Hilary Swank has issued an apology to a woman she encountered at an airport.
The 51-year-old actress recently encountered a mom, who was taking her two young kids to Disneyland for a Make-A-Wish trip, and had a little incident at baggage claim.
The mom shared on social media that she saw Hilary at the airport and was excited because “I am a fan of her movies and stuff,” but it turned south when she took out her phone.
Keep reading to find out more…
“And then I took my phone out because I got distracted and trying to find my Make-A-Wish kids and my husband,” she told Daily Mail. “I was trying to call him and I think I just took my phone out the wrong time. She just thought I was taking a picture of her. She was having a bad day.”
“She just said ‘I hope you enjoy that picture.’ I just looked, like you know, ‘I was trying to call my husband. I wasn’t taking a picture.’ She just stormed off a little bit,” the mom added. “It was just the wrong, wrong place one time.”
“It just hurt my feelings because I was starting my son’s Make-A-Wish trip, which she wouldn’t have known, but just one of those situations where it was one of my first encounters with a celebrity so I thought it was a little comical,” she continued. “We just don’t know what others are going through and I was just a stressed mom trying to navigate LAX.”
After sharing the encounter on her Instagram account, the mom did note that Hilary reached out via DM with an apology and explained she just didn’t want her two-year-old twins photographed, and even asked if she could do anything to help out with her sons, who suffer from Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, which is “is a genetic problem that causes muscles to weaken and atrophy (become smaller and waste away), per John Hopkins Medicine.
The mom and her husband also note that they are not “upset” with Hilary.
“We’re not trying to get anything from it. It was just kind of like ‘oh, look at this, that was crazy right? It was unexpected at the start of our trip,” they said. “I did not expect Hilary Swank to directly talk to me. It was just like a ‘woah’ I was taken back.”
