Depraved’s Marissa Bode Reveals Why She Was ‘Taken Aback’ by 1 Sentence from a Flight Attendant

Marissa Bode is highlighting a easy act of kindness she not too long ago skilled whereas touring by an airport.

The Depraved star, 24, took to her TikTok on Monday, June 16, to element the uncommon second, whereas additionally getting candid in regards to the ongoing points that wheelchair customers usually expertise when touring by aircraft.

“You understand the bar is in h— after I bought lowkey emotional when an airport employee, for as soon as, for as soon as, acknowledged my autonomy,” she begins the video. She then recalled her earlier experiences with airport wheelchair-assist staff and TSA brokers being “horrendous” when it got here to listening and chatting with her instantly.

“Right here I’m, as soon as once more, about to get off the flight. They bring about the aisle chair over. The 2 wheelchair-assist individuals are about to assist me,” Bode recounts. “And this individual goes to the flight attendant, ‘How ought to we assist her? What ought to we do?’ And the flight attendant was like, ‘Ask her. She is aware of what’s finest and what’s most comfy for her. Ask her.” 

Although Bode notes that “logically,” this ought to be the anticipated plan of action, she says that it is not often the case. 

“It’s so exhausting, each single time. Each single time I’m on the airport, they all the time ask each other, they by no means ask me till they completely need to, as a result of once more, nobody bothered to ask me within the first place, so that they don’t know what to do,” she continues in frustration. 

She goes on to say that staff speaking to one another as if she’s not there makes her really feel “fully invisible.”

Bode wished to acknowledge the thoughtful airport employee. 

“Shoutout to outdated boy,” she provides within the clip. “It shouldn’t be one thing that I’m stunned by or one thing I’m praising within the first place, as a result of it ought to simply be commonplace, however it completely isn’t, sadly. All like to flight attendant man for being the one rarity of really seeing me as an individual.” 

Many wheelchair customers have raised grievances over time in regards to the third-party wheelchair help staff in airports and what they declare is disrespectful habits towards those that use the service.

Whereas airways sometimes contract out this work, in October 2024, the U.S. Division of Transportation hit American Airways with a $50 million penalty for its “quite a few critical violations” in opposition to passengers with disabilities who traveled with them between 2019 and 2023. 

“The period of tolerating poor therapy of airline passengers with disabilities is over,” stated former U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg in a press release shared in a launch on the time.

“With this penalty, we’re setting a brand new commonplace of accountability for airways that violate the civil rights of passengers with disabilities,” Buttigieg continued. “By setting penalties at ranges past a mere price of doing enterprise for airways, we’re aiming to alter how the trade behaves and stop these sorts of abuses from taking place within the first place.”