Selma Blair Arrested for Assaulting Flight Attendants
An arrest on a plane and a trip to the psych ward in the same breath. That's the whole story right now, and it says a lot about how thin the line between a criminal act and a medical crisis can be. I don't know what happened in the cabin, and I'm not going to guess at the details. But the fact that she was routed to a hospital for psychiatric evaluation rather than straight to a holding cell tells me the authorities on the ground saw something more than simple bad behavior.
I think what bothers me is how quickly these moments get flattened into either "she's a monster" or "she's a victim of her illness." The truth is probably messier, and we rarely get to see it. Flight attendants deal with this kind of thing more than we'd like to think, and they're trained to handle it, but the rest of us just watch the headlines.
What I'd want to know next is what actually happened in the minutes before she was taken off the plane, and what the evaluation turns up. Because every public breakdown we witness is a reminder that none of us knows where our own edge is.