Passenger’s horrific diarrhea gets flight cancelled: ‘I’M SO SORRY’

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There are bad toilet experiences, bad public toilet experiences, and then there bad toilet experiences while on a plane.

But that’s exactly what happened to Meghan Reinertsen, who was travelling from Portugal to the U.S. on a United Airlines flight when she began feeling what would eventually be the worst diarrhea of her life.

The sudden bout hit fast and while she made it to the washroom, the result was so vile the airline had to halt their takeoff so specialists in hazmat suits could clean up her massive mess.

“I single-handedly got a flight out of Indianapolis cancelled,” an apologetic Reinertsen recently revealed to her more than 20 million TikTok viewers about last year’s incident.

“If that flight cancellation changed the trajectory of your life in a really negative way, I’m so sorry,” she continued in the post that has garnered nearly 20 million views.

“But it wasn’t without pain and suffering.”

Reinertsen, a nanny and aspiring actress, explained that she was travelling back to the U.S. for a film premiere when “a disturbance deep, deep” in her bowels ignited.

She recalled: “Something is brewing. Something is happening that I am not prepared to deal with.”

Apparently, Reinertsen got food poisoning after eating an undercooked burger the night before her flight.

“I’m full body sweating, I’m crying, my insides are cramping,” she recounted of the moments leading up to the toilet tear-up.

Despite the seatbelt signs still being on, she raced to the washroom to do her business because she did not want a public accident.

“I couldn’t let that happen to me so for the next 20 minutes, I have more diarrhea than any human should have in their life.”

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But because food poisoning can cause a number of symptoms, Reinertsen also began to experience nausea, forcing her to go back and forth between vomiting and pooping for the duration of the flight — which meant other passengers were left with one less washroom to use.

Reinertsen was then told by a flight attendant that the trip that was scheduled on the plane after her flight was cancelled due to the destruction in the bathroom.

“They cancelled that flight because of me. The hazmat team [had] to come in and clean it, because [they didn’t] know if I’d brought [a disease] back from Portugal,” Reinertsen said with a groan.