Ruby Wax ended up being thrown off Donald Trump’s plane when she mocked him for wanting to be president of the United States.
Many years prior to his inauguration in 2017, the author interviewed the businessman on his private jet but things didn’t exactly go to plan after the comic and her crew were left stranded in Arkansas.
It was during the comedian’s relaunch of her Nineties series Ruby Wax Meets, the 70-year-old laughed after the entrepreneur said he would one day take up residence in the White House, much to the TV personality’s surprise.
Speaking on Good Morning Britain, Ruby recalled: “I was on his private jet and he told me he wanted to be president of the United States and I started laughing.
“He said, ‘take the jet down.’ He landed the plane so my crew and I were stuck in Arkansas with nowhere to go.”
She continued: “So eventually we found him in Nebraska – he was judging a Miss Nebraska contest.”
Ruby later dubbed her interview with Trump over two decades ago as one of the worst chats she has conducted in her career.
Addressing the “car-crash” encounter in 2021, when asked in a recent interview about her most difficult interviewee, her answer came with no hesitatation.
“Oh, Donald Trump!” she exclaimed, “That was a car crash.
“Bad interviews still make good TV, but I just think it’s appalling, and it’s what not to do.”
She went on to reveal he “threw” her off his plane in the true dramatic fashion to the controversial reality TV star came to be known for.
“I thought he was joking when he said he wanted to be the president,” she told PA. “I thought he was being funny…”
The actress has sat down with a number of big names across the world including Pamela Anderson and OJ Simpson.
Meanwhile, Ruby is set to dish on even more as she opens up about her life on Kate Garraway’s Life Stories which airs tonight.
Ruby said she had the “drive of a Rottweiler” to leave her parents’ home in the US and – had she not escaped – believes she “would be dead”.
She compared her “bizarre” upbringing to the cartoon The Addams Family while appearing in the episode.
Kate Garraway’s Life Stories airs tonight at 9pm on ITV1 and ITVX.