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Sandra “Pepa” Denton, 1/2 of Salt-N-Pepa is still shaken and confused by her encounter with Southwest Airlines this week, where she says she was treated like a criminal without demonstrating any criminal behavior!!!
It’s a disconcerting story, to be sure — but the “Push It” rapper joined “TMZ Live” on Wednesday to give us her detailed account of SW pushing her out of a flight On Monday I flew from Las Vegas to Nashville.
Pepa says she bought two seats to have more room for an injured knee, but wasn’t wearing her knee brace when a flight attendant approached her about the extra seat.
The next thing she knew, a man showed up asking Pepa for an extra seat, claiming he was on his way to a funeral — but she says when she asked him, eye to eye, to confirm that the funeral story was true… his lip quivered and he refused. She interpreted this as him lying.
Pepa tells us that before she could process the fiasco, a flight attendant ordered her off the flight — at which point she began recording on her cell phone — and that police officers met her at the terminal to escort her off.
As for why she was kicked… Pepa is confused, telling us she didn’t yell at anyone. Regardless, we spoke to another passenger — Shannon McCormack was sitting in the same row and confirmed that she never saw Pepa argue, until she was expelled.
Shannon says a flight attendant became upset when Pepa said she was going to record, and told her she didn’t have “consent” to film. Moments later, she says a different flight attendant came on board and said, “You, Denton, get out!”
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Now, Southwest has refunded Pepa the $2,500 she paid for her two seats. The airline tells us that the police only got involved because, once she was refunded, she didn’t have a valid ticket, and it’s standard practice for police to escort ticketless people out of the terminal.
Additionally, the airline claims it removed her from the flight because she failed to follow instructions from a crew member. We pressed, but SW wouldn’t say what instructions she failed to follow. Pepa and Shannon don’t know either, and both point out that she calmly exited the plane.
Bottom line… Pepa says Southwest’s story won’t be accepted by her lawyers!!!