Diana Ross Interview GMA 1999: "I felt 'violated' by 'invasive' Airport Security pat down" 

Diana was right to complain. They humiliates everyone and they are not nice about it

Leave Diana Ross the hell alone

I worked for the airlines for years, and I know the importance of stringent security measures, but I'm glad Diana Ross brought attention to this because IMO, the airport authorities have been out of control (mad with power) for far too long. I mean let's be real ... like what the hell did these people think Diana effing Ross was going to do?

Diana looks GORGEOUS and STUNNING with flat-ironed purple hair!!! #queen

Don't tell me it's what should we all should just expect in this era. What she's speaking out about is what she's doing for all of us

I understand Diana Ross' stance.

Diana Ross was completely right about complaining I feel her pain I to was assaulted by police for no reason

i feel like this was an attack to humble her people hate a black woman with a mind of her own and with high self esteem. that whole thing that happened to her was completely out of line.

Poor thing. She was suffering so, and you could plainly see it.

It's like be molested in public. So horrifying 😢

I felt THEN and I feel NOW, Ms. Ross was SO CORRECT to complain and to be vocal about all this. She felt violated. She deserved the right to speak out

Sooo inappropriate and humiliating...

We’re all human. Sometimes our emotions may get the best of us. She lived a lot of life up to that point- things happen. But the airport definitely sucked.

After all the things Diana Ross and many others had to endure in the 60s on the road 🤬

Lord you shouldn't have to apologize for being human

As she said, "It is surprising that a woman can be searched in this manner out in public...this physical, hands-on is a lot". I'd like to think that security searches have been modified so that they aren't this invasive anymore.

Totally sympathize with you Diana! London and Amsterdam airports were the most invasive and rude in handling foregin women . I experienced the same in London in December 1999.

I love Diana because she is real God bless her always

2 years later was 9 - 11 .

THEY NEW SHE WAS COMING AND I TOO WOULD HAVE FELT UNCOMFORTABLE ...INSANE

You can tell that she was really affected by this and she handled herself really well during this interview. The thing that she did towards the security guard was not bad at all, but she was frustrated by how they behaved towards her. I can fully understand Diana´s opinion about this situation.

I love the purple hair!🥰

now a days they have a body scanner at the airport

A superstar got treated like a common person. The horror.

I'm with MISS ROSS 2000 percent.

3:53 “And I really did the same thing to her that she did to me.” Hey, they don’t call her The Boss for nothing!

I didn't like this period...

Her problem back then was she screwed up her marriage to Arne Naess and was moody as hell lookin to be aggressive. Triggered. Then she tried to salvage herself with a Supremes reunion tour to fix the negative press but only to screw that up too when cutting out original Supreme Mary Wilson from the tour. Fans weren't having any of her BS and that tour collapsed and she started drinking.

8:19 Diana is very polite and educated .😊 she could have called queen Elizabeth

Imagine having to be treated like everyone else

She knew exactly who Diana Ross⚘️ was that guard didn't have to treat her like someone breaking the law 😢

Diana Ross said all those years ago the UK Cops were nice to her. If she had not been famous and still black they would or may not have been..😂😂😂 She was right to be upset the way some treat people.

Boo hoo.

She's very controlling of her narrative. Just like Patsy Ramsey.

I felt 'violated' by 'invasive' Airport Security pat down. Don't we all? Sorry Diana, I love you but you are just like the rest of us underneath.

probably wouldn't have gotten arrested if she didn't act like an entitled Karen towards them..

