November 26, 2025 • 21 mins
Police are officially investigating claims Tara Reid has made that someone spiked her drink over the weekend at a hotel bar just outside of Chicago. Videos emerged of Reid looking wasted and out of control, after she says she only had a single glass of wine that she briefly stepped away from to smoke a cigarette. She was eventually taken out on a stretcher and to an area hospital, where Reid says workers told her she was “drugged.” Reid says she can’t remember much and said the hospital was “vague” about what was in her system, but filed a police report which prompted the investigation. Police say they are now working with the hotel to go through surveillance video to find out what really happened that night.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hey, that folks, it is Wednesday, November twenty sixth. What
the actual hell is going on with Tara Reid? Welcome
to this episode of Amy and TJ. There's so many
ways to try to say what is going on with her?
We have to start with the possibility that she is
(00:23):
the victim of a crime, right, Shall we start with that?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Yes, because authorities did confirm late yesterday that Tara Reid
has filed a police report regarding an incident she says
she suffered over the weekend in Chicago, and they confirmed
that they are investigating.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Okay, so that is one hundred percent and all of
that is legit. Now we hear that, and we hear
those details. That is a real story about a real
potential crime. The reasons questions are being asked, Robes is
because the details you just gave of our company by
some pretty damning, damaging videos.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Correct. So we'll start with what terror Reid says happened.
She was in Chicago. She was there, I believe she was.
I don't know what she was signing, but she was
in some sort of signing ceremony for an appearance at
the Chicago Sports Spectacular event. So she was there and
(01:27):
she says she went down to the hotel bar around
ten thirty pm on Saturday night, and she says she
woke up eight hours later in the hospital. But there
are a lot of eyewitness reports and there is a
lot of bystander video, and soon we will most likely
have or at least the hotel and police will be
(01:49):
able to review surveillance video on top of that. But
she believes that she was drugged. She believes that someone
slipped some sort of foreign substance in her drink. When
she took a break, she said she had only had
one glass of wine. She said she met somebody at
the bar. They kind of hit it off, and they
decided to go smoke a cigarette. So she said she
(02:11):
left her drink unattended at the bar, and when she
came back from the smoke break, there was a napkin
over it, which she did not put on it, and
she says that because I guess she feels like that
was suspicious. But then she took the napkin off and
finished her one glass of wine. That's all she says
(02:32):
she had that evening.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Okay, So that's the story that she tells. The story
that we see that doesn't match the story she tells,
is the part about her just having one glass of wine.
What we see of the person in the video, That
person did not just have one glass of wine. They
either had many mini glasses of wine or hey had
(02:57):
ingested a drug. That person was not okay correct.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
So either someone slipped something to her, or she's not
telling the truth about how much alcohol she consumed, or
she could have been on something else. Who knows. I mean,
I don't know certain even if it was a verifiable
prescription drug, sometimes they don't mix well with even a
glass of wine. Or maybe there was some marijuana, like
(03:21):
who knows. Only Tara Reid actually knows. But she is
claiming she is the victim of a crime. She actually
went so far as to say, thank god it happened
in a public space and I wasn't raped, because she
really feels like she was she was targeted. And she
mentioned that in this hotel lobby there were YouTubers that
(03:42):
were recording things, and she said when she came up
to the bar, she already had a weird energy or
felt like things were off a bit, and so she
didn't directly point the finger at these YouTubers, but she
suggested that perhaps the she was implying that perhaps someone
slipped something her drink so that they could take videos
of her and upload it to YouTube.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Okay, so the video we see rooms the h I
think that this is the full video we both seen.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
We have seen it.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
That's out there. It starts out. It appears she's sitting
in maybe a couch like a lounge Aerreya. I didn't
see a bar in the video.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
At that point. I think she was already so in
such bad shape that they were trying to First they
were trying to get her just back up to her room,
I believe, but then they ended up having to call paramedics.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
So this is where the video picks up. I'm seeing
this lounge area, yes, and they're trying to get her
in a wheelchair wheelchair to the point I think two
security guys. They're getting frustrated, one in particular because Tara
Reid and is this the guy she met? Because there
was some guy trying to help her.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
I believe. I mean it seems as though because she
said she got chummy with this guy and they exchanged
numbers and so he there you do see this man
who's not a security guard or not a paramedic or
AMT worker trying to help her get into this chair.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
So there was a little back and forth between that guy,
that stranger and the security guy who gets frustrated and
annoyed with him and say, hey, we're gonna have a
problem if you touch me again. So it was a
kind of a tense and frustrating at least moment for
the security guys. They I mean, she just wouldn't sit up.
