American Airlines Passenger Says Viral Video Wrecked Her Life
By: Sophia Ankel (Insider)
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A TikTok video of Gomas accusing a passenger of not being "real" went viral in July. Screenshot/TikTok - knuckleslawncare Redeem now
- A marketing executive went viral after accusing an American Airlines passenger of not being "real."
- The woman, later identified as Tiffany Gomas, told DailyMail.com that her life had been "blown up."
- Gomas told the outlet that people had gone through her mail and staked out her house in Dallas.
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An American Airlines passenger who went viral because of videos of her accusing a fellow flyer of being "not real" said that the experience wrecked her life.
Tiffany Gomas, who spoke to DailyMail.com about the aftermath of the video, told the outlet that her life had been "blown up" by the attention.
The TikTok video, which was posted on July 2 and has since been deleted, showed a visibly emotional Gomas getting off flight AA 1009 from Dallas to Orlando before it took off.
Several versions of the clip spread on social media that showed Gomas screaming at fellow passengers as she left.
"I'm getting the fuck off, and there's a reason why I'm getting the fuck off," she said before pointing to the back of the plane and adding: "But I am telling you right now, that motherfucker back there is not real."
"And you can sit on this plane, and you can fucking die with them or not. I'm not going to," she said in the video.
The identity of the woman was not public when the video started to go viral. But earlier this week the New York Post identified the woman as Gomas, a 38-year-old marketing executive who lives in Dallas.
She said the report had an immediate effect. "My life has been blown up. It's frightening. Things go viral and everything changes," Gomas told DailyMail.com.
'They're staking out my house. They're staking out my neighbors. They're going through my mail," she said. She didn't specify who exactly she meant.
The New York Post cited police documents that said the TikTok video was preceded by Gomas falling out with the relatives she was traveling with and accusing them of stealing her AirPods.
"The female started claiming the aircraft was not safe and did not want the aircraft to leave due to her believing it would not make it to its destination," the police document said, adding that airport staff eventually removed her.
The incident led to hours of delays for other passengers because the flight crew had passengers rescreen their bags as a safety precaution.
The New York Post reported that Gomas was given a criminal-trespass notice for disrupting the flight but wasn't taken into police custody.
Gomas did not give further detail on what happened that day in her interview with DailyMail.com. But she asked people to reserve judgment.
"No one knows anyone else's story, and no one should judge. No one knows what it's like."
Gomas did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Insider.
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There are a lot of unstable people in this world.
I believe they call that a psychotic break. (The Zombies, She's Not There 1965)
I love right at the end of the clip when a guy in the aisle seat simply says "bye".
How annoying for all passengers to have to deplane simply for one sick woman.
Can't believe that they let her just walk away. Airport security screwed up.
My take? The people on the plane are real. The people staking out her house aren't.
This is so weird. She grants an interview - doesn’t want people to judge her - but then doesn’t explain what really happened.
She likely doesn't know or remember.
If you stand up on a full airplane and point at someone and say "that motherfucker is not real" 999 times out of a thousand it is not going to end well for you.
Here is the link to the video
Artist’s depiction of what she saw:
Mental illness should always be taken seriously.
My only irrelevant comment about this is that I'm glad I never intend to board an airplane again.