US comedian Laura Clery has described how she almost died when her 600lb fridge fell on her while she was at home with her two young children and found herself pinned under the massive appliance and struggling to breathe.
In an Instagram post on Thursday, Clery said the experience was the “most terrifying night of my life as a single mom”.
Clery said in the post – and in a more extensive account posted to Patreon – that she had spotted her young son, Alfie, seven, climbing on the wall-mounted fridge and seen it shift slightly.
“I ran over to push it back into place. I thought I’d just nudge it in and move on with my day like a woman who has control over her life. The second I pushed it, it came down on me,” she said.
She added: “I couldn’t move. Couldn’t breathe right. Was impossible to get off and I could feel myself losing consciousness.
“I’m just there, pinned under a fridge, thinking this is the dumbest way anyone has ever died.”
Luckily, Clery was able to reach her phone and call for help. “I genuinely didn’t know if I was getting out of that alive. Thank God my phone was in my pocket and I was able to call 911,” she said, adding that it took multiple firefighters to lift the fridge off her.
Clery was immediately taken to hospital.
Clery was once married to British record producer Stephen Hilton, with whom she had two children, Alfie and Poppy, five. She is now back home and recovering from the incident.