They couldn't get her to sit in the chair to
(05:23):
where she almost just kept her body as a plank
or she kept sliding out of it as they tried
to wheel her across the lobby.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
And she was yelling, yelling, but she was speaking loudly
and she was slurring her words, and one of the
bystanders said, she was saying, you don't know who I am.
I'm famous, I'm an actress. So it's hard. You know,
I don't know what a drug slipped into your drink
would would, what the impact or what the effect it
(05:53):
would be on you. But it did. Like if you
were just looking at this video, you would just think, Wow,
girl had way too much to drink. And we've all
seen people like this at the bar, like it's sadly
a common scene at one o'clock in the morning at
a hotel lobby on a Saturday night. That is what
this was.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
She also said again, that's what we wrecked. Now, we
want to make sure we are not suggesting this. We're
taking her at every bit of her word. But if
you are looking at the video and we hadn't told
you the backstory, you would just say, wow, that person's
wasted exactly exactly.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
So she claims her timeline is a little off. So
she actually when she got back, first of all, she
did file the police report, and we'll get into what
police had to say about all of this in just
a moment. But she decided to go on to TMZ
and talk to Harvey Levin, and she actually gave a
very specific timeline, saying she went down to the bar
around ten thirty, and she says she was in the
(06:49):
hospital by midnight. That timeline is already off because you
can actually see the timing of the videos. She was
being loaded into an ambulance right around on one am,
So there's an hour and a half discrepancy about so
one glass of wine. She needs it to be a
short timeline to fit that narrative if she just had
(07:09):
one glass of wine.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Oh so wait a minute, so the timing is off.
I'll help me with that math again. So she appears
she's she was there longer. Yeah, she thought, that's what.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Yeah, that's where it's a little confusing, because it was
ten thirty when she went down there, and she's and
then she said she did take a smoke break. You
know how long was the smoke break? I don't know.
She went outside with this man.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Where are we getting the ten thirty?
Speaker 2 (07:38):
That is where she she said, I went down to
the bar at ten thirty pm. But we don't know
what she was doing beforehand. We don't know where she
was beforehand. We don't know if she was drinking anything
or eating anything. We don't know anything leading up to
when she came down to the bar at ten thirty.
And so yes, this is it is questionable. And you
(08:02):
could see the skepticism from Harvey Levin because he really
got specific and asked her a lot of questions. And
he asked her, Okay, so what did they say at
the hospital. You went to the hospital, what happened? Obviously,
you go in in a state like that, you would presume,
I would assume that you'd have. He asked her, did
they test your blood alcohol level? She said, I don't know.
(08:24):
He said, did they test you for any unknown substance?
I don't know. But then she said they told me
I was drugged. Yes, and so he was. So the
obvious follow up is, okay, so the hospital, doctors, nurses, whomever,
someone at the hospital told you you were drugged. What
drug did they say you had in your system?
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Did she use the word vague?
Speaker 2 (08:49):
She did. She said they were vague with her, and
he said, well, what happened? And she's like, I didn't ask.
And that is where you lose me. If you are
waking up in a hospital disoriented, you don't know how
you got there. The last thing you remember is having
one glass of wine. You wake up and that someone
(09:10):
tells me I've been drugged. The first question out of
my mind is what did I get drugged with? What
is in my system? What did you find? And we
also know it takes a while sometimes for toxicology reports
to come back blood alcohol. I don't know how quickly
they can come up with that, but I think pretty quickly.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Yeah, a cop can figure it out.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
On the street with the breathalyzer. Yes, but like if
they're taking a blood alcohol test, maybe it takes a
day or two. But the point being is she was
in the hospital. This is going to be documented. I
would imagine that they would have taken a vial of
blood or something to test her, would you not.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
But she went to the hospital. Yeah, we saw her
wheeled out. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Yeah, she was in a stretcher because first they tried
the wheelchair. That didn't work so well, so they had
to go and actually literally strap her into a stretcher
because she was flailing. She was she was she didn't
have a lot of strength in her to fight, but
she was resisting being put into the wheelchair and resisting
(10:10):
getting onto that stretcher and being loaded into that ambulance.
