Selma Blair is getting candid about her 2016 flight outburst that got her ejected from the aircraft — revealing it was her lowest point with drinking.
“I had too much to drink in Mexico,” she told Us Weekly in an interview published Wednesday. “I was so messed up and dehydrated and hungover and didn’t know I had neurological issues. I didn’t understand anything.”
“It was horrifying and humiliating,” she added. “I had to grow up.”
The “Legally Blonde” actress was traveling with her then-4-year-old son, Arthur Saint, and his father, Jason Bleick, when she was removed from the plane on a stretcher and taken to the hospital after mixing her medication and alcohol.
At the time, Blair allegedly cried out “he burns my private parts. He won’t let me eat or drink. He beats me. He’s going to kill me,” according to reports.
The 52-year-old, who got sober in 2016, issued an apology a few days after the incident.
“I made a big mistake yesterday,” Blair told Vanity Fair in a statement. “After a lovely trip with my son and his dad, I mixed alcohol with medication, and that caused me to black out and led me to say and do things that I deeply regret.”
Blair says that she started drinking alcohol in excessive amounts to suppress “jerks and spasms” that she had over the years. At first, she thought the spasms were due to mental issues, but figured out the cause behind them in 2018.
“Once I knew I had MS [multiple sclerosis] which I’d had for a while [things] made so much more sense,” she told Us. “And I actually became much happier.”
“I wouldn’t have been able to be diagnosed with MS unless I was sober. I wouldn’t be a good mom unless I was sober, I self-medicated.”
Blair believed she was making things up before being diagnosed with MS.
“I just thought, ‘Jesus, Selma, you’re very broken inside. Just Admit it.’ I didn’t know I wasn’t broken and that I had a brain tissue damage,” she went on.
The “Cruel Intentions” actress released her documentary, “Introducing, Selma Blair,” in 2021, which gave an emotional and intimate look at her struggles with the autoimmune disorder and her journey to undergo a potentially fatal stem cell transplant.
“She just kept showing up for me each day and telling me the truth and giving me herself in her fullness, which is extremely generous and very unique,” the film’s director, Rachel Fleit, previously told The Post.
Five years after getting the hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT), Blair admitted that she didn’t realize how long recovery would take.
“I’ve had to fake it till I make it. I aged so much after the chemo and then menopause. That’s something no one talks about. But I’m getting back on track,” she explained.
The “The Sweetest Thing” star is still in remission while doing treatments and has had MRI’s done a couple of times during the years.
“I do IVIG [a therapy that uses antibodies from healthy donors], which keeps me from getting sick. If I get sick, all bets are off. That’s how I maintain the wellness people see,” Blair said, sharing other methods that have helped with her recovery. “Some are [considered] experimental but nothing is so left-field — I’m not rich enough to go to Sweden or Germany to do all these wild things.”
One person who has helped her during her journey is her best friend, Jaime King.
“She’s profoundly lovely and I’ll always look to her as an inspiration. She’s someone who gets up over and over again, too,” she told Us.
Since being diagnosed with MS, complete strangers have also expressed how she’s given them hope.
“I could be sitting crying at a table and someone leaves me a note that says, ‘You changed my daughter’s life’ or ‘My daughter dances again because she didn’t mind looking strange anymore when she can’t do it,’” Blair explained. “And I feel like the luckiest person in the world. It makes me so emotional.”
Blair said that if there is one thing she would tell herself six years ago, it would be that it’s okay.
“You’re being lovingly guided and things will come in their time. You just have to keep showing up,” she said. “One day you’ll feel better — and you’ll do an interview talking about how far you’ve come!”
Though she hasn’t been in any projects since 2021, Blair would love to work on a period piece like “Downton Abbey” or “have a rebirth like Jennifer Coolidge” in “The White Lotus.”
