Tara Reid Files Police Report After Alleged Drugging at Hotel Bar

Tara Reid has filed a police report in Illinois after claiming her drink was drugged at a hotel bar outside of Chicago last weekend. The actress said she is “willing to prosecute” anyone involved in the alleged incident, which the Rosemont Police Department is investigating, Rolling Stone can confirm. 

The police report offers Reid’s most detailed account yet of what happened last Saturday, Nov. 22, before she wound up briefly hospitalized. Reid was in the Chicago area for a celebrity signing event, and the night before, she got a drink at the hotel bar. Reid said the lobby was full of people who were “supposedly YouTubers,” who “had their phones out and the whole thing felt suspicious, but I didn’t know what was going on.” 

After ordering a glass of wine at the bar, Reid said someone came up to her and introduced himself as a “very successful influencer and YouTuber,” who was with the group in the lobby. He sat next to her, they spoke, and when Reid said she was going to step out for a cigarette, the influencer said he would go with her.

“We went out for a smoke, exchanged numbers, and came back, and there was a napkin over my drink,” Reid said, per the police report. “Then the last thing I remember was drinking that drink and seeing a couple sitting next to us. The next thing I remember was waking up in the hospital around 8 hours or more later not knowing where I was or anything that happened. I completely blacked out with no recollection of anything.”

Reid said her agent “somehow found what hospital” she’d been taken to and went to pick her up. She claimed the hospital told her she was “free to go” and did not give her “any release forms or discharge papers.” Reid’s agent took her back to the hotel, where she got her bag and checked out.

Reid claimed that the influencer she sat next to later texted her videos of her at the hotel after the alleged drugging (ostensibly referring to the footage obtained by TMZ that showed Reid slurring her words and sliding off a wheelchair, before a medical team took her out on a stretcher). Reid said she thought the influencer “was trying to extort, saying he could stop the videos going out.”

The police report ended with her saying, the influencer “also told me I called security on him and he also confirmed that I only had one drink.” 

Despite being hospitalized, Reid still attended the autograph event on Sunday, Nov. 23, where she posed with fans who’d bought tickets to meet her. An event organizer told Rolling Stone, “Even though she was late, she did come,” Adelstein says. “I did not hear one bad thing at all. She obviously was very polite and happy to everybody.”