Tiffany Gomas begs people not to ‘judge’ her for ‘not real’ airplane meltdown
The marketing executive identified as the unhinged passenger behind the viral “that motherf—r back there is not real” rant on an American Airlines flight says her life has “blown up since the incident” — and urged people not to “judge” her.
“My life has been blown up. It’s frightening. Things go viral and everything changes,” Tiffany Gomas, 38, told the Daily Mail from the front of her $1.6 million Dallas home.
“No one knows anyone else’s story, and no one should judge. No one knows what it’s like,” she continued, adding that she is consulting a lawyer.
In the now-infamous footage, Gomas barreled to the front of the plane preparing to depart from Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport on July 2 and announced she was getting off the plane because “that motherf—er back there is not real.”
“You can sit on this plane and you can die with them or not. I’m not going to,” she yelled while clutching her $1,900 Goyard tote, before being removed by staff.
A longer clip shared this week also showed Gomas haranguing a flight attendant.
Frustrated fellow passengers later said that they were then forced to deboard before finally getting back on the plane, which delayed the Orlando-bound flight by at least three hours.
The bizarre rant apparently began as a falling out between Gomas and her relatives, who she claimed had stolen her Airpods, police records reviewed by The Post stated.
“They’re staking out my house. They’re staking out my neighbors. They’re going through my mail,” Gomas told the Daily Mail of the onslaught of media attention since her identity was made public.
She also claimed that “so much” of the story is “inaccurate,” but declined to elaborate.
Despite multiple interventions by the airport’s Department of Safety, the “distraught” Gomas tried several times to get back through TSA and reboard the plane, the police records also stated.
She was later found sitting on a curb outside the terminal waiting for an Uber, the Daily Mail reported.
Authorities issued her a warrant for criminal trespass, but she was not charged or arrested, records show.
Gomas has worked at Uppercut Marketing, LLC since 2016, according to her LinkedIn.
In 2017, she was named a “rising star” by a marketing trade publication in 2017, when she was also listed as the vice president of Elevate Brand Marketing.
