“I was just full-body sweating and crying.”

A TikToker’s lavatory breakdown on a United Airlines flight led to a canceled flight and a viral lesson in self-acceptance.

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TikToker Meghan Reinertsen (@meghanreinertsen) just lately shared a two-part story about how a bout of meals poisoning spiraled right into a mid-air lavatory saga that led to a canceled United flight. Her brutally sincere and hilarious retelling, now with over 8.7 million views, has the web in stitches.

The ordeal started after Meghan took a multi-leg journey from Portugal to Indianapolis, hoping to make it to the premiere of her first SAG movie. Unfortunately, half-hour earlier than touchdown in Newark, she awoke with “a disturbance deep, deep within [her] bowels.”

Though she powered by customs and gate modifications in agony, the ultimate flight was her breaking level. “I was just full-body sweating and crying,” she stated. “I can only imagine that’s what a contraction feels like.”

Despite the seatbelt signal, she ultimately rushed to the lavatory and stayed there for the subsequent 90 minutes, battling violent waves of diarrhea and vomiting. “With every gag, death [was] knocking at the doors of my butthole,” she stated. When she realized the trash-can-sized sink wasn’t constructed for vomiting, she panicked and flung the lavatory door open, yelling, “I need help!”

@meghanreinertsen Part 1 of how I personally bought a United flight cancelled #storytime #airplane #diarrhea @United Airlines ♬ authentic sound – Meghan Reinertsen

A flight attendant shoved a barf bag into her palms and pushed her again into the tiny house. The crew checked on her repeatedly, even providing ginger ale and comforting phrases. By the time the airplane started its descent, Meghan was nonetheless within the lavatory. The flight attendant radioed the cockpit: Meghan would land whereas crouched over the tiny bathroom.

After the airplane emptied, a flight attendant gently knowledgeable her that the subsequent flight had been canceled. She thought, “What a gorgeous coincidence.”—Until she was advised a hazmat crew was coming to wash the rest room. “You canceled that flight because of me,” she laughed. “I am a biohazard.”

@meghanreinertsen Part 2 of how I personally bought a United flight cancelled #storytime #airplane #diarrhea @United Airlines ♬ authentic sound – Meghan Reinertsen

“I make it to the to the premiere; I look f*cking snatched. Let me tell you. Never looked so good in my life. I’m glowing,” she stated.

TikTok reactions to Meghan’s story

While many would disguise from the humiliation, Meghan took the other method: she posted the entire story on-line and celebrated it. “I’ve been laughing about it since it was happening,” she stated in a follow-up video. “If I had any ounce of embarrassment about this story, I would not have posted it on the internet.” 

Her TikTok viewers have been fast to reward her openness. “The storytelling was IMMACULATE,” one viewer wrote. Others thanked her for turning a nightmare into comedy.

A nervous flyer advised her, “as someone who is scared of being in these situations, your whole attitude and shamelessness really inspired me. i certainly hope it never happens to me, but i’ll know to not be ashamed and ask for help 💛”

“First she unleashed her bowels and now we pray she unleashes the arsenal of stories,” stated one other TikToker.

Meghan, an actor and author, has since embraced her newfound platform. “Some of us are just f*cking weird. I don’t know what to tell you.”

@meghanreinertsen didn’t reply instantly to the Daily Dot’s request for remark by way of Instagram DM.

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