This is one of the best kind of “don’t you know who I think I am?” kind of stories.

Late yesterday afternoon, Gawker posted a story from a reader who was on the same flight from New York to LA as Minka Kelly (Friday Night Lights, Derek Jeter of the New York Yankees main squeeze).  

Apparently, Minka had an epic meltdown prior to take-off because they wouldn’t let her dog sit beside her on the seat. (It’s a standard rule dogs under 20lbs can fly in the cabin but must be under the seats during take-off/landing and then only if there’s room). 

According to the tipster, Minka got on her cell phone to call Jeter, then passed the phone to the pilot to speak to him directly. It took several flight attendents to eventually calm her down.  Word is crisis was averted when a passenger in coach switched spots Minka.

After the report surfaced, Inside Edition showed up at LAX to wait for the starlet, while her lawyer Marty Singer, slammed Gawker, saying Minka never freaked out or called Derek Jeter, and that it was her management she contacted as they made the travel arrangements, with the understanding the dog was to travel first class with her. 

Riiiiiiiiiiiight.

Because the first thing you do when an false story about your bitchy sense of entitlement (the stuff of legend on the set of Friday Night Lights) makes the rounds is to get your high end pit-bull of a lawyer involved.

And people wonder why Derek Jeter is having such a bad season.

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