Irene Bedard, Actress Most Known as the Voice of Pocahontas in the Titular Disney Film, Arrested for Disorderly Conduct

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Actor Irene Bedard was arrested for disorderly conduct, Ohio police have confirmed.

The 55-year-old is best known for voicing the titular character in Disney’s 1995 animated film Pocahontas.

According to a police report obtained by People, two females were arguing when they “walked out into the street screaming, without any regard for traffic”.

After two officers separated the pair, one was identified as Bedard, and the other was identified as Sheila Johnson.

A third officer came on the scene and spoke with Bedard, and the report says: “As [she] spoke, there was a strong odour of an alcoholic beverage on her breath.”

However, she told Ohio police that she had not consumed any alcohol that day. Although, she did disclose that she had consumed a bottle of vodka the day before.

Bedard then explained that Johnson had been trying to help her into her “studio”, but she was unable to locate her keys.

The report described that the actor’s “emotions changed rapidly”. One moment she would be calm before becoming upset and eventually crying.

It added that at some point, she became angry with the officers citing a “previous incident where she said police didn’t help her”.

Police said that Bedard later backed into a large window “as she continued to yell at us” and, out of fear that the glass might shatter, one of the officers grabbed her by the arm to pull her away.

Elsewhere in the report, an incident from earlier that day said police were dispatched to do a welfare check on a woman passed out in the bushes who was wearing the same thing as Bedard at the time of her arrest. Once they arrived, the woman was gone, but a car registered to Bedard was found sitting in the car lot next door.

I hope that Bedard and Johnson get whatever help they need. When Bedard cited the "previous incident where.. police didn't help her", I do not know what that means, but considering historic relations between Native Americans and (disproportionally white) police authorities, that could mean anything. I do not think I should speculate beyond that, so I'll stop there regarding such, because her complaints can possibly be non-racial in nature, but I just don't know.

I hate to see anyone in such a position as she and her associate are in right now. Well wishes to them both.

Voice of Disney’s Pocahontas arrested for disorderly conduct

Police report says Irene Bedard’s breath contained a ‘strong odour of an alcoholic beverage’, however she said she had not consumed anything that day

www.independent.co.uk