She had bought them to eat in Saudi Arabia after running out of time to enjoy any during her holiday in Malaysia, she wrote in a Threads post reported by Malaysian news outlet mStar on July 5.
"That's why I thought, it's okay, I'll just bring it to eat in Saudi. It ended up not passing the flight. I couldn't hold back my tears, they just flowed... it was heartbreaking," she wrote.
She had packed fewer than 20 pulps, the fleshy segments around each seed, into her checked luggage.
She claimed that she had carried durian home the same way on earlier trips without trouble.
Commenters offered little sympathy, telling her that durian rules run entirely on the airline and the route and that getting the fruit through before was luck rather than permission.
