This is one of the wildest celebrity stories of the week. You know how many celebrities hate when regular people notice them or slyly take photos of them when the celebrities are out and about in real life? Well, Hilary Swank is one of those celebs. Not only does she hate it when a regular person takes her photo, she will get in that person’s face about it, even if she has no idea if the person actually took a photo. Apparently, Hilary Swank got in some woman’s face at LAX. The problem? The woman claims she didn’t take Swank’s photo. Oh, and the woman was actually taking her two kids on a Make-a-Wish trip to Disneyland. OMG.
Hilary Swank has allegedly apologized after a tense encounter with a woman she thought was taking her photo at LAX airport in Los Angeles.
“At baggage claim, I was walking next to Hilary Swank,” Jada Bafus told The Daily Mail on Wednesday, December 10, per Page Six. “And I did a double take on her because it’s Hilary Swank and I am a fan of her movies and stuff.”
Bafus had been at the airport with her sons Mason, 7, and Jack, 4, whom she was taking to Disneyland on a Make-a-Wish vacation. The boys have Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, a genetic disorder that causes progressive loss of muscle. Bafus said she took out her phone “because I got distracted” while trying to find her kids and husband.
“I just looked, like, you know, I was trying to call my husband,” she recalled. “I wasn’t taking a picture.”
According to Page Six, Bafus had previously described the alleged encounter via a recent Instagram post, quoting Swank, 51, as saying, “You got what you needed? Get what you came for? Enjoy that picture.”
“Ma’am … I wasn’t trying a picture of you,” Bafus wrote, according to the outlet. “I was trying to find my 2 terminally ill boys at baggage claim. But thanks for poking at a stressed mom on her kid’s Make-a-Wish trip. Iconic timing because she lived here in Spokane long ago!”
Adding an upside-down smiley face emoji, Bafus added: “So random!”
In her interview with The Daily Mail, Bafus said that Swank “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 added, however, that the two-time Oscar winner reached out directly to apologize to her via Instagram and explained that she had not wanted her 2-year-old twins, Aya and Ohm, being photographed.
“I did not expect Hilary Swank to directly talk to me,” Bafus said. “It was just, like, a ‘Woah.’ I was taken aback.”
Bafus’ husband, Bryan, called the interaction “unexpected” and wondered why Swank would “snap back at anybody when you’re in that profession” but noted that they’re “not upset” at her.
As Us Weekly notes, Swank did apologize on Instagram and asked that the woman not share it. The only thing I’ll say in Swank’s defense is that everyone’s stressed out at the airport, and Swank apparently had her kids with her, which added to the dispute (Swank thought that the woman was taking photos of her kids). But yeah…if this woman is to be believed, Swank was extremely rude, and that’s before we even get to the part about the woman traveling with her sons on a Make-a-Wish trip. I hope Hilary Swank felt like sh-t! I would in her place. I once texted something bitchy to my lawn guy, not realizing that he and his wife had just welcomed their first child the day before. I could not apologize fast enough! I still feel like sh-t about that.
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