By Danielle Broadway and Lisa Richwine
LOS ANGELES, Oct 16 (Reuters) – A representative for Selma Blair, who was arrested this week and charged with assault for actions on a US Delta Air Lines flight, said on Friday the actor did not intend to harm anyone or open an aircraft door.
Blair did not try to open a door on the plane as some media outlets reported, the statement said. Two flight attendants reported injuries and one of them was taken to a hospital, police said. “There was no attempt to open the door of the aircraft.
Selma did not intend to harm anyone,” the statement said. Police met the plane when it landed after reports of a “physically abusive passenger” who was identified as Blair, according to a statement from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s police department. The statement by Blair’s representative said Blair has a neurological condition known as pseudobulbar affect, “which bears directly on how a medical episode presents to people who do not know her. “There is much more to this story than has been reported, and we ask to consider the entirety of the facts before rushing to judgment, whether in the courtroom or in the court of public opinion,” Blair’s representatives said.
A statement issued by her publicist repeated comments from earlier this week that Blair, who has multiple sclerosis, suffered a medical emergency on the flight from Los Angeles to New York.
