“Arrow” and "Heels" actor Stephen Amell said he had “too many drinks” before a turbulent incident in June in which he was kicked off a plane.
The star said he wanted to explain what happened during a recent appearance on actor Michael Rosenbaum’s “Inside of You” podcast.
“I had too many drinks — and I had too many drinks in a public place,” Amell said on Tuesday’s episode. “I got on a plane. ... I was pissed off about something else that had nothing to do with Cass, my wife, and I picked a fight.”
Amell previously confirmed he was removed from a Delta flight, writing in a pair of June 23 tweets that he and his wife, Cassandra Jean, had gotten into an argument.
On Tuesday’s podcast, Amell said he doesn’t remember what upset him in the first place that day.
“I picked a fight because I wanted to be loud and upset,” he told Rosenbaum. “And it was a fight, as in like, it was not an argument. In order to have an argument, two people have to be talking. My wife said one thing the entire time, which was, ‘If you don’t lower your voice, they’re gonna ask you to get off the plane.’”
In his June tweets, Amell wrote that he “let my emotions get the better of me” before the flight from Austin to Los Angeles.
“I was asked to lower my voice and I did,” Amell tweeted at the time. “Approximately 10 minutes later I was asked to leave the flight. And I did so immediately. I was not forcibly removed.”
Amell, 40, starred as Oliver Queen — known as the Green Arrow — on the DC Comics-inspired “Arrow,” which aired for eight seasons on The CW before ending last year.
