Telling her traumatic brush with death, the 25-year-old Australian wrote on Instagram:
"Why are we going straight down?"
"The ground is getting closer and the parachute is below me."
"We're falling so fast and the ground is right there."
"Holy s***. I'm about to die. I'm actually going to die. I wonder what being dead feels like. The ground is right there. This is the last thing I'll ever see."
"I felt us slow down a little bit but the chute wasn't above us where it should be and my instructor wasn't answering me. The closer we got to the ground, I realised something was really wrong."
She spent four months in the hospital with broken neck, sacrum, pelvis and jaw, and shattered teeth and was told by doctors would never walk again because she was paralyzed from the waist down.
"I got home from hospital and realised that every single aspect of my old life had changed. I could no longer walk around the house I used to live in, some of the friends I used to have weren’t there for me, I wheeled past the streets where I used to run, I couldn’t go back to work: every part of my life had changed and I had to find a way to be OK with that"
She told her fans:
"My broken heart became my greatest strength, my paralysed legs learnt to walk again and the worst moment of my life, became the best thing that could have ever happened to me."
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