‘Sunburned’ New Jersey sisters deny they were drunk after being booted from flight in viral meltdown at Florida airport

The “sunburned” sisters who were kicked off a Frontier flight before they allegedly assaulted an airport employee during a drunken meltdown claim they were not intoxicated and did nothing wrong during an incident that caused the younger sibling to miss her college graduation.

Kiera Lyons and Maura Flores were booted off the New Jersey-bound flight following a three-day trip to Disney World when a flight attendant accused the sisters of being too drunk to fly at Orlando International Airport on May 15.

“I was not drunk getting on the plane.” “I wasn’t drunk either,” both of the sisters told Inside Edition during an interview released Wednesday.

Lyons, a former college field hockey player at Stockton University who suffers from celiac disease, said she was feeling unwell and went to the bathroom before takeoff.

When the then 22-year-old returned to her seat, a flight attendant confronted her and deemed her unable to fly.

“She was like, ‘Have you been drinking?’ I was like ‘yeah, I had a couple of drinks,” and she’s like ‘yeah, you can’t fly,'” the now-23-year-old said. “That’s when I automatically asked for my sister.”

The sisters were accused of shoving one of the gate agents, who was captured lying on the jet bridge floor as the siblings were removed from the flight.

“She pushed me and then turned around and the sister came up and shoved me again, which I tripped over,” the unidentified gate agent told police, according to bodycam footage.

The sisters disputed the story and claimed they never touched the gate agent, who had allegedly fallen on her own.

Several witnesses supported the airport employee’s account and the sisters were arrested, sparking a wild meltdown in the terminal.

“We didn’t know what was going on,” Flores said. “Why are you arresting her? Their answer was ‘she had more witnesses than you.'”

Flores, a 31-year-old mother of two, became erratic as they were being questioned in the terminal and attempted to stop police from handcuffing her younger sister.

“Are you kidding me? Are you kidding me?” Flores cried as officers detained her.

During the arrest, Flores continued screaming and demanding police remove her handcuffs as she was placed in the back of a patrol car.

“Take them off,” she yelled while a police officer held her.

The sisters were charged with battery and disorderly intoxication. They were booked in jail and bonded out two days later.

Lyons’ time behind bars overlapped with the Stockton University graduation on May 16.

“No, I did not. I did not make it to my graduation. I was still in Orange County jail while my friends were walking at graduation,” Lyons said.

“We aren’t these people as we are being made out to be,” the sisters said.

The misdemeanor charges against the sisters were dropped after they completed a pre-trial intervention (PTI) that included community service and a fee payment.