However, a passenger defended the star and said he wasn’t chastising the employees, as the viral photos suggest. She also said the actor did his best to lift the spirits of his fellow flyers after their upsetting experience with the airline.About 45 minutes after departure, the plane was still circling mid-air and had not reached the required altitude, she said.
All the while, the comedian tried to keep the fellow passengers in good spirits as he walked up and down the aisle, cracking jokes and posing for selfies. “He was just really nice, he would have been well within his rights to sit and sulk in his seat like the rest of us would be doing but he didn’t,” she continued.
James was captured having an exchange with airport staff, and even if he looked unhappy, the woman said it was a feeling all the passengers were experiencing after the disappointing events. As per her recollection of the events, the famous father-of-three even came to the tired passengers’ defense when they found out that only club flyers or gold flyers would get free hotel rooms for the night.
Keith McNally, the owner of Balthazar in New York City, slammed the entertainer in 2022 for being “the most abusive customer” to ever walk into his business., but a tiny Cretin of a man,” he wrote on social media. “And the most abusive customer to my Balthazar servers since the restaurant opened 25 years ago.”The restaurant owner later revealed that the actor “apologized profusely” for his conduct, and the ban on him from the restaurant was withdrawn.