Australia’s Qantas Airways has grounded a flight attendant after fellow crew members alleged she had sex with British actor Ralph Fiennes aboard a flight to India, news reports said on Sunday.
The woman, named by the Sunday Telegraph as Lisa Robertson (38), issued a statement denying the charge, but admitting spending ”a short period of time” in a toilet together with the 45-year-old star of the 1996 film The English Patient.
Robertson said she had struck up a friendship with Fiennes and when she went to the toilet, he followed her in.
”I explained to him that this was inappropriate and asked him to leave,” she said in the statement. ”Mr Fiennes became amorous towards me and after a short period of time I convinced him to leave the toilet, which he did.”
She has been suspended without pay over the January 24 incident.
The former police officer breached company policy by allowing Fiennes, who played Lord Voldemort in the Harry Potter films, to sit in a crew jump seat while chatting to him on her rest break.
Robertson concluded her statement by saying that ”at no time were any other customers aware of this incident”. — Sapa-dpa