Actress Tara Reid is speaking out after she says she was drugged at a hotel bar near Chicago’s O’Hare Airport over the weekend — an incident she describes as one of the most frightening experiences of her life.
According to Page Six, during an interview with TMZ, Reid said the ordeal began after she had a drink at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Chicago O’Hare Airport – Rosemont. Moments later, she said, everything went dark.
“It’s just really scary. It’s for all — not just girls, but for guys, for anyone. You have to really be careful with your drink,” Reid warned. “It made me pass out for eight hours.”
According to Reid, she was taken by ambulance from the hotel to a nearby hospital. She said she woke up hours later with no memory of what happened.
“They just said that you were drugged. That’s what they said. They said, ‘You got drugged last night at the bar,’” she recalled, adding that doctors did not perform a blood alcohol test. She also said she was “tested to see what drug it was” but never asked for the results.
“It was all kind of vague. Like, it was all blurry. … I can’t even explain it because I don’t even know what happened,” she said.
Reid described waking up disoriented, even thinking she was “in Mexico” because a woman sitting beside her “wasn’t speaking English.”
“I was so confused of what was happening,” she said. Her agent eventually picked her up and took her to a scheduled signing event before she returned home. “It was just a big blur.”
A video that surfaced Monday showed Reid appearing incoherent as hotel staff helped her into a wheelchair before paramedics arrived.
“Everyone should really be aware about, you know, watching their drinks a lot because I don’t know what that stuff was, but whatever it is, it knocked me out like immediately,” she said.
Reid also voiced fears about what could have happened if she hadn’t been in a busy hotel bar.
“I mean, a lot of things can be done really, really, really wrong,” she said, adding she believes she could have been assaulted had she been in a more isolated place.
But authorities say no police report has yet been filed.
Rosemont Public Safety Department Lieutenant Joseph Balogh told Page Six that while his department received an EMS call and transported a patient, “there was no other mention in any reports of it being drugs or suspicious activity.”
He confirmed the department is not investigating Reid’s claims but will do so once a formal report is submitted.
“We’re waiting for that on our end,” Balogh said.
For now, Reid says she hopes the incident serves as a warning.
“The whole thing is really scary,” she said. “I’m just glad that I was in a public place … and that there was security there to help me.”
