blair Arrested After Allegedly Punching and Biting Delta Flight Crew on Flight to New York
by Jerome London · Thought CatalogUpdated 6 minutes ago, October 13, 2026
Selma Blair, 54, was taken off a Delta flight in handcuffs Sunday after she allegedly punched one flight attendant and bit another crew member on the way to New York’s JFK, according to New York Port Authority.
Two flight attendants reported injuries, and one was taken to the hospital. Blair was arrested and brought to a hospital for evaluation the same day. The FBI, which handles all assaults aboard aircraft, is now investigating what happened on the flight, which had taken off from Los Angeles earlier Sunday.
Dispatch audio captured a responder describing “a bloody nose as well as some bite marks” among the injuries, and noting that “the disruptive passenger also bashed her head on the bulkhead or something like that.”
A representative for Blair said she “experienced a medical emergency that led to the alleged conduct,” adding that she got immediate medical attention after landing and is in stable condition. Delta said there was zero tolerance for unruly behavior and that the flight arrived ahead of schedule with no operational impact.
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Blair, best known for Cruel Intentions, was diagnosed with MS in 2018 and said in 2021 the disease had gone into remission. She was expected at 90s Con in Hartford, Connecticut, from October 16 to 18.
It isn’t the first time. In 2016 she was removed from a flight landing in Los Angeles after a trip to Cancun, later telling Vanity Fair she had “mixed alcohol with medication, and that caused me to black out and led me to say and do things that I deeply regret.”
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