Daryl Hannah has been arrested.

The 48-year-old actress was taking part in a protest against mountaintop coalmining - which sees the tops of mountains blown away to help miners get at deposits inside - during which a West Virginia road was blocked yesterday.

Daryl - who is a long-term environmental activist - and 30 other people blocked traffic by sitting on a stretch of road outside a Massey Energy Company plant, prompting police to intervene.

State Police Sergeant Michael Baylous said: “Tensions were pretty high. But nobody got hurt and we’re pleased with that.”

The protesters were cited for impeding traffic and obstructing an officer and released.

Speaking about the mining practice before she was arrested, Daryl said: “It’s not necessary. If you do it wisely, there are ways to use renewables. It’s realistic for everybody.”

The group had originally planned to stage a protest inside the plant, but miners stopped them from gaining access to the site.

This is not the first time Daryl’s beliefs have got her in trouble with the law.

In 2006, she was arrested after climbing into a walnut tree in an effort to stop an urban garden being destroyed to make way for a warehouse.

Speaking from the tree, Daryl said: “I’m very confident this is the morally right thing to do, to take a principled stand in solidarity with the farmers.”

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Kid Rock, Fergie and Quentin Tarantino Celebrate Birthday “Love” at The Beatles Revolution Lounge inside the Mirage Hotel Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, yesterday.

Also in attendance were Vivica Fox and Daryl Hannah.

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Hollywood actress Daryl Hannah is overjoyed she turned down the role in Pretty Woman made famous by Julia Roberts because she now thinks of it as “degrading for the whole of womankind“. The Kill Bill star declined the part of prostitute Vivian Ward in the 1990 movie - which shot Roberts to fame - because she disliked the tone, as did Meg Ryan and Michelle Pfeiffer.

Hannah says, “One of the things I’m most proud of is refusing to take Julia’s role. Every time I see it I like it less and less. They sold it as a romantic fairytale when in fact it’s a story about a prostitute who becomes a lady by being kept by a rich and powerful man. I think that film is degrading for the whole of womankind.”

Daryl Hannah narrowly avoided being sold as a sex slave in Las Vegas in the late 1970s and is now coming forward with her seedy secret to help others forced into prostitution. The actress, who has joined forces with international human rights groups to help free sex slaves, reveals she was studying theatre in Los Angeles when she leaped at the chance to model for an album cover in Sin City.

The 46-year-old told crime show America’s Most Wanted that she quickly realized the modeling trip was a scam and she was about to be forced into a sex-slave ring. Hannah told show host John Walsh she and another girl escaped out a window and fled back to Los Angeles, but she has always been haunted by the memory of how close she came to becoming forced into prostitution.

And now the environmentalist and humanitarian is using her movie dollars to help those who weren’t so lucky after learning there are more than 14,000 girls smuggled into America annually from Eastern Europe and Asia who become part of secret sex rings. She says, “The more I learn, the more I am moved to take action.”

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Daryl Hannah was among several protestors arrested in Los Angeles’s South Central Urban Garden on Tuesday.

The Kill Bill actress, 45, and about 25 immigrant farmers and their supporters were campaigning to save the 14-acre fruit and vegetable garden from destruction, Reuters reports.

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