Mooney, whose credits include
American Pie Presents: The Book of Love as well as Kid Cannabis and episodes of
Loudermilk and
iZombie, tried on March 3 to cross at the U.S.-Mexico border, she said, in hopes of renewing her work visa. Mooney says she crossed at San Diego because that’s where her lawyer is. Instead of being granted entry — or sent back to Mexico — she was detained. That began an odyssey she said felt like a “deeply disturbing psychological experiment.”
The actress
told San Diego outlet KGTV that, in the privately-owned Otay Mesa Border Crossing Detention Center, she was “I was put in a cell, and I had to sleep on a mat with no blanket, no pillow, with an aluminum foil wrapped over my body like a dead body for two and a half days,” she said. Mooney said she was also forced to sleep on a concrete floor. In the middle of the night, the actress said she was transferred to an Arizona facility “wrapped in chains.”
Mooney is the co-founder of the Holy! Water brand, which reportedly contains Delta-9 “full spectrum hemp.” There was some speculation in the media that that connection may have raised a red flag with I.C.E., but neither the actress nor reporters have been given any official reason for her detention.
“No one told me anything. Not once,” Mooney said on landing safely back at Vancouver International Airport this week.
“I still don’t even know how I’m home,” she added. “My friends and my family and the media are the reason, I think, that I’m home.
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