A KANSAS City woman has claimed she was forced to pee in a cup aboard a United Airlines flight.

Nicole Harper said flight attendants on board the flight from Houston told her she couldn’t leave her seat until the captain turned off the ‘fasten seatbelt’ sign April 10 — one day after Dr. David Dao was forcibly dragged off a different United flight.

“After explaining that I have an overactive bladder and would either need to use the rest room or pee in a cup, I was handed a cup by flight attendants,” Ms Harper wrote in an extensive Facebook post.

The mother of two initially tried using the bathroom on Flight 6056 but was ordered back to her seat, she told KSHB.

“I said, ‘I’m going to need to use the rest room or I’m going to need a cup.’ They handed me the cup which was about this big and I was like, ‘I’m going to need a second cup,’” Ms Harper said.

“I don’t know if they just didn’t understand that I don’t have any control over the situation.”

But the embarrassing situation only got worse, Ms Harper, who is a nurse, claimed.

She was then escorted to the bathroom as the attendants shamed her “down the aisle while other passengers overlooked.”

“The flight attendants treated me like I had committed a crime, stating they would be filing a report, calling in the hazmat team to clean the entire row (let me mention there was no mess involved) and told me I would need to talk with the pilot after the flight!” she wrote on Facebook.

Ms Harper said she immediately filed a complaint with the airline and expected an apology but never received a response.

“As an emergency room nurse, I completely understand having a bad day on the job and having to deal with undesirable bodily fluids,” she wrote in the post.

“What I don’t understand is ZERO customer service, if I treated a patient this poorly I would surely have consequences.”

In a statement released to KSHB, United explained that Ms Harper tried using the bathroom “on final descent and was instructed to remain seated with the seat belt fastened per FAA [Federal Aviation Administration] regulations.”

“The situation as described by Ms Harper and our employees is upsetting for all involved,” the statement said.

“We have reached out to Ms. Harper and our flying partner Mesa Airlines to better understand what occurred.”

But in a follow up Facebook post, Ms Harper said the airline lied.

“United Airlines lied about reaching out to me, I attempted to reach them multiple times over the past two weeks and was repetitively told customer service would not take my call,” she wrote.

“They also lied about the incident happening during the descent. This all happened mid flight, while flight attendants were providing drink service.”

She claimed the airline only contacted her after her story was reported on in the media.

This article originally appeared in the New York Post and was republished with permission.