He’s a comedian Laura Clery he recalls a “scary” incident that he says “almost killed him”.
“The scariest night of my life as a single mom,” Clery wrote on Instagram on Friday, May 22. “I was home alone getting ready for bed when my 600 pound refrigerator hit me and pinned me to the counter. I couldn’t move. I couldn’t breathe. It was impossible to get down and I felt like I was losing my kids.
He continued, “I really didn’t know if I was going to get out of that, thank God my phone was in my pocket and I was able to call 911. Thank God it didn’t fall on my children, it took three firefighters to get me out, I’m still shaking.”
Alongside this message, Clery shared a clip showing the comedian being brought into an ambulance and asking paramedics if he was “broken” in the accident. Paramedics explained that they were taking him to a trauma centre.
“As a single mother, my worst fears came true. I was badly injured and trapped while home alone with my two young children. Thank GOD I was able to call 911,” she wrote in the video. “Thank God.”
Clery detailed the incident in a Patreon post, explaining that her son “decided to climb” on the fridge. (Clery shares her two children with her ex-husband Stephen Hilton.)
“I saw it change a little, enough to make my stomach drop,” he wrote. “Then I ran to push it back to its place, I thought I would just move it and go on with my day like a woman in control of her life.
Clery explained that he started having trouble breathing.
“I could feel it getting harder to breathe, as if my body was deciding to shut down little by little,” he wrote. “And I’m just there, pressed under the refrigerator, thinking this is the stupidest way a person has ever died.”
Finally, he called 911 and said it took three firefighters to lift the refrigerator from him. In a Facebook post on Friday, Clery wrote that she “feels so grateful that we are all right and wrong…”
“I keep getting these flashbacks,” she wrote. “It’s like I’m back under this refrigerator, I’m stuck, I can’t even move, my kids are in the house. My brain keeps searching for all the “what ifs” over and over again. What if I fainted. What if it was my son under there. What if he ran out of the house while I was trapped.”
She continued, “When I was taking the refrigerator out the second time, I was crying for her. She was in the back of the house, looking at the glass, scared. But my mind keeps looking at all the ways it could have gone differently. It’s a strange place to be…I feel so grateful and completely shaken at the same time. My body is shattered, broken, numb*, broken back,* broken,* completely numb* miracle.”
Clery went on to wonder if any of her followers had ever tried EMDR therapy for something similar, writing that “just… In another Facebook post, Clery wrote that she wanted to “sue” the contractors who installed her refrigerator.
“This is an almost 600 pound French ABANGANGE stainless steel door refrigerator that DOES NOT mount to the wall,” he wrote. “As a result, my 7-year-old was able to pull it forward, and when I tried to pull it back, it fell on top of me and crushed me completely. It almost killed me. And it could have completely killed my child. This should never have happened. This was reckless.”