So this this is a tough one because she is
absolutely pointing the finger at someone else doing her wrong.
And she has said that all she did was have
one glass of wine.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Okay, and everything she says might be true. I think
if she had another, like a prescription drug in her
system and this happened, I think she would let us
know and explain that. Again, it's a mystery. Is this
a danger? Did someone out there actually try to drug Terry.
That is a big deal. It is who who is
(10:54):
this guy? I mean, that's the only suspect that is possible.
Excuse me, I'm using the word suspect. I want to
be clear here.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
But he was with her. See that's the thing. The
guy who the guy who you see in the video,
that guy actually went out with her to smoke. So
she's saying someone who was there at the bar while
she was gone and left her drink, that someone while
she was out with this guy smoking must have put
something in her glass. And yes, she actually specifically said
(11:20):
because you asked about the vague, she specifically said that
they were vague when she asked. So that doesn't also
make a lot of sense. I don't. I can't imagine
a nurse or a doctor being vague about what they
found is wrong with you. That doesn't make any.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Sense to me. And this was about a five minute
or so interview that they posted it. It's worth a
watch if you do get a chance. But robe, they
can solve this crime pretty quickly, this potential crime pretty quickly.
There's a camera all over the place in any hotel,
lobby and bar, and you don't you think the Double
Tree and their corporate office demanded to see that video
(12:04):
immediately so they can come out and say, Hey, there
was nobody running around our hotel drugging our guests.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
That's the last kind of pr that hotel wants to
have something happened like that to someone with a name
like Tara Reid, as famous as she is, to have
some criminal act happened to her under their watch, at
their bar, at their hotel. So yes, they will have
every incentive to fully investigate this. And when we come back,
(12:33):
we're going to tell you what police had to say.
We'll tell you what now Tara Reid's own spokesperson has
to say. And of course we have to point out
the fact that this is a young lady who has
had substance abuse issues and has struggled with sobriety in
the past. Continuing our conversation about what happened, what may
(13:06):
have happened in that hotel lobby in a Chicago airport hotel,
the DoubleTree Hotel just outside of Chicago near O'Hare, where
Tara Reid says she was drugged. She says someone put
something in her drink that led to this video that
is now everywhere. It's a tough video to watch. I
(13:26):
can't imagine. I was thinking if I were her and
the next day and you see, I mean it's it's
I mean it it is. I don't even want to
say humiliating, but it is like she was not in
control of her body. She was not in control of
her mind or her words or any that. She was
completely out of it. And she says it isn't her fault.
(13:47):
She had one glass of wine. This had nothing to
do with anything she did wrong, but it should be
noted in two thousand and eight, cause I had to
go back and look, I couldn't remember. I remember she
had some stuff, sense abuse issues, but she reportedly got sober.
She spent a ninety day she had a ninety day
rehab stant in Malibu, And there's a quote from her
(14:09):
in two thousand and nine saying, rehab saved my life.
Before I used to think about tomorrow and I hated it.
Now I can't wait because I am clean and sober,
and I am excited. And look, I don't know what
anyone's individual path to or through sobriety means. Does that
mean that you can have a glass of wine every
now and then. I don't know. Everyone has different ways
(14:31):
of addressing what sobriety means. Harvey Levin even asked her like,
have you been California sober? Meaning do you take marijuana products?
Maybe and not drink so much. He was just trying
to feel her out, because it did seem as though,
even in the interview that maybe she was. She didn't
come off as somebody who was fully in control of
(14:51):
her faculties. And maybe she's dealing with the aftermath of
everything she's been through and she's been traumatized, as her
spokesperson said, so, but if you watch the interview, this
doesn't seem like a young woman who is sharp and rested,
and it's questionable, I guess, just in terms of her
demeanor and her speech seemed a little off.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Do you remember, I can't remember how long after the
incident was the interview.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
So this happened Saturday night, she was in the hospital.
