Nguyen said that they and their wife, who was a flight attendant for Spirit, were flying standby and seated on a Spirit flight heading to Dallas Fort Worth International Airport when a complaint-resolution official boarded the flight and escorted the pair off the plane and onto the jet bridge. .
Nguyen said they posted on TikTok with the hope of bringing awareness to how some people with physical skin conditions are being treated during the monkeypox outbreak. Nguyen said Spirit Airlines had not reached out to them about the incident, and a day after posting their video on TikTok, their wife was released from her positionInsider recently reported on a woman whose benign skin tumors were mistaken for monkeypox in a TikTok video that was filmed without her consent, and commenters on Nguyen's TikTok video said they were fearful of something similar happening to them