Actress Tara Reid was briefly hospitalized over the weekend after she claimed to have been drugged while at a Chicago hotel bar while she was in town for a photo signing event.
The American Pie star told TMZ that she stopped by her hotel’s bar on Saturday night for a glass of red wine, briefly stepping outside at one point for a cigarette. While she was away, Reid said she believed someone at the packed bar must have slipped something into her drink because the next thing she knew, she was “passed out [and] in the hospital.”
“Tara is recovering and asks for privacy during this traumatic time,” a rep for the actress said in a statement to Rolling Stone. “She also urges everyone to be careful, watch your drinks and never leave them unattended, as this can happen to anyone.”
Concerning footage obtained by TMZ shows Reid in a DoubleTree hotel, slurring her words and sliding off a wheelchair, before a medical team wheeled her away on a stretcher. Reid said she regained consciousness at the hospital and doctors informed her that she had been drugged. She claimed they never told her what she may have been drugged with.
Despite the medical scare, Reid still showed up at the Chicago Sports Spectacular show on Sunday afternoon, where she posed with fans who had bought tickets to meet her.
Event organizer Rhonda Adelstein confirms to Rolling Stone that Reid’s team said she had been hospitalized and would be slightly late to the 11:30 a.m. start time. “Even though she was late, she did come,” Adelstein says. “I did not hear one bad thing at all. She obviously was very polite and happy to everybody.”
Reid told TMZ that she had noticed a string of YouTubers at the hotel bar, and said she was considering filing a police report to find out what happened. She stressed that she only had one drink before she blacked out, noting she felt lucky the situation didn’t escalate any further.
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