The actress and author, 45, first detailed the incident in a video shared to on Tuesday, Oct. 29, in which she can be seen with a plastic bag on her head. She appears to be sitting in first class while on her flight from Los Angeles to New York City.
“I’m on a plane with Caroline, and she just looked at my head,” she begins in the video, referring to her travel companion who’s seated beside her. “And remember when I told you last week that I said my head was itchy and I thought I was having symptoms?”
Bringing the camera closer to her face, she continues, “Guess what? I have f—ing lice.”
“I can’t even deal. This is insane you guys, this is insane. We have a five-hour flight. I’m wearing a bag that these came in on my head,” she adds, showing the headphones that the airline, which she didn't name, provided.
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Mollen, who is married to Orange is the New Black and American Pie actor notes that she’s “never had lice in my life” and explains that because she’s been itchy for a while now, the lice have probably been “living on me for two weeks.”
Mollen received a number of comments criticizing her actions documented in the clip.
“You shouldn’t be on a plane and that bag should be covering ALL your hair!!!” one person wrote, referring to the plastic bag. Another added, “You better inform the flight attendants. I'd be freaking out on you if I was a passenger near you…”
One comment read, “That’s disgusting. You’re going to spread that all over the plane. You should be ashamed of yourself and you're doing a video laughing about it.”