Selma Blair’s team breaks silence on plane incident and arrest in CBC report

Arrest follows flight incident

Blair appeared in court on Oct. 12, pleaded not guilty to two counts of second-degree assault and was later released on bail. The article does not specify how those two counts relate to the separate accusations involving the officer and nurse.

Accounts of medical episode

A police officer’s account in charging documents says Blair kicked the officer repeatedly around the face, neck and chest while being secured to a stretcher at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center. The documents say the officer experienced serious pain and substantial swelling.

Blair’s attorney Shawn Barnes previously told a judge that her actions were not intentional. He said she had missed several doses of medication for severe neurological symptoms, had a heavy workload before boarding, and hit her head during the flight; he attributed her confusion and disorientation to those factors and the plane’s altitude.

Representative addresses condition

Blair’s representative said she had not intended to harm anyone and sought to correct points already circulating publicly. The statement said Blair lives with daily pain and has pseudobulbar affect, a neurological condition secondary to multiple sclerosis.