Reese Witherspoon shared a frightening experience during a recent podcast appearance, revealing how she was almost attacked on a plane years ago. The actress mistakenly thought she was a Dixie Chick by a passenger angered over the band's 2003 political controversy.
Responding to a question about whether she’s ever been mistaken for another celebrity, Anderson said, “This one time, I was on a flight and this guy came up to me and said, ‘Do you know what this country’s done for you?’” Anderson said, describing a scene where the man lashed out at her, seemingly in response to the 2003 backlash against the group — then known as the Dixie Chicks — over a comment by singer Natalie Maines denigrating President George W. Bush. “And I was like, ‘Oh, my God.
What have I done?’ I was like, ‘Oh god.’ I looked back and he was . Then this stewardess had to handcuff him to the chair because he was trying to attack me.”Golden Globe nominee Anderson added, “Ended up he thought I was a Dixie Chick. Remember that whole Dixie Chick thing? I almost got killed on a plane. I was scared to fly after that, a little bit.”Though she did not specify the timeline of the incident, it appeared she was talking about the period in 2003 after Maines said during a concert in London in March of that year that she was ashamed that Bush was a fellow Texan in response to the U.S.’s invasion of Iraq.
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