Requests for comment to Watson were not returned at press time, but in her Instagram Stories Watson confirmed that she is the woman in the video, and that it was staged. “friendly reminder that I make *scripted* *staged* *reality* content for the internet for a living and didn’t really nurse a cat on a plane…Merry Christmas, meow,” she wrote in an Instagram story posted on Wednesday. She also posted a screengrab of the Rolling Stone story providing more context about the shoot.
“Sorry to burst anybody[‘s] bubble, but it’s 1000% fake,” she wrote. “That’s not even a real plane. It’s sawed in half sitting on the ground in a Los Angeles Canyon. Oh and p.s. it’s not a cat…..it’s a lynx.”