{"id":30026,"date":"2017-02-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/mem-fox-tells-leon-byner-about-her-us-nightmare\/"},"modified":"2017-02-28T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T00:00:00","slug":"mem-fox-tells-leon-byner-about-her-us-nightmare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/mem-fox-tells-leon-byner-about-her-us-nightmare\/","title":{"rendered":"Mem Fox tells Leon Byner about her US nightmare"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Cherished Aussie children\u2019s author Mem Fox says she was humiliated when she was detained in the USA.<\/h3>\n<p>Mem told Leon Byner she was pulled aside when her digital picture failed to take at LA airport.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey took me into the holding room where there were a whole lot of other people. It was watching those other people being interviewed that terrified me first\u2026 I was so scared by the way the other people were being interviewed. The whole thing was public,\u201d Mem said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy heart was beating so fast I had to put the heel of my right hand onto my heart to try and stop my heart beating.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>LISTEN HERE:<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"no\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/309706262&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Mem said she was \u201cinterviewed with aggression, insolence, gratuitous impoliteness, I was humiliated, I was degraded\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd finally do you know what the guy said at the end? He came back and he said, \u2018Oh, I see one of your books was given to Prince George\u2026\u2019 he held out his hand and he said it\u2019s been a pleasure to meet you Ms Fox. I could have killed him. And I was let go because there was nothing wrong.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was just a normal person. I wasn\u2019t Mem Fox the writer &#8212; they didn\u2019t know that until the end of the interview.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was traumatised and I use the word trauma very carefully\u2026 I was traumatised.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>MOST POPULAR<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/adelaide-crow-cam-ellis-yolmen-out-for-the-year\"><strong>TERRIBLE NEWS FOR THE ADELAIDE CROWS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/bom-releases-surprising-autumn-forecast\"><strong>BOM RELEASES SURPRISING AUTUMN FORECAST<\/strong><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cherished Aussie children\u2019s author Mem Fox says she was humiliated when she was detained in the USA. Mem told Leon Byner she was pulled aside when her digital picture failed to take at LA airport. \u201cThey took me into the holding room where there were a whole lot of other people. It was watching those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":15835,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[249,231],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-30026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-leon-byner","category-show"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mem Fox tells Leon Byner about her US nightmare - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/mem-fox-tells-leon-byner-about-her-us-nightmare\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mem Fox tells Leon Byner about her US nightmare\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Cherished Aussie children\u2019s author Mem Fox says she was humiliated when she was detained in the USA. 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