Selma Blair revealed that she has used alcohol to cope with multiple sclerosis (MS) symptoms and nerve pain.The actress, 54, spoke about her drinking and why she got sober on a new episode of Jenny McCarthy’s podcast, which was taped before her airport arrest on October 11, following a wild mid-air meltdown.The Cruel Intentions star said that even as ‘a very young girl’ she was using alcohol to help her with headaches, anxiety and nerve pain as well as to soothe her to sleep. ‘And when you’re depressed that is never going to be a good solution,’ she said. ‘And I was just always feeling tired and depressed and that was horrible.’ She added that she does not live a ‘sober sober lifestyle’ but knows that drinking is something she ‘cannot do.’ The Daily Mail has reached out to Blair’s representative for comment. Selma Blair, 54, revealed she has used alcohol to help ease her multiple sclerosis (MS) symptoms on a new episode of Jenny McCarthy’s podcast, taped before her airport arrestMcCarthy broached the topic by asking Blair to talk about how she masked her MS symptoms by drinking. ‘It’s wild the times that I’ve gone, even as a very young girl, to alcohol. I was never someone that liked drugs. I was just afraid of them, you know,’ she said. ‘I was never someone that could tolerate opiates, thank God. Like vomit, vomit, vomit, you know, especially with all my teeth stuff,’ Blair went on. ‘But I was, even at a very young age, using it for the headaches, using it to calm down. And then I realized it was the one thing that took away my nerve pain.”But then, you know, one glass isn’t enough. Two glasses isn’t great. Three is better. Four is horrible,’ she said.Blair added that she knew drinking ‘wasn’t going to lead me to the right place.’As for her current stance on sobriety, she said: ‘I don’t live like a sober sober lifestyle with AA, but drinking, no, I cannot do.”I wish I could be someone that could have two glasses of wine and just be flirty and fun and listen better,’ she shared. The Cruel Intentions star shared that even as ‘a very young girl’ she was using alcohol to help her with headaches, anxiety, nerve pain and to go to sleep, before she got sober She told McCarthy that she does not live a ‘sober sober lifestyle’ but knows that drinking is something she ‘cannot do’ ‘And when you’re depressed that is never going to be a good solution,’ she added. ‘And I was just always feeling tired and depressed and that was horrible”I’m still a human being, but I recognize that alcohol is not good medicine for me.’McCarthy said that consuming alcohol while having an autoimmune condition is like ‘drinking toxic sludge.’ Blair said, ‘I mean, it really was tough for me. And I used it for so long in times of distress, but I never really went out and did it.’ She went on: ‘It’s funny because friends would be like – I’d be like falling around – they’re like, “How much did you drink?” And I’m like, “Oh, no. That’s later when I get home.” Like, I don’t drink in public because I know I’m using it to like go to sleep.’ McCarthy was surprised by her answer, asking, ‘It made you sleep? Because it would keep me up.”No, it would make you asleep because you pass out, and then you wake up three hours later you know wishing your life was over,’ Blair replied. The actress went on to say that she is still on antidepressants because she is ‘terrified to get off it.”I’m not on any like painkillers. I’m not on any of that. I take a couple things and I’m afraid to get off the lowest dose.’On Tuesday, McCarthy shared a clip from the podcast to her Instagram, writing: ‘DISCLAIMER: This interview was recorded before the recent events involving Selma Blair. Nothing but love for Selma and this conversation.’It comes days after Blair resurfaced following her Delta flight meltdown as she made an appearance at 90s Con on Friday in Connecticut.The star has been accused of ‘punching and biting’ members of the crew aboard a Delta aircraft bound for JFK airport and trying to open a plane door mid-flight on Sunday. It comes days after Blair resurfaced following her Delta flight meltdown as she made an appearance at 90s Con on Friday in Connecticut The star has been accused of ‘punching and biting’ members of the crew aboard a Delta aircraft bound for JFK airport and trying to open a plane door mid-flight on October 11 (pictured in court) Blair’s lawyer claimed she missed multiple doses of medication before her shocking alleged mid-air confrontation; She is seen leaving a court in New York on October 12Blair has since pled not guilty to two counts of second-degree assault stemming from allegedly kicking a Port Authority Police Department officer. She is also accused of kicking a hospital nurse.The star – whose friend Christina Applegate recently announced that she does not have MS and was ‘misdiagnosed’ for years – issued a