By Danielle Broadway and Lisa Richwine
LOS ANGELES, Oct 16 (Reuters) – A consultant for Selma Blair, who was arrested this week and charged with assault for actions on a US Delta Air Strains flight, mentioned on Friday the actor didn’t intend to hurt anybody or open an plane door.
A press release issued by her publicist repeated feedback from earlier this week that Blair, who has a number of sclerosis, suffered a medical emergency on the flight from Los Angeles to New York. Blair didn’t attempt to open a door on the aircraft as some media shops reported, the assertion mentioned.
“There was no try to open the door of the plane. Selma didn’t intend to hurt anybody,” the assertion mentioned.
Blair pleaded not responsible on Monday to costs of assaulting a police officer concerned in her arrest at New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport and a nurse on the hospital the place she was taken afterward.
Police met the aircraft when it landed after studies of a “bodily abusive passenger” who was recognized as Blair, in accordance with a press release from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s police division. Two flight attendants ​reported accidents and one in every of them was taken to a hospital, police mentioned.
Blair, 54, is thought for roles in “Merciless Intentions” and “Hellboy.” She has spoken publicly about being identified with a number of sclerosis in 2018.
The assertion by Blair’s consultant mentioned Blair has a neurological situation often called pseudobulbar have an effect on, “which bears instantly on how a medical episode presents to individuals who have no idea her.”
“There’s rather more to this story than has been reported, and we ask to think about the whole thing of the details earlier than dashing to judgment, whether or not within the courtroom or within the courtroom of public opinion,” Blair’s representatives mentioned.
(Reporting by Danielle Broadway and Lisa Richwine; Enhancing by Rod Nickel)