On Sunday, she actually went on and did this signing,
the signing ceremony or whatever she was doing. Her agent
came and got her from the hospital, and she says
they went to the event that she had agreed to
do that she was employed to do and then went
home on Sunday. She talked to Harvey the next day.
So you know, it was within less than forty eight hours.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
O who no, I thought she was feeling So it could.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Like, yes, it absolutely, but this is not when you
see the interview, it's a little concerning.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
The part the thing about the Mexican woman in the hospital.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
We did mention it go well. She said, as she
was describing basically how disoriented she was in the hospital,
she said she didn't know where she was, and she
said there was a woman, oh ye who was over
her or looking over her in the room, and she
was Mexican and she wasn't speaking English. And she said,
at one point I thought I was in Mexico. She
was saying that, I think to say, see, I was
(16:10):
completely in an altered state, but it ended up coming
off a little differently. So she was trying to explain
how out of it she was. So here is what
police have had to say, and this is I guess
the area. I'm not as familiar with Chicago suburbs, but
the Rosemont area. So the Rosemont Public Safety Department understands
(16:31):
the severity of the allegations being reported and are committed
to investigating this incident fully. At this point, we are
in communication with the hotel to gather as much video
surveillance as possible. As this incident has just been reported
(16:51):
and is still open, no further information is available at
this time. And you said this right away. They have
so many cameras. If anyone put anything in her drink,
it will be you will see it.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
There is a camera on that drink from the time
she receives it until she gets in a ambulance. Absolutely so,
I mean, I guess she don't suggest maybe the bartender
put something in her drink. I've been sure they got
an eye on the bartender as well. They should be
able to wrap this up pretty quickly.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
That in addition to whatever the hospital tests would show.
I mean, I'm again, I mean, I don't know again
as a standard operating procedure, but I would think it
would be someone comes in in that state, you have
to make sure they're okay, you have to make sure
they don't have a life threatening substance in them. You
have to do some sort of test to say, what
is this poor girl dealing with?
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Okay, Okay, I don't know, but she told us that
they did.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Yeah, but they were vague about what it was that
they told her she was drug So look, now you've
got hospital tests that we will or at least police
will be received. I don't think we will. There's some
privacy issues there, but police will know.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Can they get that? Well, this is a crime, and.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
She reported it and she's asked for it to be investigated.
So that is happening. And her spokesperson said this, and
this I believe was after she was on TMZ. She
as in Tara is cooperating fully with the investigation. Tara
is recovering and asks for privacy during this traumatic time.
(18:27):
She also urges everyone to be careful, watch your drinks
and never leave them unattended unattended, as this can happen
to anyone.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
She's standing by that story, I mean, but right now
she's putting it out there as a belief MM because
she has no evidence of what she's saying, and she
doesn't have to prove anything to us. If that's what
she believes, that's fine. But when you follow a police report,
now you have to produce.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Evidence, and it's a crime to file a false police report.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
So now she has to This is a just thing.
We could just let it go if she was just
doing this and didn't get police involved. Now it's a Syria,
it's a criminal matter.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Correct, And you know, when she was talking to TMZ,
they asked her if she had filed a police report,
and at that point she was like, well, I think
I'm going to, and then she did. So it is
official and the investigation is ongoing, and we will be
sure to follow this story and let you know what develops.
(19:35):
But we're glad she's okay. We hope she's doing better.
We hope that she, if anything, doesn't leave for drink unattended.
That's something that I told my daughters from the moment
they started going out when I wasn't with them. Always
always keep your drink with you.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Okay, I don't. This is crazy. My mother taught me
this about my milk carton in elementary school. If you
ever walk away from it or turn your back on
it and do not drink it, she.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Told me, that's amazing. Again, we're not just talking about
alcoholic beverages. You're talking so to coffee whatever.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
But for women going out like that, that.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Is a like I have chills just thinking about it.
