Revealed: Comic Rachel Jackson was arrested after airport rant at police
Footage of 2023 incident in Nashville goes viral
Scottish comedian Rachel Jackson was arrested at Nashville Airport after a sweary showdown with police, it has been revealed today.
Footage of the 37-year-old’s altercation with police officers in August 2023 went viral after being posted on YouTube just before Christmas.
In it she was initially identified just as an ‘entitled tourist’ – but now she has been named as the stand-up who has appeared in Still Game, Two Doors Down and Scot Squad as well as her own six-part BBC Three series Bunny Boiler, based on her 2017 Edinburgh Fringe show of the same name.
Jackson moved to Tennessee last year, but admits she ‘lost her mind’ in the States.
The bodycam footage starts in the Delta Airlines lounge, which she had apparently barged her way into after being denied entry because her ticket was with British Airways.
Police were called and when they tried to defuse the situation, she belligerently refused to engage. ‘You’re going to stop and listen to me,’ said one officer, but Jackson bluntly responded: ‘No, I’m not.’
When later told that BA had denied her boarding to the flight and that she would have to leave the airport, she became even more aggressive, yelling at police: ‘Back the fuck off.’
At one point she screamed: ‘Get your hands off me while I drink my water,’ and told the cops they had 60 seconds to leave her alone. ‘Get your fucking hands off me,’ she screamed as they attempted to put her in handcuffs.
Eventually she was escorted out by cops into an awaiting police car.
Jackson – who was first identified as the woman in the video by the Daily Mail – is likely to address the incident in her next stand-up show, American Horror Story, which is premiering as a work in progress at the Glasgow International Comedy Festival in March.
The description of the show, to be performed at The Stand, sat it is ‘all about the time award winning Scottish comedian Rachel Jackson moved to Tennessee for love but instead lost her mind.’
25 TikToks later: ‘Entitled’ influencers dragged for flying to Africa instead of France
The whole saga is very bratty, and not in the Charli XCX way5 months ago
Travel influencer Brittney Dzialo has been slammed as “disrespectful” and “entitled” after she mistakenly boarded a flight to Tunis in Tunisia, Africa, instead of Nice, France. Easy mistake? Not really.
This vaguely insufferable saga started earlier this week when Brittney posted a TikTok with the caption: “When the airline employee misheard us when we said we needed a flight to Nice, France, and we landed in TUNIS, AFRICA!”
The video, which was viewed 1.7 million times, showed Brittney and her friend getting off the plane after touching down in Africa – which they apparently think is a country, and not a continent. The plane literally had the words “Tunis Air” in big bold red letters, and yet, they somehow ended up 495 miles from their intended destination.
They added some further context in the next video, and somehow, they only realised where they were going once the flight attendant pointed to Tunis on their ticket. The other flyers were just as confused as TikTok, but it only got worse from there.
Over the course of a whopping 25 TikToks, the influencer really let her American show as she stumbled her way through conversations with local airport employees. Staff in the Tunis airport were having none of it; after all, they still got on the plane regardless of whether the original attendant had misheard their intended destination.
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After what seemed like days in the airport, she added in an update: “They are making us pay for a new flight, saying we can’t get on the next one tonight, everyone is rude, two men who are the supervisors yelled in my face, in tears, so as a last resort I had to bring out my bestie chat and found out about EU regulation and now they are taking us a bit more seriously so we can get to NICE asap.”
“After the last supervisors said it was impossible to leave, I had a feeling to go try one more time and there was a new supervisor in there instead of the man that yelled at me and I cried to her and she saw how stressed, tired, and defeated I was and got us on a flight (that we had to pay for) and had the captain hold the entire plane for us.”
The girls are now (hopefully) on a flight to Nice in France, with the most recent update being their in-flight food, but people have since slammed their behaviour.
“Stop saying Africa and say Tunisia. I’m sorry, but you are just dumb,” one person wrote.
Another said: “Girl, it is definitely 90 per cent your fault! How the f*ck didn’t you check the flight! Like how?”
“‘A country where they don’t speak English’ and the whole time you’re going to France. Bestie, I got some news for you,” someone else wrote.
