Towie’s Yazmin Oukhellou reveals she had to break her own arm to escape car crash that killed boyfriend Jake McLean

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claimed the life of Jake McLean.The reality star was rushed to hospital with injuries from the crash earlier in July, with boyfriend McLearn believed to have been driving at the time.They were in Turkey where their Mercedes went over a 70ft cliff – despite the best efforts of emergency services, McLean’s life could not be saved.Yazmin, 28, was pictured after arriving home, wearing a sling as she recovered from the suffered serious injuries to her arm.She has now revealed how she ended up in a sling, as she was forced to break her own arm in a bid to escape the vehicle.Speaking to The Sun, she said: ‘It was lay there and bleed to death, or snap my own arm to try to save us.’Yazmin – who had fallen asleep in the car after a party with friends that night – said it felt like the car was ‘just tumbling for what seemed like forever’, as she felt like she was ‘going round in a washing machine’.‘Then eventually it stopped and my right arm was jammed. ‘The car was upside down.

It had an open sunroof and my right arm was just stuck behind my back and under the folded back of the car roof.‘I tried to honk the horn with my foot and I couldn’t do.’Continuing to recall details of the horrific accident, she said she could feel her arm ‘absolutely covered in blood’, as it felt like she was ‘lying in a hot bath’.Unbeknownst to her at the time, the crash had opened an artery.‘At the same time I was trying to wake up Jake,’ she said.‘In my head I told myself, “Ok, he’s just unconscious, I’m alive so he must be alive”.‘I didn’t want to admit it to myself that he could be dead.’Yazmin felt like she ‘had no choice’ but to snap her arm ‘through pure adrenaline and panic’, so she was able to climb out of the car ‘holding my arm together with my.