Before I get into the specifics of this situation, let’s just play a little game. Say I provide you with two different versions of the same event, and it is your duty to choose which version is the most likely. I will lay out the two scenarios as such:
Scenario 1: Sharon Stone is a lovely, thoughtful, conscientious person who got special approval to take two carry-on pieces onto her flight from Montana to Utah. A random stewardess saw Sharon Stone and decided to take out all of her anger, rage, and insanity on Sharon Stone, screaming at Sharon several times about her carry-on luggage. Sharon, being a shy, vulnerable sort of woman, was willing to give up her carry-ons to ease this stewardess’s problems, under the condition that she be provided with some kind of private security to help her through the Salt Lake City terminal.
Scenario 2: Sharon Stone is a crazy bitch who picked a fight with a stewardess, then acted insane through an entire flight. When the plane landed Sharon Stone was detained, and perhaps arrested, by the Salt Lake City police.
So which one sounds more likely? You be the judge – here’s Style List’s report:
Sharon Stone’s famous temper got her into trouble on a flight from Kalispell, MT to Salt Lake City, UT yesterday.
According to a witness on board: “The flight attendant in Kalispell asked her to gate check her bag and Sharon refused and got into a huge fight with her. They eventually took the bag from her and she screamed at her assistant with her and made a scene during the entire flight.”
The source told me: “When the plane got to Salt Lake City it was met by armed Salt Lake City police officers. She was detained. Its not clear if she was arrested.”
But Stone’s rep, Paul Bloch, says the person who met her at the airport was “private security hired by Sharon. She was not detained by police.” Bloch also said Stone was traveling alone, without an assistant.
“Sharon had been visiting her father in Montana, and was approved to take both bags on the plane. When she got to the plane, she told me the stewardess screamed at her that she couldn’t take both bags on board,” said Bloch.
According to Stone’s version of events, the stewardess on the Delta connection operated by SkyWest “screamed” at her not once, but twice, over the luggage, before the actress eventually surrendered a bag.
After hearing Sharon’s take on the matter–specifically that police weren’t involved–we went back to the witness. The source said: “It was definitely police, the uniform had a big Salt Lake City police patch on the side. And there were also at least four customer service/security agents from the airline. The flight attendant she fought with was named Ebony. Ms Stone was definitely acting irrationally.”
Finally, a Salt Lake City, UT Airport media spokeswoman confirmed that at least one uniformed police officer was awaiting Stone at the gate…but she said it was at Stone’s request, for security.
We have to wonder whether she needed quite as much “security” before she got into the fight with the flight attendant.
[From The Style List]
If it was a different celebrity, I might have given the person the benefit of the doubt. Stewardesses are no angels, and I’ve been treated badly by a few. But when it’s Sharon Stone? Yeah, I’ll totally buy that she was probably screaming abuses at a stewardess, and that she was most likely detained by the police. She is crazy, after all.
Sharon Stone is shown out with her two of her three sons getting ice cream with a friend on 6/19/09. Credit: WENN.com
Why is this woman still famous? Has she made a movie since “Casino” in 1995? Or does she just wear sparkling gowns and go to parties?
She reminds me of those quasi-celebrities that used to be in the bottom-left box on “Hollywood Squares” in the 1970s.
come on, CandyKay, don’t you remember the cinematic masterpiece that was “Basic Instinct 2”?
That alone should get her two carry-ons.
Basic Insinct 2? I don’t know how I missed that cinematic gem.
I just looked online and it turns out she’s been making lots of movies – three in 2007, for example. I just haven’t heard of any of them.
After careful consideration, think I’ll have to go with scenario 2.
Same here
As usual, the truth lies somewhere in the middle. She’s no Emily Post, but then neither are a lot of flight attendants.
‘Before I get into the specifics of this situation, let’s just play a little game.’
Did anyone else read that and poop themselves thinking they were about to have to find a key in a vault of acid and pig intestines?
I will never get over Saw.
I doubt it in this case, Kelly. Stone has long been known for her elitist attitude and her irrational temper. I find it extremely easy to believe she behaved exactly as described.
Team Ebony! 😀
@kelly – Yes, when did so many flight attendants get to be so unhappy? I understand it’s hard work and not a glamour job as once advertised, but you get treated better at the average chain restaurant than you do on an airplane these days.