Here’s the whole insufferable saga, as told through the 25 TikToks Brittney has posted about it.
Gucci-toting Scottish woman has huge meltdown over drinking and vaping at Nashville airport
By WILL POTTER, US SENIOR NEWS REPORTER
A Scottish woman was filmed snarling at Nashville Airport police in a spectacular meltdown over vaping and drinking water before a flight to the UK.
The woman, who has not been identified, caterwauled at cops to ‘get your hands off me’ when she was arrested as she waited for a British Airways flight to London Heathrow in newly-unearthed footage from 2023.
The woman begged to be allowed to drink water and keep her sunglasses on, as she repeatedly told arresting officers ‘I’m not going to jail.’
The confrontation began in an airport lounge, when the woman barged her way into the Delta Sky Club without having access. She was filmed clutching a Gucci travel bag that appeared to be embossed with the letters R and J.
Police bodycams showed a lounge attendant explaining that the woman demanded to be fed and refused to leave, before she grew visibly agitated as soon as the cops showed up. She told officers she was on marijuana and anti-anxiety medication
‘I need to smoke,’ she repeated to the officers in her Caledonian accent, laying out an electric vape and nicotine gum out on the desk. ‘That’s why I’ve put my stuff out here, because I trust humanity.’
After telling the officer ‘you’re not going to arrest me’, the woman grew more erratic throughout the encounter, and began screaming within moments of leaving the lounge.
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Shocking bodycam footage captured the moment an entitled Scottish passenger flew into a frenzy and fought with cops in an airport meltdown
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The woman, who has not been identified, screamed at cops to ‘get your hands off me’ when she was arrested at an American airport in unearthed footage from April 2023
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The officers were warned by the woman ‘don’t touch me’ several times as they escorted her out of the lounge.
Next, the woman demanded free access to a smoker’s lounge that cost money to enter, then unsuccessfully tried to sneak inside.
She then demanded to be given money by the cops, ordering them to give her $10 to purchase more nicotine gum.
‘I don’t have $10’, one officer responds.
After being told she had to pay by a shop worker, the officers decided she had not caused enough of an issue to arrest her for being disorderly.
But were heard telling each other to stay close as they predicted they would be called back.
Their forecast quickly came true as they were called back to the erratic woman’s location shortly after she tried to go to her gate.
The captain had decided to bar the woman from her flight due to her behavior, telling her ‘You’re not getting on that plane.’
‘You have to help me towards the water,’ she replied. ‘You can’t put your hands on women.’
After she was told she was not allowed to fly and was placed under arrest, the belligerent woman flew into a frenzy and became panicked.
‘I will only go on the captain’s orders, because I’ve seen Titanic,’ she says at one point as she is placed in handcuffs.
‘I am Titanic, I am white lotus… get your f***ing hands off me.’
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The angry woman was seen clutching a Gucci bag embossed with the letters R and J
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The woman demanded to be given money by the police officers to buy nicotine gum, and grew irate when they refused
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After being told she had to pay by a shop worker, the officers decided she had not caused enough of an issue to arrest her for being disorderly, but were heard telling each other to stay close as they predicted they would be called back
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The woman began screaming about the Titanic and demanded to be allowed water, leading cops to arrest her for disorderly conduct
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After telling the cops she had been ‘traumatized’ by American police before, the woman screamed ‘not again, not again’ as she was arrested
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The strange encounter ended with the woman being booked in jail, and she was reportedly charged with disorderly conduct
After telling the cops she had been ‘traumatized’ by American police before, the woman screamed ‘not again, not again’ as she was arrested.
Refusing to be escorted out peacefully, the officers resorted to dragging her by her hands and walking her out of the airport.
Her struggle continued as she was placed in a cop car, telling the officers she ‘won’t go in’ and ‘won’t go to jail.’
When backup comes, the woman asks a female officer to ‘help me woman’ as she resisted arrest.
The strange encounter ended with the woman being booked in jail, and she was reportedly charged with disorderly conduct.
DailyMail.com has contacted Nashville Police for further information.
