A college student convicted of stabbing a blind date says that thought she was Selma Hayek’s character in “From Dusk Till Dawn” at the time and bbelieved she was in an episode of Claire Danes’ “Homeland” when she told authorities was retaliation for a US drone strike that killed an Iranian military commander.

Nika Nikoubin, 23, has schizophrenia and bipolar disorder and was sentenced to three years probation for stabbing the date, Daniel Trevino, during a tryst at a Las Vegas hotel March 5, 2022.

“I was in a very manic state of mind,” Nikoubin told The New York Post.

“I essentially looked in the mirror and I thought, ‘This actress is hot,’ thinking I’m Salma Hayek from the ‘Dusk Till Dawn’ movie, and I was hallucinating there was a snake around my shoulders,” she added, referring to one of Hayak’s scenes in the 1996 film.

Nikoubin was quickly taken into custody after the stabbing, but by the time she got to the police station, she wasn’t Selma Hayak any longer.

“I was so far gone that even when I had handcuffs around me, I was still thinking I was a character. I thought I was going to have a custody scene … like a scene shot in jail,” she said.

“When I was being interviewed I thought I was a TV character. I thought I was Carrie [Danes’s character] from ‘Homeland’ and I was imagining a camera behind me recording all these scenes.”

That’s when she told detectives she stabbed Trevino out of “spite and revenge” for the US drone strike that killed Qasem Soleimani. She said she had moved to Las Vegas and “threw away all my medication.”

“I was hallucinating. I had so many delusions. I was on alcohol. I wasn’t doing what my parents taught me to do. Couple all that together, I had a manic episode. Schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. These all prior to my arrest.”

Nikoubin, who moved to the United States from Iran when she was 12, pleaded guilty to two counts of false imprisonment withtheuse of a deadly weapon.

In court, she apologized to Trevino but refused to answer the Post’s questions about him. Trevino said in court that he had forgiven her and that the legal ramifications were “up to the law.” He did not respond to the Post’s request for comment.

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[Featured image: Nika Nikoubin/Henderson Police Department]