Cruel Intentions: Selma Blair's Plane Attack Was Demonic Possession

Actress Selma Blair, star of Cruel Intentions and Legally Blonde, is accused of trying to open the cabin door on a Delta flight from LAX to JFK, injuring two flight attendants, a police officer and a nurse before she was finally restrained. Her lawyer blames exhaustion and her multiple sclerosis, but her newest lead role is a possession film, and her own memoir opens with a tarot reading. I walk through what actually happened, what her decades of psychics, mediums and astrologers reveal, and what the Bible says about the difference between illness and oppression, and where the two can look exactly alike.

I start with the flight itself: the dispatch audio describing a bloody nose and bite marks called in before the plane even reached the gate, the Port Authority account of her arrest, and the felony charges she now faces with a January 2027 court date. Her attorney points to her multiple sclerosis, documented since 2018, and I lay out the real medical evidence that MS carries a higher rate of psychosis, alongside her own memoir admission about biting people when drunk, and the eerily similar 2016 incident when she was carried off a different Delta flight on a stretcher.

From there I turn to what was happening around her at the same time. Ten days before the flight she announced a documentary called Hineni, a word straight out of Abraham, Moses, Samuel and Isaiah answering God's call. At the very same time, her comeback lead role is a possession film called Silent, from directors with two prior movies built on demons, Kabbalah and a gate of hell under Jerusalem. I trace her own public history with tarot, astrology, mediums and a televised seance with Tyler Henry, and set it beside what Deuteronomy, Leviticus and Isaiah say about divination, familiar spirits and necromancy, and what happened to King Saul when he sought a medium at Endor.

Finally I weigh the question honestly: demonic oppression or illness, using the boy in Mark 9 and Matthew 17 where both are described in the same case, and the demoniac in Mark 5 and Acts 19 where possession produced a strength the body should not have had. I land where Scripture always lands, not on fear but on Jesus Christ, and I pray for Selma Blair's healing and for anyone watching who has ever opened that same door to walk away from it and come to Him instead.