That is a like that is it? You never you
always have a wing woman, you never go home alone,
you never walk alone, and you always keep your drink
with you.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
So, if nothing else, maybe this is a moment of
a reminder around the holidays. If nothing else, this is
making that point. But yes, and the napkin was a peculiar,
peculiar detail to me, that's something that a bartender would
do if you noticed somebody's drinks and think you're going to.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Come back, yeah, in a way. If that is the case,
that would seem as though he was protecting her drink, yeah,
from any possible substance. So we shall see. But in
the meantime, everyone, thank you for listening to us. We
always appreciate you. I'm Amy Roebuck alongside TJ. Holmes. We'll
talk to you soon. Two two
Hey, that folks, it is Wednesday, November twenty sixth. What
the actual hell is going on with Tara Reid? Welcome
to this episode of Amy and TJ. There's so many
ways to try to say what is going on with her?
We have to start with the possibility that she is
(00:23):
the victim of a crime, right, Shall we start with that?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Yes, because authorities did confirm late yesterday that Tara Reid
has filed a police report regarding an incident she says
she suffered over the weekend in Chicago, and they confirmed
that they are investigating.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Okay, so that is one hundred percent and all of
that is legit. Now we hear that, and we hear
those details. That is a real story about a real
potential crime. The reasons questions are being asked, Robes is
because the details you just gave of our company by
some pretty damning, damaging videos.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Correct. So we'll start with what terror Reid says happened.
She was in Chicago. She was there, I believe she was.
I don't know what she was signing, but she was
in some sort of signing ceremony for an appearance at
the Chicago Sports Spectacular event. So she was there and
(01:27):
she says she went down to the hotel bar around
ten thirty pm on Saturday night, and she says she
woke up eight hours later in the hospital. But there
are a lot of eyewitness reports and there is a
lot of bystander video, and soon we will most likely
have or at least the hotel and police will be
(01:49):
able to review surveillance video on top of that. But
she believes that she was drugged. She believes that someone
slipped some sort of foreign substance in her drink. When
she took a break, she said she had only had
one glass of wine. She said she met somebody at
the bar. They kind of hit it off, and they
decided to go smoke a cigarette. So she said she
(02:11):
left her drink unattended at the bar, and when she
came back from the smoke break, there was a napkin
over it, which she did not put on it, and
she says that because I guess she feels like that
was suspicious. But then she took the napkin off and
finished her one glass of wine. That's all she says
(02:32):
she had that evening.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Okay, So that's the story that she tells. The story
that we see that doesn't match the story she tells,
is the part about her just having one glass of wine.
What we see of the person in the video, That
person did not just have one glass of wine. They
either had many mini glasses of wine or hey had
(02:57):
ingested a drug. That person was not okay correct.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
So either someone slipped something to her, or she's not
telling the truth about how much alcohol she consumed, or
she could have been on something else. Who knows. I mean,
I don't know certain even if it was a verifiable
prescription drug, sometimes they don't mix well with even a
glass of wine. Or maybe there was some marijuana, like
(03:21):
who knows. Only Tara Reid actually knows. But she is
claiming she is the victim of a crime. She actually
went so far as to say, thank god it happened
in a public space and I wasn't raped, because she
really feels like she was she was targeted. And she
mentioned that in this hotel lobby there were YouTubers that
(03:42):
were recording things, and she said when she came up
to the bar, she already had a weird energy or
felt like things were off a bit, and so she
didn't directly point the finger at these YouTubers, but she
suggested that perhaps the she was implying that perhaps someone
slipped something her drink so that they could take videos
of her and upload it to YouTube.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Okay, so the video we see rooms the h I
think that this is the full video we both seen.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
We have seen it.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
That's out there. It starts out. It appears she's sitting
in maybe a couch like a lounge Aerreya. I didn't
see a bar in the video.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
At that point. I think she was already so in
such bad shape that they were trying to First they
were trying to get her just back up to her room,
I believe, but then they ended up having to call paramedics.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
So this is where the video picks up. I'm seeing
this lounge area, yes, and they're trying to get her
in a wheelchair wheelchair to the point I think two
security guys. They're getting frustrated, one in particular because Tara
Reid and is this the guy she met? Because there
was some guy trying to help her.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
I believe. I mean it seems as though because she
said she got chummy with this guy and they exchanged
numbers and so he there you do see this man
who's not a security guard or not a paramedic or
AMT worker trying to help her get into this chair.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
So there was a little back and forth between that guy,
that stranger and the security guy who gets frustrated and
annoyed with him and say, hey, we're gonna have a
problem if you touch me again. So it was a
kind of a tense and frustrating at least moment for
the security guys. They I mean, she just wouldn't sit up.
