Hilary Swank has allegedly apologized after a tense encounter with a girl she thought was taking her photograph at LAX airport in Los Angeles.
“At baggage declare, I used to be strolling subsequent to Hilary Swank,” Jada Bafus instructed The Every day Mail on Wednesday, December 10, per Web page Six. “And I did a double tackle her as a result of it’s Hilary Swank and I’m a fan of her films and stuff.”
Bafus had been on the airport along with her sons Mason, 7, and Jack, 4, whom she was taking to Disneyland on a Make-a-Want trip. The boys have Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, a genetic dysfunction that causes progressive lack of muscle.
Bafus stated she took out her telephone “as a result of I bought distracted” whereas looking for her youngsters and husband.
“I simply regarded, like, you understand, I used to be making an attempt to name my husband,” she recalled. “I wasn’t taking an image.”
In accordance with Web page Six, Bafus had beforehand described the alleged encounter through a latest Instagram publish, quoting Swank, 51, as saying, “You bought what you wanted? Get what you got here for? Get pleasure from that image.”
“Ma’am … I wasn’t making an attempt an image of you,” Bafus wrote, based on the outlet. “I used to be looking for my 2 terminally in poor health boys at baggage declare. However thanks for poking at a harassed mother on her child’s Make-a-Want journey. Iconic timing as a result of she lived right here in Spokane way back!”
Including an upside-down smiley face emoji, Bafus added: “So random!”
In her interview with The Every day Mail, Bafus stated that Swank “harm my emotions as a result of I used to be beginning my son’s Make-A-Want journey, which she wouldn’t have recognized, however simply a type of conditions the place it was considered one of my first encounters with a celeb so I assumed it was a little bit comical.”
She added, nonetheless, that the two-time Oscar winner reached out on to apologize to her through Instagram and defined that she had not wished her 2-year-old twins, Aya and Ohm, being photographed.
“I didn’t count on Hilary Swank to instantly discuss to me,” Bafus stated. “It was simply, like, a ‘Woah.’ I used to be bowled over.”
Bafus’ husband, Bryan, known as the interplay “surprising” and questioned why Swank would “snap again at anyone while you’re in that occupation” however famous that they’re “not upset” at her.
Us Weekly has reached out to Swank for remark.
Swank, who received the Academy Award for Greatest Actress for her roles in 1999’s Boys Don’t Cry and 2004’s Million Greenback Child, married entrepreneur Philip Schneider in 2018. In April 2023, they welcomed their twins, a boy and a lady, whom she’s known as a “miracle.”
She introduced her being pregnant on ABC’s Good Morning America in October 2022, saying, “That is one thing that I’ve been wanting for a very long time. I can’t imagine it.”

