Kaley Cuoco’s Nightmare Flight With Her Infant Can Teach Us All A Thing Or Two

In an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Monday night, actor Kaley Cuoco shared the story of her 9-month-old daughter Matilda’s memorable first airplane flight, which occurred over Thanksgiving.

Like most parents, Cuoco and her partner, Tom Pelphrey, were anxious about how their daughter would handle the plane ride. No one wants to be the parent of the baby that spent the whole flight screaming.

“I was so terrified,” Cuoco told Kimmel. “I thought, ‘What do we do?’ We have to bring her sound machine on the plane. It’s the only thing she’ll go to sleep to.”

At this point, Kimmel pointed out that an airplane basically functions as a giant sound machine, and Cuoco admitted that it was difficult to hear the machine at all over the plane’s background noise.

Cuoco and Pelphrey did turn on the machine when their daughter began crying, holding it up to her ear so that the noise could have its intended effect and soothe her to sleep.

Unfortunately, another passenger was able to hear the sound machine, too.

Initially, the parents were relieved that their plan worked. “She’s crying, we put the sound machine on. It was hard. She finally falls asleep and she’s on Tom and the sound machine is on and we’re finally like —” here Cuoco gave a dramatic sigh, closed her eyes and let her body go limp.

Their relief was short-lived, however, because a flight attendant soon approached them and said, “One of our passengers would love it if you could turn the sound machine off,” Cuoco recounted.

“I can hear Tom be like, ‘Ask the passenger if she wants to hold our screaming child,’” Cuoco said. “The ice went into his veins.”

By the time the plane landed, baby Matilda was awake and happy, and the requester made her identity known.

“It was the woman