Kaley Cuoco is getting real about motherhood!
The actress, 38, shared a humorous story about trying to get her 9-month-old daughter Matilda to sleep on her first flight over Thanksgiving during an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Monday.
“I was so terrified,” Cuoco told Kimmel. “So I thought, ‘What should we do? We have to get her sound machine on the plane.’ It’s the only thing he can go to sleep with.”
The star continued: “So she’s crying. It was hard. She finally fell asleep and it’s up to Tom [Pelphrey, Cuoco’s partner and Matilda’s father] and the sound machine was on and finally we were like [sighs].”
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“A flight attendant comes over and says, ‘Hey, one of our passengers would like you to turn off the sound system.’ And I’m sitting there, and I’m like, ‘Oh my God,'” Cuoco recalled.
“And I can feel Tom saying, ‘Hey, ask the passenger if she wants to hold our screaming child when we turn it off.’ And I mean, ice got into his veins.”
“By the way, I couldn’t believe she asked us to turn it off!” the Based on a true story star added.
“That’s so crazy,” replied Kimmel, 56. “And what a terrible job it is to be a flight attendant and have to deliver that kind of message.”
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“We were so angry,” Cuoco said. “Then we landed, and there was a woman in front of us. And so we got up, and she said, ‘Oh, so your daughter can smile.’ ”
“At that moment I understood why women end up Date line,” Cuoco joked to Kimmel.
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The actress added that she “could have thrown that woman off the plane” and shared her compassion for those flying with babies.
“You see all this stuff on social media where people are really, really mad at these babies. That’s right, justice for babies! This is ridiculous… leave them alone!” Cuoco said as the crowd cheered.
Earlier this month, Cuoco shared one of her daughter’s more adorable moments with a sweet snap to ring in the new year. The picture shows a smiling Matilda in a flower-patterned overall with emoticons in the shape of a flower.
Meanwhile, Cuoco opened up to PEOPLE in December about how becoming a mom has made her more in tune with her emotions.
“Tom and I were sitting with Matilda the other day, and she was literally staring at us, and she touched both of our faces, and just gave us this innocent, really joyful, ‘Hi’ smile,” Cuoco said.
“I mean, I could cry right now,” she continued. “We both looked at each other and started crying. He says, ‘Is this our life now, where we’re just crying because of everything she does?’ ”
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