Evangeline Lilly: Farted On A Passenger As Flight Attendant

A plane crash -- on screen -- helped launch Evangeline Lilly's career to new heights, but way before "Lost" ever began, Evangeline Lilly had a pretty gnarly experience in the air.

In her pre-TV star days, Lilly served as a flight attendant for Royal Airlines, a job she once called "the worst ever."

"That job has no redeeming qualities. I didn't like the people. I didn't like the destinations," she told David Letterman back in 2007. "I didn't like the recycled air, the crappy food. "(Or) the fact that they tell you, before you start your job, to buy your shoes two sizes too big because your feet swell."

Apparently, she's still bitter about it -- or needs a bit for talk shows -- because she spoke about it again with Jay Leno on Monday night. This time, though, she had a more positive spin on it.

On one flight -- perhaps she had eaten too many of those gross boxed meals that day -- she happened to have a bad case of gas. Which is a real pain... until you have a nasty passenger to deal with.

"One time there was this guy who was really awful to me, and I was really struggling that day, because I had really bad gas. And as a flight attendant, you don't let that go when you're on a plane," she said. "So this guy got under my skin to the point that finally I decided to save it all up, and when I was walking past him and when I got to row 48... I let it rip, right in his face."

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Comments

[Allen Adamson]

10:38 AM on 10/19/2011

Perhaps Evangeline could learn a little from Pan Am - http://www.forbes.com/sites/allenadamson/2011/10/09/what-brands-today-can-lean-from-pan-am-the-airline-and-the-tv-show/

[John-Paul Georgeringo]

05:54 PM on 10/08/2011

I was the guy sitting in row 48. I remember it well. She clearly was having a rough flight. I told her how beautiful she was and said if she were looking forward to a dinner date after our landing that might lift her spirits. She seemed pretty polite, even when she said no. Later in the flight she walks by my row and kaboom she blows it my way. It was like cannon fire. I mean loud. Stinky, too. Did she have hard-boiled eggs and a half gallon of milk for lunch? Wow! Anyway, I guess her fart is the closest I'll ever get to that sweet @ss. I'll take it. How many guys can say they've been farted on by a TV star?

[Beth Hill]

04:41 AM on 10/06/2011

That's awesome! We all do it. Why is it such a big deal to talk about it. LOL

[FlaviaDeLuce]

07:59 PM on 10/05/2011

This is an icky albeit funny article, but I watched a segment of that show and she was genuinely funny and interesting, I loved Lost but was never a fan of hers but her own personality seems great, so that was nice to see.

[Anne Siperek]

06:17 PM on 10/05/2011

well, isn't that just lovely.......pretty is as pretty does.

[petit chaton]

05:01 PM on 10/05/2011

Thanks, Evangeline! And I'd just convinced my beau that girls don't....

[Brigette]

04:34 PM on 10/05/2011

Funniest headline I've ever read.

[nermz345]

03:16 PM on 10/05/2011

that is hilarious!

[Max Shaw]

01:00 PM on 10/05/2011

Hahaha, thats awesome! I wonder if the oxygen masks deployed.

[psb6571]

12:30 PM on 10/05/2011

Slow newsday, HuffPo?

[Daws]

12:28 PM on 10/05/2011

T M I

Omg.

[RJVegas]

12:07 PM on 10/05/2011

An acquaintance, who is a flight attendant, once told me how they handle personal "gas" issues. They walk from the back to the front of the plane expelling their discomfort slowly up the aisle. He called it "crop dusting."

[Max Shaw]

01:00 PM on 10/05/2011

love it!

[FlaviaDeLuce]

08:00 PM on 10/05/2011

uff... no wonder I hate flying, almost beats the near death experience I had on it twice.

[siena allen]

11:59 AM on 10/05/2011

classy with a K

[Dan Rosenthal]

12:14 PM on 10/05/2011

.....ardashian?

[wanglog]

02:27 PM on 10/05/2011

had it been cut from hell's ditch, the back everyone's head would have been covered in vomit! i'd assume that the repugnance of k. kardashian's gas cannot be underestimated!

[bradenton]

11:32 AM on 10/05/2011

Part of my enjoyment when flying is to sit in the window seat so I can cut a "silent but deadly" as I squeeze out to the aisle. Usually they're still standing when I get back.

[simonbugatti]

11:22 AM on 10/05/2011

She's lucky it wasn't Gerard Depardieu she farted on.
Imagine Evangeline Lilly, Gerard Depardieu and Matthew Fox on the same flight ... the flight to hell.

[Tanrioldu]

08:33 PM on 10/05/2011

it would probably crash on some mystical deserted island with polar bears on it.