There are always exceptions – I have a friend who’s a flight attendant and loves her job – but it’s no fun getting on an airplane with someone who’s obviously not pleased to be there.
The truth is somewhere is between….. Of course, Mrs Stone’s reputation doesn’t help but perhaps she was provoked?
I believe she was provoked, then her anger kicked in. When I was flying last year, I was supposed to be boarded first, due to my disability and the fact that my father flew over a million miles with the airline, so I was to be VIP. Was I boarded first? Nope. I had to slowly make my way to my seat, while the line backed up behind me. Then on the next flight, I specifically asked if my bag was of the correct size to be carried on, and was told “yes” and that if it wouldn’t fit under the seat, to jam it between the seat and the one in front of it, since I didn’t have anyone beside me. When I did that, the flight attendant got mad at me and made me gate check it, after making me try to put it in the overhead, which I told her I couldn’t do, due to my disability. Then she yelled at the guy in front of me for not wanting to put something very fragile in the overhead, and made him do it anyway. I was in pain for the rest of the flight; it was horrid.
I’ve just had a couple of rude experiences on airlines coming back from NYC this weekend. Seems the puddle-jumper planes have more beeyotches onboard. Maybe they get surly when they’re stuck on small planes.
A grouchy flight attendant and Sharon Stone. Recipe for a catfight.
A Bitch is a Bitch. And they are always better than us LITTLE PEOPLE. Rules are made to protect her kind from pesants like US.
So some skank stewardess met her match in Sharon Stone.
A lot of stewardesses are harsh, nasty drama queens. Bet this one was twice as delighted to encounter a famous person to spew her passive-aggressivity and jealousy on.
Sharon is crazy. I am sure Phil Bronstein is grateful for every post Sharon day. Now she pays for the privilege of a young paramour. I always feel sorry for the kids of celebretards such as Stone, Lance Armstrong, Madonna, Derek Jeter and Kate Hudson. The children get dragged through all the romantic sexual dysfunctions of their parents because their parents are too narcissistic to understand that the they need stability and sanity.
Looking at these pics, all I can think is she has some great genes. Seriously, she looks half her age and I like her hair a bit longer like this. She looks good in every one of these photos, hard to do when you are wrangling two kids.
1. Celebitchy, I have to tell you this. Lately I’ve noticed the writing style of your articles has more of a
“bitchy edge” to it, not overboard, not overdone, not vulgar…and I LOVE IT!
2. It’s “Flight Attendant”, NOT “Stewardess”, which is so 60’s/70’s, it aint funny.
Then again, it’s hard for me to complain about the net’s BEST celeb site! 😉
Sharon is no angel but let’s face it, many flight attendants are the drama queens mentioned above. They don’t care if they have to get security to back up their petty rants or calling police once on the ground using tax payer’s dollars. I’ve known flight attendants that would be apprehensive when teamed with some members of the flight crew because there would always be a scene and these bimbos would always be useless during emergency situations to boot.
I hate almost all airlines. I was trapped in an airport for two days and it wasn’t an emergency. Cancelling flights on a whim and then providing no extra assistence for reticketing or a plan to handle the people that you’ve left stranded brings out the worst in me, too. That combined with TSA workers who couldn’t get jobs as janitors where I got stranded and you tend to question almost any story you hear.
Must have been this gal:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7MIpyUpEcE
I used to work at a clothing store in San Fracisco where she frequently shopped – lets just say she’s a f*ckin bitch in person
I travel 90% for business and in over ten years have YET to hear a flight attendant “yell” at anyone. This Stone woman thinks she is “special” and does not need to follow the rules. Disgusting.
Flight attendants bitchy? No…. never. I was a flight attendant on a private Boeing, so I didn´t have to deal with the riff-raff public. But bitchy?
I find it odd that so many find the flight attendant “nasty”, or a “skank” or unpleasant” without knowing anything about her other than her name, Ebony. So we can assume reasonably that she is black. If her ethnicity were a mystery, I doubt so many would be so quick to paint such a nasty portrait of a woman just doing her job.
Don’t get me wrong, I’ve had my fair share of dealing with people in customer service positions who should definitely be in other fields. But none of us know THIS particular woman. I do, however know Sharon Stone (having worked with her for several AmFar benefits) and all I can say is…..well, I’m sorry for anyone who has to deal with her in ANY capacity.