Tara Reid feels “judged and bullied” after police mentioned there isn’t a video proof her drink was drugged at a lodge final month.
Tara Reid feels ‘judged and bullied’ after drink spiking allegations
The 50-year-old actress had alleged she was drugged by a stranger after having only one drink at a lodge in Rosemont, close to Chicago, on November 23, earlier than being taken out on a stretcher and dropped at hospital however police have insisted there isn’t a video proof of anybody “tampering with or including one thing to [Reid’s] drink”.
Tara instructed Us Weekly: “I’ve been trustworthy about the truth that I don’t bear in mind something after my first drink. All I mentioned was that I felt one thing was improper and that I felt I could have been drugged, as a result of I’ve no different rationalization for why I awoke in a hospital robe with no reminiscence of how I obtained there.
“Seeing the media twist my phrases and assault me for not remembering has been extremely painful and is severely affecting my psychological well being. I really feel bullied and judged for one thing I can not recall. I’m attempting to heal, however the public scrutiny is making that very tough, and I’ve been afraid to even go away my home.
“Nobody results in the hospital for round eleven hours from consuming wine alone. I hadn’t taken any medicine that day, and I do know one thing wasn’t proper. Whether or not I had extra drinks after that doesn’t matter, the very fact is I don’t bear in mind something.”
Tara went on to ask for “privateness, compassion and area to heal”.
She added: “I’ve shared the one reality I’ve, what I bear in mind, and what I felt.”
In footage obtained by TMZ from the evening, Reid was talking incoherently and appeared to slide off a wheelchair within the foyer, and was helped again into the chair, earlier than paramedics led her away on a stretcher.
In a police report filed on the time, Reid mentioned she was within the foyer with “a bunch of” YouTubers, and “the entire thing felt suspicious” as most of them had “their telephones out”.
Within the report, she alleged that after stepping outdoors with one of many males, she returned to search out “a serviette over my drink”.
She instructed officers: “Then the very last thing I bear in mind was consuming that drink and seeing a pair sitting subsequent to us.
“The subsequent factor I bear in mind was waking up within the hospital round eight hours or extra later not figuring out the place I used to be or something that occurred.
“I utterly blacked out with no recollection of something.”
The Rosemont Public Security Division beforehand instructed PEOPLE that surveillance footage did not “present anybody tampering with or including one thing to [Reid’s] drink”.
They did verify “{that a} bartender lined her drink when she left the bar which is commonplace observe for bartenders to do”.
The authorities added: “At the moment there isn’t a felony act that has been dedicated and there’s no one we’re at the moment investigating”.
