Ellen Pompeo about bizarre airport incident
Sunflower seeds deploy use
“Grey’s Anatomy” star Ellen Pompeo has never experienced anything like this. Because of a harmless snack, she was held at the airport.
Actress Ellen Pompeo (55) caused excitement at the airport with a bag of sunflower seeds – even the bomb room command. The “Grey’s Anatomy” star revealed this in an interview with “Travel + Leisure”.
“Is that a joke?”
In the interview, the 55-year-old remembers the memorable day in March: Because of a harmless object in her hand luggage, it was held for an hour by the US Security Authority Transportation Security Administration (TSA). “I had a bag of sunflower seeds with me – organic sunflower seeds from EREWHON, probably the most expensive that you can buy,” says Pompeo. “They literally stopped me for an hour and then even called the bomb clearing service.”
She asked the officials confused: “What’s going on here? Is that a joke?” Apparently a chemical on the packaging of the “Superteurs, send, biological, clean sunflower seeds” triggered the alarm, Pompeo suspects. In order to accelerate the process, the actress and director offered to simply throw the bag away. But that was rejected – it had to wait until the bomb clearing service classified the unopened bag as harmless. Only then was she allowed to continue traveling.
“I almost missed the flight,” continued Pompeo. “Nobody really believed that! I wrote to my PR agent: ‘I may not climb this plane, and you will never guess why.'”
On the way like model Naomi Campbell
Despite the incident, however, she still likes to travel, she still trusted the magazine. However, she suffers a little under fear of flying. She prefers to support her three children Stella Luna (15), Sienna May (10) and Eli Christopher (8), whom she has with her husband Chris Ivery. “I like to hold my children by the hand when I take off, which is probably a bit selfish, and they probably feel my fear, which is probably not the best.”
In hand luggage, among other things, she always has “water, hand disinfectant and baby cloths” with them. Because hygiene is obviously very important on the way: “I have to do it like Naomi Campbell and wipe the whole seat.” In the future, however, in the future, she should do without the sunflower seeds.
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Source: Stern
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