I LOVE YOU DIANA ROSS, I AM ONE OF YOUR FAN'S, OF COURSE YOU DO NOT KNOW ME AT ALL, BUT I AM SO SORRY THAT YOU HAD TO EXPERIENCE WHAT YOU WENT THROUGH. I HEARD YOU SAY, THE FEMALE SECURITY OFFICER HAD NO GLOVES ON SHE HAD NO GLOVES ON, WHICH MEANT SHE TOUCH PRIVATE PARTS IN THE BACK, FRONT AND NEAR THE ORGAN, NO ONE SHOULD COME CLOSE TO TOUCHING, IF THEY ARE DOING A BODY SEARCH AND USING NO GLOVES AT ALL!!!! SHE MIGHT HAVE HAD SOME SEXUAL FANTASIES OF SOME SORT. I COULD NOT HAVE A JOB LIKE THAT, BUT I WOULD RATHER A FEMALE INSTEAD OF A MAN. EITHER WAY SHE SHOULD HAVE BY LAW AND FOR SANITARY REASONS BEEN WEARING GLOVES. THE SECURITY OFFICER MIGHT HAVE SOME SKIN DISEASE!! AND RUBBING SKIN WITH SKIN. THIS IS VERY UNHEALTHY!!! I DO HOPE DIANA ROSS, THAT YOU CAN PUT THIS SITUATION BEHIND YOU, AND I HOPE THAT THIS WILL NEVER HAPPEN TO YOU AGAIN, OR ANYONE. SEARCH IS IMPORTANT, BUT I HOPE THAT IT WILL BE MANDITORY, THAT ALL AIRPORTS WILL USE MORE UP-TO-DATE EQUIPMENT WHEN IT COMES TO SEARCHING US, BEFORE WE GO THROUGH THE CHECK POINTS IN AND OUT OF ALL AIRPORTS FROM NOW ON NATIONWIDE. I HOPE YOU ARE BORN AGAIN DIANA .... JOHN 3:16 FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD, THAT HE GAVE HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON, THAT WHOSOEVER BELIEVE IN HIM, SHALL NOT PERISH, BUT HAVE ETERNAL LIFE. ROMANS 10:9-1O IF YOU CONFESS WITH YOUR MOUTH, THAT JESUS IS LORD, AND BELEIVE IN YOUR THAT GOD HAS RAISED HIM FROM THE DEAD, YOU WILL BE SAVED. MATTHEW 28:17-19-20 THIS SCRIPTURE TELL US ABOUT THE LAST COMMANDMENT, THAT JESUS CHRIST GAVE HIS DISIPLES, BEFORE HE ASCENDED INTO THE HEAVEN. READ IT FOR YOURSELF. HE TOLD HIS DISIPLES TO GO INTO ALL NATIONS BAPTIZING IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER, AND OF THE SON, AND OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. KING JAMES VERSION BIBLE > GIVES US THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST, WHILE HE WAS ON THE EARTH. MATTHEW, MARK, LUKE AND JOHN. LEADING TO HIS DEATH, AND THE FACT THAT HE ROSE FROM THE DEAD ...AND HE IS NOW SEATED IN HEAVEN ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE FATHER. WHO WOULDN'T WANT TO GO TO HEAVEN ONE DAY. AND TO SEE OUR GOD WHO IS A FORGIVER OF SINS WHO SENT HIS SON TO GIVE HIS LIFE AND WHO ROSE THE THIRD DAY, PROVING TO ALL OF US HE IS INDEED THE SON OF THE LIVING GOD, AND JESUS CHRIST IS THE LORD AND LORDS AND THE KING OF KINGS. OUR SALVATION WAS PAID FOR BY CHRIST JESUS, WITH HIS BLOOD. JESUS CHRIST PAID THE PRICE, SO THAT YOU AND I CAN BE SAVED FROM HELL, AND SATANS TEMPATIONS. AND TO LEARN WHO WE ARE, WHOSE WE ARE AND OUR TRUE REASON FOR BEING ...GOD CREATED US FOR HIS GLORY!! NOT MAN!! "PEACE"

I really love Lady Di however gurl you were frightened? In an airport ? Shes so dramatic and nothing less than a DIVA. 😚

I work for one of the busiest airports in the world and everybody has to go through this. What she's describing is exactly what a pat down is. She complained about the same thing years later on Twitter at the New Orleans airport. She thinks the rules don't apply to her.

why I don't fly anymore.

She is a whiner.

Arrogant, entitled and aggressive. We all have to submit to securit measures, but she feels she is special. And we only hear her side of the story.

She was feeling special. Florence probably felt violated.

Wow. Pre 9/11.

#ThatWasWrongOfTheOfficerToAssaultHerLikeThat #IHopeDianaIsOkNow

I agree with her except for the feminist bullshit "not the way to touch a woman in public" a woman NOR A MAN!! Man a human beings too helloo!!!!

yet sleeping around with the music executives isn’t violating..

TO THIS SPECIALTY NEWCASTERS [“RESTLESSRICK”] WHAT “A GMA HOSTESS’ 1999 FEDREACY INTERVIEW WITH DIANA ROSS” AND Y’ALL, “LATEST REPORT VIEWERS, ‘MAY YOUR GRAND CREATOR BLESS’ ALL!!” 😺🌦

I had been thinking years ago out of nowhere, that if Michael Jackson died, people would go nuts, he died the next week. Last week I had been wondering if Carl Weathers had passed after I watched a Rocky movie, he passed the next week, this week. I hope the same thing happens if I ever wonder about Diane Ross.

Can we just talk about how literally there is a purple glow around her? 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