They couldn't get her to sit in the chair to
(05:23):
where she almost just kept her body as a plank
or she kept sliding out of it as they tried
to wheel her across the lobby.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
And she was yelling, yelling, but she was speaking loudly
and she was slurring her words, and one of the
bystanders said, she was saying, you don't know who I am.
I'm famous, I'm an actress. So it's hard. You know,
I don't know what a drug slipped into your drink
would would, what the impact or what the effect it
(05:53):
would be on you. But it did. Like if you
were just looking at this video, you would just think, Wow,
girl had way too much to drink. And we've all
seen people like this at the bar, like it's sadly
a common scene at one o'clock in the morning at
a hotel lobby on a Saturday night. That is what
this was.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
She also said again, that's what we wrecked. Now, we
want to make sure we are not suggesting this. We're
taking her at every bit of her word. But if
you are looking at the video and we hadn't told
you the backstory, you would just say, wow, that person's
wasted exactly exactly.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
So she claims her timeline is a little off. So
she actually when she got back, first of all, she
did file the police report, and we'll get into what
police had to say about all of this in just
a moment. But she decided to go on to TMZ
and talk to Harvey Levin, and she actually gave a
very specific timeline, saying she went down to the bar
around ten thirty, and she says she was in the
(06:49):
hospital by midnight. That timeline is already off because you
can actually see the timing of the videos. She was
being loaded into an ambulance right around on one am,
So there's an hour and a half discrepancy about so
one glass of wine. She needs it to be a
short timeline to fit that narrative if she just had
(07:09):
one glass of wine.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Oh so wait a minute, so the timing is off.
I'll help me with that math again. So she appears
she's she was there longer. Yeah, she thought, that's what.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Yeah, that's where it's a little confusing, because it was
ten thirty when she went down there, and she's and
then she said she did take a smoke break. You
know how long was the smoke break? I don't know.
She went outside with this man.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Where are we getting the ten thirty?
Speaker 2 (07:38):
That is where she she said, I went down to
the bar at ten thirty pm. But we don't know
what she was doing beforehand. We don't know where she
was beforehand. We don't know if she was drinking anything
or eating anything. We don't know anything leading up to
when she came down to the bar at ten thirty.
And so yes, this is it is questionable. And you
(08:02):
could see the skepticism from Harvey Levin because he really
got specific and asked her a lot of questions. And
he asked her, Okay, so what did they say at
the hospital. You went to the hospital, what happened? Obviously,
you go in in a state like that, you would presume,
I would assume that you'd have. He asked her, did
they test your blood alcohol level? She said, I don't know.
(08:24):
He said, did they test you for any unknown substance?
I don't know. But then she said they told me
I was drugged. Yes, and so he was. So the
obvious follow up is, okay, so the hospital, doctors, nurses, whomever,
someone at the hospital told you you were drugged. What
drug did they say you had in your system?
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Did she use the word vague?
Speaker 2 (08:49):
She did. She said they were vague with her, and
he said, well, what happened? And she's like, I didn't ask.
And that is where you lose me. If you are
waking up in a hospital disoriented, you don't know how
you got there. The last thing you remember is having
one glass of wine. You wake up and that someone
(09:10):
tells me I've been drugged. The first question out of
my mind is what did I get drugged with? What
is in my system? What did you find? And we
also know it takes a while sometimes for toxicology reports
to come back blood alcohol. I don't know how quickly
they can come up with that, but I think pretty quickly.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Yeah, a cop can figure it out.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
On the street with the breathalyzer. Yes, but like if
they're taking a blood alcohol test, maybe it takes a
day or two. But the point being is she was
in the hospital. This is going to be documented. I
would imagine that they would have taken a vial of
blood or something to test her, would you not.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
But she went to the hospital. Yeah, we saw her
wheeled out. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Yeah, she was in a stretcher because first they tried
the wheelchair. That didn't work so well, so they had
to go and actually literally strap her into a stretcher
because she was flailing. She was she was she didn't
have a lot of strength in her to fight, but
she was resisting being put into the wheelchair and resisting
(10:10):
getting onto that stretcher and being loaded into that ambulance.
