Actress Winona Ryder was briefly hospitalized after falling ill on a flight to London’s Heathrow Airport Wednesday, her publicist said. Mara Buxbaum said the 37-year-old was taken to a west London hospital Wednesday “as a precaution” and had since been released.

“She’s fine now,” Buxbaum said. She declined to go into details of Ryder’s illness.

Hmmm...sounds like we are entering the spin zone. "Falling ill" is PR talk for something else.

British Airways said a flight from Los Angeles to Heathrow requested priority landing after a female passenger “required medical attention” and was taken to a local hospital for treatment.

Ryder has mostly stayed out of the headlines after her 2002 conviction for stealing several thousand dollars worth of merchandise from a Saks Fifth Avenue store in Beverly Hills. She had prescription drugs in her possession when she was arrested — but a drug charge was dropped after a doctor said he had prescribed the medication.

Maybe she popped a Xanax before boarding her flight. Any thoughts?