The flight from hell! Octomom Nadya Suleman has plane row with actress Kristen Johnston over her 12 noisy children



Being stuck near Octomom and her brood on a plane would be many travellers' idea of hell.



But that's exactly what happened to unlucky actress Kristen Johnston yesterday when she found herself in close proximity to Nadya Suleman and 12 of her children on a flight to Los Angeles from New York.



According to TMZ, the star, most famous for her role as Sally Solomon on comedy 3rd Rock From The Sun, got so fed up with Suleman's loud brood that she asked her to keep the noise down.

Plane fight: Octomom Nadya Suleman, seen leaving New York City with her children yesterday, got into a row on her flight from New York to Los Angeles with 3rd Rock From The Sun star Kristen Johnston

Too much noise: Actress Kristen Johnston is said to have told Octomom to quiet things down

But apparently, the mother-of-14 did not take too kindly to Johnston's comments, telling her: 'How would you like me to keep eight two-year-olds quiet?'

To which the actress allegedly responded: 'Get more help!'

Suleman's representative told TMZ that she shouted back: 'Why don't you grow a baby and get a life.'

Suleman and her brood, including the eight octuplets who appeared on The Today Show yesterday , took up most of the business class section of the plane, which was delayed for two hours.

TMZ interviewed Octomom after she landed in Los Angeles where she commented on the row saying: 'I guess there's some people that don't like kids.'



A representative for Suleman told E! that the 'altercation' occurred when Johnston allegedly left her seat in First Class to tell the famous mother to keep her children quiet.



'While Nadya had help from her friend and two older children, it's not easy to travel with one two-year-old, let alone eight two-year-olds on a plane,' said the spokesmen.



'She did the best anyone could.'





Heading home: Octomom shepherds her brood across New York as she walks behind her oldest daughter Amerah and leaves in a people carrier with octuplet Josiah

Suleman and her brood were returning from a memorable appearance on The Today Show where she appeared with the octuplets and her oldest daughter Amerah while being interviewed by host Ann Curry.



Calm and collected host Curry got more than she bargained for when the children ran riot in the studio.

The children, aged two-and-a-half, continually ran backstage, with one crawling under Curry's chair while she tried in vain to conduct an interview with 34-year-old Suleman.



There was a point during the interview where one of Suleman's sons fell over the barrier at the side of the studio, forcing Curry to intervene.

Meanwhile, one cheeky member of Suleman's brood took over fellow host Matt Lauer's seat, leaving co-host Natalie Morales to entertain him.



Running riot: Host Ann Curry attempts to interview Octomom Nadya Suleman on The Today Show this morning but as eight of the famous mother run around on the set and cause chaos



Earnest: Octomom maintained that she receives no help from the state despite the huge coast of supporting her brood of 14

The children ran off so much that Suleman regularly had to keep a head count of the eight children who appeared alongside her eldest daughter Amerah, nine, on the show.

Although she didn't get paid for the interview, Suleman told Curry she is now making money for appearances and personal training under new management.

'But that's peanuts to what it takes to support all these kids every month,' she admitted.

However, the mother-of-14, whose other five children were not in the studio this morning, denied she had ever received financial assistance from the state.

'I've never in my life been on (public assistance), and I never would,' she said. 'I would feel like a failure as a mother and as a human being.'

He's escaped! Suleman and her nine-year-old daughter Amerah are forced to chase after one of the children as he escapes backstage

Octomom is said to need $15,000 a month to make ends meet. However, she told Curry that she takes her mind of the pressures of her big brood through exercise, revealing she manages to find time to run the equivalent of 40 miles a week.

'That's been my way to self-medicate, through exercise,' she said. 'Unfortunately, as a result of hundreds of death threats that I started to receive over two years ago, directed towards me and my kids, it started to boil and bubble into panic attacks. 'I didn't want to leave the house. I'd go to the market, and I couldn't leave the car.'

Action stations! Octomom tries to keep order as Curry and her producers and co-hosts try to keep her brood in check and under control on the live show



Whoops! Curry is forced to intervene as one child goes toppling over the edge of the studio floor Suleman, who says she is writing a book that deals with her 'self-reflection and introspection' about her unique situation, told Curry she doesn't worry too much about her choice to have so many children, despite the consequences.

'I have to teach them to accept it, learn, grow as a result of your choices, own and accept the responsibility of the consequences of your choices and move forward because if you just look back, what are you going to do, stagnate?' she said. Curry then asked Suleman if she felt guilty about not being able to give her children as much individual attention as she would like. 'I personally cannot waste my energy just fixating on the past and my past choices, regardless if they were good or bad choices because how is that advantageous to them?' she said. 'What am I teaching them?'



Entertain me: One of Suleman's two-and-a-half-year-old brood takes over Matt Lauer's seat where he played with host Natalie Morales



Maliyah, Jonah, Makai, Isaiah, Noah, Josiah, Jeremiah, and Nariyah are only the second set of surviving octuplets in the United States.

Suleman also dismissed as 'slander' a recent report in In Touch magazine that reported she 'hated' babies.

The magazine reported she said: 'They disgust me. My older kids are animals. I can’t discipline them.'

She added that she is contemplating suing the American magazine.

'I think they should retract it,' she said. 'Because it's slander, all of it. I love my children. I live for my kids.'

Keeping control: Holding one toddler on her lap, Curry finally manages to finish the ten minute interview with Octomom, despite the challenges

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