Below Deck Mediterranean personality Natalya Scudder described the “disgusting” accommodations she experienced while detained in a detention center and deported from the US.
The Australian native — who was a stewardess on seasons 7 and 8 of Below Deck Med — claimed she spent a day in a detention center when she recently tried to land at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). “I basically got pulled from like this main waiting area to the behind-the-scenes of the airport,” Natalya told TMZ.
Officers informed her they’d found photos she’d taken “on American soil” in 2024 and earned money from them. They detained her because she’d “illegally worked on the wrong visa.”
Natalya said she was then taken to a holding room where she found “dirty blankets on the floor.” There were “stains all over the walls.” There was a shower consisting of a “shared loofah” and no towels. Officers told her to dry herself off with her dirty clothes and put them back on. When Natalya asked for a blanket because she was “freezing,” she was told, “This isn’t the Beverly Hills Hotel.”
America was to be her home for “one to five days,” she claimed, but her iPhone was taken. They “went through absolutely everything. Whatever you think’s deleted on your iPhone, it’s not deleted. Every single thing you’ve ever screenshotted, taken a picture of, Googled.”
“It’s really embarrassing just having everyone kind of stare at you and laugh when they come out of this room and gaze over.”
