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Tara Reid Was Photographed Leaving an Urgent Care Clinic in LA, Months After She Says She Was Drugged at a Hotel Bar

Updated 1 week ago, August 14, 2026

Tara Reid was photographed leaving an urgent care clinic in LA, months after she says she was drugged at a hotel bar.

A single night in an Illinois hotel bar left Tara Reid hospitalized and convinced she was drugged. Police found no evidence of it, and nearly a year later the questions still haven’t gone away.

Blonde woman in a dark zip-up hoodie and ripped jeans holding keys and a phone next to a teal parking meter on a city sidewalk. — Keys in hand, Reid pauses at a parking meter on the street outside the LA urgent care facility, checking her phone as she prepares to leave. Photo by Backgrid.

The photos, shot August 13, mark the first public sighting since a hospitalization she’s tied to a night in Rosemont, Illinois last November. No reason for the visit has been released, and no diagnosis or connection to the earlier episode has been confirmed.

Her account of that night goes like this: she checked into a DoubleTree near O’Hare on November 22, went to the hotel bar around 10:30 p.m., ordered wine, and met a man who called himself “Sean P.” They stepped outside to smoke and traded numbers. When she got back, she says a napkin was covering her drink — one she hadn’t put there. She drank, and the next thing she remembers is waking up in a hospital gown more than 8 hours later, with no memory of the ambulance or how she got there.

Tara Reid at the amfAR Gala Cannes 2026 at the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Cap d'Antibes, France — Tara Reid steps out at the amfAR Gala Cannes 2026, held at the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Cap d’Antibes during the 79th Cannes Film Festival on May 21, 2026. Photo by Thibaud Moritz / AFP via Getty Images.

Rosemont Public Safety pulled the bar surveillance. “At no time did video show anyone tampering with or adding something to her drink,” their statement read. A bartender had covered the glass when she stepped away, which police described as routine. Detectives ran multiple interviews, found no criminal act, and closed the case by late December.

Natasha Lyonne and Tara Reid in a scene from the 1999 film American Pie — Natasha Lyonne and Tara Reid share a scene together in the 1999 film “American Pie.” Photo by Getty Images.

They stopped short of calling her a liar. “We are not saying that [Reid’s] claims are false, however at this time we do not have evidence to support it,” police said, adding they’d reopen the case if new evidence surfaced.

Reid, now 50, has stood by her belief that she was drugged. “No one ends up in the hospital incapacitated for over 8 hours after a drink,” she said, describing it as the scariest feeling she’d ever had and saying she felt judged and bullied over it.

Blonde woman in a black tank top, open dark hoodie, and distressed jeans holding a phone and plastic bag outside an urgent care clinic. — Tara Reid clutches a phone and a plastic bag outside an urgent care clinic in Los Angeles on August 13, 2026, months after the actress said her drink was tampered with at a hotel bar. Photo by Backgrid.

Surveillance reporting from Page Six and others complicated her telling, describing her ordering and drinking several glasses of wine that night — against her account of one drink, or a couple of sips.

She’s since moved on publicly, returning to the red carpet at Cannes in May and filming an indie horror-comedy in Florida over the summer, where she’s said she plans to relocate permanently.

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