strongly-worded statement about her alleged actions on the plane.Her spokesman told People, ‘Since Sunday night, the public account of what happened to Selma aboard a flight to New York has been built almost entirely on a police statement and a decade-old headline.’They added, ‘We can, however, correct the record on a few points already in public circulation. Selma Blair experienced a medical emergency on the flight. There was no attempt to open the door of the aircraft. Selma did not intend to harm anyone.’The spokesman added ‘the suggestion by anyone that Selma does not have multiple sclerosis is outrageous. Her diagnosis has been public since 2018. What Selma has been able to do physically in the years since is nothing short of a miracle.”She still has bad days, and she lives with pain daily. Selma also has pseudobulbar affect, a neurological condition secondary to her MS, which bears directly on how a medical episode presents to people who do not know her.”For the same reason, she travels with a service dog who doesn’t leave her side, and the authorities took her dog from her.’Adding that Blair had ‘never been arrested before Sunday night’, the statement concluded ‘there is much more to this story than has been reported, and we ask to consider the entirety of the facts before rushing to judgment, whether in the courtroom or in the court of public opinion.’Blair’s lawyer claimed that she missed multiple doses of medication before her shocking alleged mid-air confrontation.Her attorneys told the New York Post last Monday that Blair had allegedly hit her head before the confrontation on the flight traveling from Los Angeles to New York. Blair has since pled not guilty to two counts of second-degree assault stemming from allegedly kicking a Port Authority Police Department officer; seen in 2025 The actress was pictured leaving court on Monday after she was arraigned on two felony charges. Blair was seen being swarmed by reporters as police and attorneys led her out of the courthouse in New York City after she made bail. Her lawyer Shawn Barnes told the court on Monday, according to Page Six, ‘This was not an intentional assault.”Ms. Blair missed several doses of … a powerful medication that controls severe neurological symptoms’ linked to her battle with multiple sclerosis.Barnes said Blair had traveled to New York City after a long workday, and also was injured on the flight.’Ms. Blair boarded this flight after being on set and working extensive hours and exhaustive hours in the days leading up to this flight,’ Barnes said. ‘Additionally, at one point, during the flight, there was an incident where Miss Blair actually fell and hit her head.’Barnes said that ‘these factors, coupled with the altitude, resulted in a state of severe confusion and disorientation’ in the incident.Blair allegedly took her leg out of a stretcher’s straps and kicked at a Port Authority Police Officer’s face, neck and chest, the complaint indicated, as she was being transported in an ambulance from JFK Airport Terminal 4.According to the legal complaint, after Blair was taken to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, she kicked the chest of a registered nurse.Both the nurse and police officer reported being in pain after being attacked, prosecutors said, adding that the officer had a swollen jaw.During the flight, authorities said that Blair struck a flight attendant and bit another one, leaving both with injuries, and one seeking medical treatment.In an audio clip published by TMZ, Blair had been filmed while she was screaming as she was being removed from the aircraft. The actress went public with her MS diagnosis in 2018; Seen in March in Los AngelesJoin the discussionShould celebrities with medical conditions be treated differently when their behavior gets out of control?What’s your view?One of the flight attendants had bitemarks on their hands, while another dealt with a cut, sources told the outlet. A Delta representative told The Daily Mail that the company has ‘zero tolerance for unruly or unlawful behavior, as the safety of our customers and crew always comes first.’Blair is slated for a hearing in the matter on January 19.Blair in June of 2016 was taken off a flight headed from Cancun, Mexico, to Los Angeles, as at the time, she had been on a plane with her son Arthur and his father, Jason Bleick.After making a series of shocking statements, Blair issued an apology, stating that she had blacked out amid a combination of medication and alcohol.Blair is best known for appearing in films such as 1999’s Cruel Intentions, Legally Blonde in 2001 and the 2004 motion picture Hellboy.She went public with a multiple sclerosis diagnosis she received in 2018, and had visited the White House in 2023 at an event with then-President Joe Biden commemorating the Americans with Disabilities Act.