Comedian Laura Clery has revealed the terrifying moment she nearly died after a 600lb refrigerator fell on her at home. The 39-year-old, who shares two young children with ex-husband Stephen Hilton, was home alone when the appliance 'slammed into' her, pinning her against the kitchen counter.
Emergency Response
Clery took to Instagram to share a video of herself in the back of an ambulance wearing a neck brace, crying out in pain. She wrote: 'Most terrifying night of my life as a single mom. I was home alone getting ready for bed when my 600 pound fridge slammed into me and pinned me against the counter. I couldn't move.'
She continued: 'Couldn't breathe right. Was impossible to get off and I could feel myself losing consciousness. My kids were in the house. 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. Thank god it didn't fall on my kids. It took three firefighters to lift it off me. I'm still shaking.'
How the Accident Happened
In a Patreon post, Clery explained that the fridge fell after her son attempted to climb it. She wrote: 'I saw it shift slightly, just enough to make my stomach drop. So 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. Not slowly. Not in a way where I could catch it or jump out of the way. It just fell. The full weight of it slammed me backward into the kitchen island, pinning my lower back and hips. I couldn't move. I tried to push it off and it didn't even slightly budge. It felt like pushing against a building.'
Struggle for Survival
Clery described the intense pain and fear: 'My breathing started to go. I could feel it getting harder to inhale, like my body was just slowly deciding to shut down. The pain was so intense it almost didn't feel real. Poppy started crying, which honestly snapped me into even more panic because now it wasn't just me, it was them watching this happen. Alfie ran outside, thank God, probably scared out of his mind.'
She admitted thinking while pinned: 'This is the dumbest way anyone has ever died.' Now recovering at home, Clery is grateful to be alive. Her ex-husband Hilton, 52, from whom she had an acrimonious divorce in 2023, wrote on Facebook: 'She literally thought she was dying. Still feeling devastated. Go straight to JAIL, whoever is responsible for this.'
Clery boasts nearly 25 million followers on social media.
