Can a full-size fridge tip over and fall on someone because it wasn’t mounted to the wall? According to one woman, it can, it did, and it almost killed her and her child. But not everyone is believing her story. Why? The woman is an influencer with over 14 million Facebook followers who has continued to actively post since the scary incident.
On Thursday, Los Angeles-based social media personality Laura Clery shared a photo on Facebook of her wearing a neck brace in an ambulance, with an EMT seated behind her.
“I want to f—— sue the contractors who installed this fridge,” she began her post on the platform. “This is a nearly 600 pound stainless steel French door fridge that was NOT properly mounted into the wall. Because of that, my 7 year old was able to pull it forward, and when I tried to push it back, it fell on me and was fully crushing me,” she wrote.
Clery added: “It nearly killed me. And it could have absolutely killed my child. This should never have been possible. This was negligence,” she said. Despite the seriousness of her claims, there was very little sympathy for her in the comments section.
Users attempted to poke holes in her story.
One comment that got over 55,000 likes read: “Idk when I almost die my first thought isnt here let me take a selfie.”
Another user simply asked, “Is your kid the hulk?”
A third said, “Never heard of a fridge needing to be mounted.”
Meanwhile, other remarks drew attention to her neck brace. “Hey can you tell the guy in the back the neck brace doesn’t go over you ears and it sits on your shoulder to hold your head in place so neither it nor your neck move. Just saying.”
“Is it just me, or is that C-collar on backwards?” asked another.
Since the incident, Clery has continued to share updates about her recovery on Facebook.
“Feeling so deeply grateful that we’re all okay… and also not okay… I keep getting these flashbacks that just hit out of nowhere,” Clery wrote on Friday. “The second they got the fridge off me, I was just screaming for him,” she said of her son, who was in the backyard.
Clery also noted in that same post that her “body is wrecked,” though “nothing is broken.”
Additionally, she went live to talk about the incident on Patreon both Friday and Saturday. It cost $5 to listen to each conversation.
Commenters continued to offer her little comfort and instead joked about the situation. “WILL SOMEONE TELL ME IF THE FRIDGE IS OK???”
Another said, “This is the funniest thing you’ve ever posted.”
Clery continues to maintain that she is telling the truth.
Before becoming a content creator, the now-39-year-old dabbled in entertainment, appearing in the Fox sitcom “’Til Death” and creating original characters for MTV’s “Disaster Date.” However, in 2016 and 2017, she reached viral internet fame after posting sketch- and character-driven comedy videos across Facebook and YouTube and has since pivoted.
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