Kaley Cuoco Details Plane Confrontation with Passenger Over Her Infant Baby
Kaley Cuoco
Kaley Cuoco might play a flight attendant on TV, but she's not interested in dealing with difficult passengers on board.
The actress and new mom, 38, recently flew on a plane with her 9-month-old daughter Matilda for the first time ever over Thanksgiving—and apparently they had quite a bit of turbulence during the flight.
The Flight Attendance star appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! this week, where she looked back on her recent holiday trip with Matilda and partner Tom Pelphrey.
Cuoco was admittedly "terrified" of flying with an infant for the first time, which is why she and Pelphrey, 41, thought to bring their baby's sound machine on the plane in the hopes of getting the little one to take a nice nap instead of fussing during the flight.
"It's the only thing she can go to sleep to," the Big Bang Theory alum noted—but not everyone else on the flight was soothed by the machine's comforting sounds.
"The sound machine is on and we were finally like [sighs]," she recounted to Kimmel, 56, before adding that things quickly took a bad turn when the flight attendant came over and asked them to turn the sound machine off at the request of another passenger.
"I'm sitting there, and I'm like, 'Oh my god,'" she recalled. "And I can feel Tom be like, 'Hey, ask the passenger if she wants to hold our screaming child when we turn it off.' And I mean, the ice went into his veins."
"I couldn’t believe, by the way, [that] she asked us to turn it off!" the Meet Cute star, who confessed to being "so angry" about the situation, added.
By the end of the flight, Cuoco and Pelphrey realized the passenger who complained was sitting right in front of them—and the woman even made a rude comment to the new parents when they were getting up to deplane.
"And so we get up and she goes, 'Oh, so your daughter does know how to smile,'" Cuoco said, while giving a very unamused look to the audience.
But in the actress' true style, Cuoco added some levity to the moment with a witty joke, telling Kimmel, "It was in that moment where I understood why women end up on Dateline." She also said she "could have thrown that woman off the plane" in that moment.
Apparently Cuoco is one mama bear you don't want to mess with!
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