Ellen Feiss
Ellen Feiss (born 1987/1988) is an American who became an Internet phenomenon after her 2002 Errol Morris-directed television commercial for Apple's Switch campaign grew into a cult hit. In the commercial, the then-14-year-oldhigh school student complained that while using a Windows PC to author a paper, the computer experienced a glitch causing half of the paper to become unexpectedly deleted. Subsequently, she was forced to retype the deleted portions.
Fueling the popularity of the advertisement was the speculation that Feiss was under the influence of illicit drugs during the filming of the commercial, due to her slurred speech and disoriented eyes. Feiss denied these claims in an interview with The Brown Daily Herald and noted that she was only taking Benadryl, an allergy medication with sedative properties. She ascribed the "drugged" behavior to a combination of the effect of the Benadryl, together with exhaustion (she said that her ad was filmed at ten o'clock in the evening). She also explained how she had come to appear in the commercial:
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