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Selma Blair has reflected on her eight-year journey to sobriety.
In an interview with US weekly magazine published on July 17, Legally Blonde The actress recalled an incident that occurred in 2016, when she was kicked off a plane for being drunk.
Asked what she considered her “lowest moment” when drinking, Blair said she was kicked off a flight eight years ago. “The plane incident,” she told the outlet.
“I drank too much in Mexico. I was very ill, dehydrated and hungover, and I didn’t know I had neurological problems. I didn’t understand anything. It was horrible and humiliating. I had to grow up,” Blair explained.
At that time, the Cruel intentions The star was travelling to Los Angeles from a holiday in Mexico with her then four-year-old son Arthur and his father, her ex-partner Jason Bleick. Several outlets claimed at the time that Blair was mixing prescription drugs with alcohol, causing her to pass out and “say and do things that I deeply regret”.
“Yesterday I made a huge mistake. After a lovely trip with my son and his father, I mixed alcohol with medication, which caused me to black out and say and do things I deeply regret,” Blair said in a statement to the BBC. Vanity Fair Shortly after the incident.
“My son was sleeping with his dad and had headphones on, so that was the saving grace. I take this very seriously and apologize to all the passengers and crew I upset and thank all the people who helped me after the incident,” he added. “I am an imperfect human being who makes mistakes and I am embarrassed by this incident. I am truly sorry.”
That same year, Blair made the decision to stop drinking alcohol. Speaking to US weekly magazineBlair detailed how dedicated she has been to staying sober since the plane incident. “I couldn’t have been diagnosed with MS unless I was sober. I wouldn’t be a good mother unless I was sober. I self-medicated,” Blair said.
In a November 2023 interview with Kristen Welker on Meet the PressThe actress explained how she spent years with multiple sclerosis (MS) being misdiagnosed by doctors who classified her early symptoms as “menstrual problems.”
“You shouldn’t blame everything on menstruation or something,” she said, noting that the long delay in her diagnosis was likely due to “older male doctors who probably didn’t know the ins and outs of a girl.”
Blair added that one doctor even told her that one solution might be that she “needed a boyfriend.”
“I cried,” she said, after being asked how that interaction had made her feel. “I didn’t have the ability to process: ‘What am I supposed to do with this information?’ I knew the pain was real. I thought it was. But I started to convince myself: ‘You’re too sensitive. There’s nothing wrong with you. Get over it, lazy, lazy whatever.’”
In October 2018, Blair publicly shared that she had been diagnosed with MS, a disease that affects the central nervous system and disrupts the flow of information within the brain and between the brain and the body, according to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.
She offered fans a glimpse into her health struggles in the Discovery+ documentary. Introducing Selma Blair. The film, which was released in 2021, follows Blair as she undergoes a risky stem cell transplant to treat the disease. In August of that year, Blair revealed that she was in remission after the stem cell transplant.
