What happened to Tara Reid in that Chicago hotel? Actress seen dazed and stretchered out in alarming footage

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Tara Reid recalls alleged drink spiking incident (Image via John Sciulli/Getty Images)

A video of actress Tara Reid slouched in a wheelchair and then in a stretcher as paramedics moved her from a hotel lobby to a nearby ambulance went viral and sparked speculations about what happened to the American Pie actress. An onlooker was able to capture the distressing incident on Sunday morning, November 23.

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Rosemont Public Safety's spokesperson confirmed to People that there was a call from the DoubleTree hotel in the Chicago area requesting an ambulance for "a sick person." In a video interview with TMZ on November 24, Tara Reid claimed that she was roofied while at the Chicago hotel bar. She recalled checking in at the hotel and going downstairs to the bar to have a drink and a cigarette.

Tara Reid at the "Attack of the Unknown" Red Carpet (Image via Denise Truscello/Getty Images)
Tara Reid at the "Attack of the Unknown" Red Carpet (Image via Denise Truscello/Getty Images)

The American Pie actress reportedly ordered her drink but left it on the bar to smoke outside, but recounted something "weird" when she went back to her drink. She said:

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"I went back to the bar, and my drink was covered up with a napkin. I thought that was weird, because I didn't put that over my drink. [And] without even finishing my drink, I just passed out. Before I knew it, I was in the hospital eight hours later."

Reid also mentioned that there were a bunch of YouTubers in the hotel bar, filming stuff while she was there.

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"It was all kind of blurry": Tara Reid recounts alleged drink spiking incident at a hotel

Tara Reid told TMZ in the video interview on November 24 that everything that happened in the eight hours between the alleged drink spiking incident at the Chicago hotel bar to waking up after being rushed to the hospital was all kinds of hazy. She mentioned seeing a Mexican woman watching over her at the hospital, which made her "confused" and think she was in another country.

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Talking about the entire incident to the outlet, the American Pie actress said:

"It was all kind of vague. It was all kind of blurry. I can't even explain it, because I don't even know what happened."

But despite the alarming incident, the actress is back on the job. She said that her agent picked her up from the hospital, and they went to the signing she was scheduled to do in Chicago. However, she also gave a stern warning to everyone after the "really scary" incident that happened to her. She said:

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"A lot of things could have gone really, really, really wrong. So this is a thing that everyone should be aware about. Cause I don't know what that stuff was, but whatever it is knocked me out."

She also said that there wasn't much explanation from the hospital about what specific drug was put in her drink, only that she was drugged. Tara Reid added that she was "glad" that it happened in a public place and there were security to help her. If the spiking incident hadn't happened in a public place, she reckoned she would have been a victim of r*pe.

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Tara Reid is known for the American Pie movies, the Sharknado movies, and the 2025 psychological thriller Dr. Quarantine.

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