FBI Handles Clay Aiken’s Airplane Altercation
July 7, 2007 by Jeanne
I could not contain my laughter over this one. Sorry, but it is a little bit funny. Apparently, American Idol season 2 runner-up, Clay Aiken, got into a small fight with a woman on a recent flight and the FBI ended up getting involved, lol. Here’s the story:
Singer Clay Aiken was involved in an airplane disturbance with another passenger while en route to Tulsa International Airport, a newspaper reported.
The dispute on a Continental Airlines flight took place between Aiken, who was traveling Saturday morning to a performance at the Brady Theater, and a woman, the Tulsa World reported for Sunday’s editions.
Concertgoers who attended the former “American Idol” singer’s show said afterward that Aiken joked on-stage about being beaten up by a girl earlier in the day.
FBI Special Agent Gary Johnson said there was a dispute between a male passenger and a woman on the flight but could not confirm the passenger was Aiken. He said the dispute was over the male passenger’s foot resting on the woman’s armrest. He said there was an allegation the woman gave the male passenger a “minor shove” during the argument.
“At that point the flight crew was able to resolve the situation,” Johnson said.
Tulsa Airport Authority spokeswoman Alexis Higgins said the passengers were held until FBI agents arrived to interview them. No injuries were reported and no arrests were made.
Aiken was runner-up on the TV talent show “American Idol” in 2003.
Telephone calls and e-mails from The Associated Press to Aiken’s publicist and manager in Los Angeles were not returned Saturday.
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This is what was reported on one of the Clay Message Boards:
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On the phone with ***** now and one of the organizers of the pre-concert event was on the flight and witnessed the event. She was questioned and had to sign a witness statement and everything.
According to the people who witnessed it, Clay was asleep with one leg crossed over the other (kind of parallel to floor) and his foot was apparently touching the armrest. The woman hit at his foot and told him to get his foot off her arm. Clay slept through that apparently and she got pissed and started swatting at him and smacking him. He woke up to the woman hitting him.
According to the witness, they were all questioned by authorities after the flight touched down and the woman was “led away” by authorities. They think she was arrested but don’t know for sure, just that she was in custody.
They don’t report that he was actually asleep when the lady began shoving his foot away from touching the armrest because then they couldn’t make him out to be the “diva” in the whole deal and he might actually be the “victim” and that wouldn’t be near as much fun!