Laura Clery is on the road to recovery. The comedian shared her experience of recovering from the traumatic incident where a 600-pound refrigerator fell on her while she was at home with her children, Alfie, 7, and Poppy, 5, and her ex-husband Stephen Hilton. "The most terrifying night of my life as a single mom," Laura captioned her March 21 Instagram post. "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. I couldn't breathe properly. It was impossible to get off."
"I could feel myself losing consciousness," she continued. "I genuinely didn't know if I was going to survive that night. 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."
In a follow-up video of herself in the ambulance, she shared insight into the rescue. "They arrived so quickly, broke through my garage door, and three of them pushed a 600-pound fridge off of me and got me safely to the trauma unit before things got worse," she captioned the May 23 post. "No broken bones, my kids are okay and safe, I can walk... I'm so lucky!"
As for what led to the terrifying incident, her son—whom she previously shared was diagnosed with autism—climbed the home appliance. "I saw it shift slightly, just enough to make my stomach drop," Laura wrote in a May 21 Patreon post. "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," she continued. "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."
As she experienced the excruciating pain, she recalled the thoughts running through her mind. "Very quickly, I realized, 'Oh, this is actually bad,'" she wrote. "Like, not 'this will be a funny story later' bad. This is 'I might genuinely be in danger right now' bad. I'm just there, pinned under a fridge, thinking this is the dumbest way anyone has ever died."
