Who wouldn’t dream of being Salma Hayek and especially Salma Hayek in “One Night in Hell”? Between fiction and reality, it seems that there is only one step for this young American…
During a blind date in a hotel, Nika Nikoubin, 23, was found guilty of stabbing her partner while having sex. She told the New York Post (via Yahoo) that she thought she was Salma Hayek’s character in One Night in Hell, Robert Rodriguez’s 1996 film starring George Clooney and Quentin Tarantino.
The Texas student, who reportedly suffers from schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, detailed her state of mind weeks after a judge sentenced her to three years of probation for stabbing her “blind date” in the neck.
I was in a very manic state of mind. I looked in the mirror and thought, ‘This actress is sexy,’ thinking I was Salma Hayek from the movie One Night in Hell, and I was hallucinating there was a snake around my shoulders .
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SHE ALSO THOUGHT SHE WAS IN HOMELAND
Although her motive was initially to seek revenge for an American drone strike that killed an Iranian commander, Nika Nikoubin now insists that she was hallucinating in the middle of the attack and that she only mentioned this reason because she thought she was starring in an episode of the series Homeland at the time she was interviewed.
“I was so far gone that even when I had handcuffs around me, I still thought I was a character. I thought I was going to have a police custody scene… like a prison scene. When I was interviewed, I thought I was a TV character. I thought I was Carrie [Claire Danes] from Homeland and I imagined a camera behind me recording all these scenes.”
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Nika Nikoubin, who claims she was no longer taking medication at the time, said she realized what she had done until six weeks later, while she was locked in a prison cell.
During the trial, her lawyer referred to a psychotic episode due to the young woman’s mental health, who told the judge that she had been raped when she was 18 and did not realize how badly her mental health had deteriorated. deteriorated since. She apologized to the victim who said he had forgiven her.
After pleading guilty, the judge sentenced Nika Nikoubin to probation and house arrest, citing her mental health issues as a reason to avoid jail.