The man who posted a video of himself confronting a woman who ‘stole’ his phone charger during a flight has admitted he made the video out of a desire to go viral.
In the popular footage seen by millions online, Eddie Orellano shoves his camera in the female passenger’s face and demands his ‘stolen’ charger be returned to him.
They were on a JetBlue flight when it was delayed. Passengers were told to disembark and Orellano left his charger on his seat.
The woman – who gave her name to DailyMail.com as Vanessa – picked it up and offered to hand it to the flight attendant.
When they refused to take it, she held on to it before returning to the plane for takeoff. That’s when Orellano confronted her and accused her of theft.
Orellano waited almost a year before uploading his exchange to TikTok.
And in an interview with Inside edition On Thursday he admitted that he only posted it in the hope of becoming internet famous.
“So I said, ‘I’m going to put her on video,'” he continued, adding that he distrusted her because she gave him “negative energy from the start.”
The reporter said to him: ‘I gotta be honest, man. It seems like you’re trying to make a viral video.”
He answered honestly, “Yes, and you’re probably right.”
Vanessa described her shocked reaction when Orellano approached her with his camera rolling.
“He didn’t give anyone a chance to even say anything,” she said. “He kept coming at me like, ‘You stole it, why did you steal it, you stole my charger.’
Vanessa said all that really happened was she grabbed the charger “off the ground” as passengers were told to take their belongings with them.
Eddie Orellano admitted he caused a scene and ‘tried to make a viral video’
In the original video Orellano shared online, he claimed he left the Apple iPhone charger in his seat when the pilot allowed passengers to disembark to stretch their legs due to delays.
Vanessa said Orellano was “definitely trying to cause a scene” when he made the video.
“Looks like this worked out well for him since he just sold the video and can hopefully buy some chargers,” she said with a grin.
Vanessa revealed that she had received death threats after the clip was posted.
“This charger was found on the floor of an empty flight where we were told to remove all belongings because we didn’t know if we would get on the same flight again due to technical issues,” she said.
Vanessa spoke to DailyMail.com earlier this week and insisted she had done nothing wrong
Vanessa said she was sitting in the back of the plane, so she was one of the last passengers to get off. She claims she grabbed the charger from the floor under an empty seat in front of her and tried to hand it to the crew.
“I told the flight attendant, but she wouldn’t accept it because they can’t be held responsible for passengers’ belongings,” she said.
While the first video suggested that Vanessa was a thief who disconnected the charger from the chair and tried to put it in her bag, she insists that there was “no stealth” and that she was in fact very close to the people around her made it clear what she was doing. was doing.
“I picked it up off the ground,” she said. ‘From the ground. I didn’t unplug it.’
Vanessa said the vile outpouring of hatred towards her prompted her to share her side of the story.
“Many of you are quick to believe that I’m some kind of bad guy sitting over a phone charger on the floor of an empty flight that I tried to hand to the crew,” she said.
‘This man shouts in my face as soon as I came on board, obviously I didn’t greet him with a smile.’
In the original video Orellano shared online, he claimed he left the Apple iPhone charger in his seat when the pilot allowed passengers to disembark to stretch their legs due to delays.
He said a fellow passenger told him that a blonde woman had unplugged the charger, rolled it up and put it in her bag, prompting him to angrily confront her as they boarded again.