So this this is a tough one because she is
absolutely pointing the finger at someone else doing her wrong.
And she has said that all she did was have
one glass of wine.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Okay, and everything she says might be true. I think
if she had another, like a prescription drug in her
system and this happened, I think she would let us
know and explain that. Again, it's a mystery. Is this
a danger? Did someone out there actually try to drug Terry.
That is a big deal. It is who who is
(10:54):
this guy? I mean, that's the only suspect that is possible.
Excuse me, I'm using the word suspect. I want to
be clear here.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
But he was with her. See that's the thing. The
guy who the guy who you see in the video,
that guy actually went out with her to smoke. So
she's saying someone who was there at the bar while
she was gone and left her drink, that someone while
she was out with this guy smoking must have put
something in her glass. And yes, she actually specifically said
(11:20):
because you asked about the vague, she specifically said that
they were vague when she asked. So that doesn't also
make a lot of sense. I don't. I can't imagine
a nurse or a doctor being vague about what they
found is wrong with you. That doesn't make any.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Sense to me. And this was about a five minute
or so interview that they posted it. It's worth a
watch if you do get a chance. But robe, they
can solve this crime pretty quickly, this potential crime pretty quickly.
There's a camera all over the place in any hotel,
lobby and bar, and you don't you think the Double
Tree and their corporate office demanded to see that video
(12:04):
immediately so they can come out and say, Hey, there
was nobody running around our hotel drugging our guests.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
That's the last kind of pr that hotel wants to
have something happened like that to someone with a name
like Tara Reid, as famous as she is, to have
some criminal act happened to her under their watch, at
their bar, at their hotel. So yes, they will have
every incentive to fully investigate this. And when we come back,
(12:33):
we're going to tell you what police had to say.
We'll tell you what now Tara Reid's own spokesperson has
to say. And of course we have to point out
the fact that this is a young lady who has
had substance abuse issues and has struggled with sobriety in
the past. Continuing our conversation about what happened, what may
(13:06):
have happened in that hotel lobby in a Chicago airport hotel,
the DoubleTree Hotel just outside of Chicago near O'Hare, where
Tara Reid says she was drugged. She says someone put
something in her drink that led to this video that
is now everywhere. It's a tough video to watch. I
(13:26):
can't imagine. I was thinking if I were her and
the next day and you see, I mean it's it's
I mean it it is. I don't even want to
say humiliating, but it is like she was not in
control of her body. She was not in control of
her mind or her words or any that. She was
completely out of it. And she says it isn't her fault.
(13:47):
She had one glass of wine. This had nothing to
do with anything she did wrong, but it should be
noted in two thousand and eight, cause I had to
go back and look, I couldn't remember. I remember she
had some stuff, sense abuse issues, but she reportedly got sober.
She spent a ninety day she had a ninety day
rehab stant in Malibu, And there's a quote from her
(14:09):
in two thousand and nine saying, rehab saved my life.
Before I used to think about tomorrow and I hated it.
Now I can't wait because I am clean and sober,
and I am excited. And look, I don't know what
anyone's individual path to or through sobriety means. Does that
mean that you can have a glass of wine every
now and then. I don't know. Everyone has different ways
(14:31):
of addressing what sobriety means. Harvey Levin even asked her like,
have you been California sober? Meaning do you take marijuana products?
Maybe and not drink so much. He was just trying
to feel her out, because it did seem as though,
even in the interview that maybe she was. She didn't
come off as somebody who was fully in control of
(14:51):
her faculties. And maybe she's dealing with the aftermath of
everything she's been through and she's been traumatized, as her
spokesperson said, so, but if you watch the interview, this
doesn't seem like a young woman who is sharp and rested,
and it's questionable, I guess, just in terms of her
demeanor and her speech seemed a little off.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Do you remember, I can't remember how long after the
incident was the interview.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
So this happened Saturday night, she was in the hospital.
On Sunday, she actually went on and did this signing,
the signing ceremony or whatever she was doing. Her agent
came and got her from the hospital, and she says
they went to the event that she had agreed to
do that she was employed to do and then went
home on Sunday. She talked to Harvey the next day.
