Even celebrity moms have trouble with their babies on planes. Actress Kaley Cuoco is opening up about a story about the stress of traveling with her 9-month-old daughter, Matilda, now that they've survived her first flight. She learned a lesson that most parents do while flying with their little ones: No matter what you do, someone will be mad at you. During a time when so many meltdowns involving children on planes have been going viral, it's understandable that Kaley was hesitant, and unfortunately, it turns out she was right to be a bit nervous.
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Kaley admitted to being 'terrified' of Matilda sleeping on the plane.
When Kaley appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! this week, she told Kimmel about the stress of traveling with Matilda and her partner, Tom Pelphrey, for the Thanksgiving holiday.
"I was so terrified," Cuoco admitted. "So I thought, 'What do we do? We have to bring her sound machine on the plane.' It’s the only thing she can go to sleep to."
They got her to sleep, but things were about to get messy.
"So she’s crying. It was hard. She finally falls asleep and she’s on Tom and the sound machine is on and we were finally like [sighs]," she said.
But things quickly went downhill from there. Getting Matilda to sleep was the first challenge they had to overcome, and they weren’t finished.
Someone on the plane wasn't pleased about Matilda's sound machine.
"The steward comes over and he’s like, 'Hey, one of our passengers would love it if you would turn the sound machine off.' And I’m sitting there, and I’m like, 'Oh my god,'" she shared. "And I can feel Tom be like, 'Hey, ask the passenger if she wants to hold our screaming child when we turn it off.' And I mean, the ice went into his veins."
Kaley then went on to say that she couldn't believe the mystery passenger would ask them to turn off the sound machine in the first place.
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Kaley and her partner were 'so angry' about the passenger's request.
Jimmy, who is a dad himself, chimed in, saying, "And what a terrible job to have to be a flight attendant and have to deliver a message of that type."
"We were so angry," Kaley replied. "So then we landed, and it was the woman right in front of us. And so we get up and she goes, 'Oh, so your daughter does know how to smile.'"
She then quipped, "It was in that moment where I understood why women end up on Dateline."
She simply wants compassion for parents and babies who travel by plane.
After that, she said she "could have thrown that woman off the plane," making a plea for people to have more compassion for babies (and the parents who are traveling with them).
"You see all these things on social media where people are really, truly getting mad at these babies. Like, justice for babies! This is ridiculous … leave them alone!" she said.
