Ellie Spence, who appeared on Love Island earlier this year, has opened up about an accident that was almost fatal in an emotional Instagram post.
She wrote about the horrific moment when she was almost fatally wounded by a fence on a night out at the age of 18. Fresh from finishing her A-levels, she was out to celebrate with friends and climbed a gate because her friend couldn't get into her locked door.
Alongside images of her in a bikini on a beach and looking happy, she shared pictures that graphically showed her injuries. She penned a caption that began: "Trigger warning graphic images. "Around this time just before summer when I was 18, I impaled myself on a steel speared gate and almost accidentally killed myself. "I’d just finished my A-level exams and me and one of my best friends Livvy went out on a night out, we got back to her house in the early hours of the morning and the gate in front of her house was locked. "After climbing the gate and reaching the top, I put my foot on the bar in between the spears, my foot slipped and one of the spears impaled me directly in the joint of my leg.
I somehow spun around and found myself hanging backwards off the gate, 10ft in the air." She continued by saying that her friend was an "angel" who saved her life.
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