So you know, it was within less than forty eight hours.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
O who no, I thought she was feeling So it could.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Like, yes, it absolutely, but this is not when you
see the interview, it's a little concerning.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
The part the thing about the Mexican woman in the hospital.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
We did mention it go well. She said, as she
was describing basically how disoriented she was in the hospital,
she said she didn't know where she was, and she
said there was a woman, oh ye who was over
her or looking over her in the room, and she
was Mexican and she wasn't speaking English. And she said,
at one point I thought I was in Mexico. She
was saying that, I think to say, see, I was
(16:10):
completely in an altered state, but it ended up coming
off a little differently. So she was trying to explain
how out of it she was. So here is what
police have had to say, and this is I guess
the area. I'm not as familiar with Chicago suburbs, but
the Rosemont area. So the Rosemont Public Safety Department understands
(16:31):
the severity of the allegations being reported and are committed
to investigating this incident fully. At this point, we are
in communication with the hotel to gather as much video
surveillance as possible. As this incident has just been reported
(16:51):
and is still open, no further information is available at
this time. And you said this right away. They have
so many cameras. If anyone put anything in her drink,
it will be you will see it.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
There is a camera on that drink from the time
she receives it until she gets in a ambulance. Absolutely so,
I mean, I guess she don't suggest maybe the bartender
put something in her drink. I've been sure they got
an eye on the bartender as well. They should be
able to wrap this up pretty quickly.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
That in addition to whatever the hospital tests would show.
I mean, I'm again, I mean, I don't know again
as a standard operating procedure, but I would think it
would be someone comes in in that state, you have
to make sure they're okay, you have to make sure
they don't have a life threatening substance in them. You
have to do some sort of test to say, what
is this poor girl dealing with?
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Okay, Okay, I don't know, but she told us that
they did.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Yeah, but they were vague about what it was that
they told her she was drug So look, now you've
got hospital tests that we will or at least police
will be received. I don't think we will. There's some
privacy issues there, but police will know.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Can they get that? Well, this is a crime, and.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
She reported it and she's asked for it to be investigated.
So that is happening. And her spokesperson said this, and
this I believe was after she was on TMZ. She
as in Tara is cooperating fully with the investigation. Tara
is recovering and asks for privacy during this traumatic time.
(18:27):
She also urges everyone to be careful, watch your drinks
and never leave them unattended unattended, as this can happen
to anyone.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
She's standing by that story, I mean, but right now
she's putting it out there as a belief MM because
she has no evidence of what she's saying, and she
doesn't have to prove anything to us. If that's what
she believes, that's fine. But when you follow a police report,
now you have to produce.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Evidence, and it's a crime to file a false police report.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
So now she has to This is a just thing.
We could just let it go if she was just
doing this and didn't get police involved. Now it's a Syria,
it's a criminal matter.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Correct, And you know, when she was talking to TMZ,
they asked her if she had filed a police report,
and at that point she was like, well, I think
I'm going to, and then she did. So it is
official and the investigation is ongoing, and we will be
sure to follow this story and let you know what develops.
(19:35):
But we're glad she's okay. We hope she's doing better.
We hope that she, if anything, doesn't leave for drink unattended.
That's something that I told my daughters from the moment
they started going out when I wasn't with them. Always
always keep your drink with you.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Okay, I don't. This is crazy. My mother taught me
this about my milk carton in elementary school. If you
ever walk away from it or turn your back on
it and do not drink it, she.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Told me, that's amazing. Again, we're not just talking about
alcoholic beverages. You're talking so to coffee whatever.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
But for women going out like that, that.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Is a like I have chills just thinking about it.
That is a like that is it? You never you
always have a wing woman, you never go home alone,
you never walk alone, and you always keep your drink
with you.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
So, if nothing else, maybe this is a moment of
a reminder around the holidays. If nothing else, this is
making that point. But yes, and the napkin was a peculiar,
peculiar detail to me, that's something that a bartender would
do if you noticed somebody's drinks and think you're going to.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Come back, yeah, in a way. If that is the case,
that would seem as though he was protecting her drink, yeah,
from any possible substance. So we shall see. But in
the meantime, everyone, thank you for listening to us. We
always appreciate you. I'm Amy Roebuck alongside TJ. Holmes. We'll
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