Laura Clery says a 600-pound fridge slammed into her kitchen island and pinned her against the counter while she was home alone with her two young kids, leaving her bruised, sore and saying she “genuinely didn’t know if I was getting out of that alive.”
Clery posted about the accident on May 21 and shared clips showing three firefighters lifting the massive appliance and carrying her out of the house and into an ambulance. She wore a neck brace in the ambulance and said the rescue required the strength of three firefighters.
She described the moment in blunt, repeated lines: “I couldn’t move. Couldn’t breathe right,” and “Was impossible to get off and I could feel myself losing consciousness. My kids were in the house. I genuinely didn’t know if I was getting out of that alive.” Clery said her phone was in her pocket and “Thank God my phone was in my pocket and I was able to call 911.”
The numbers and details underline how close the call was: a 600-pound French-door refrigerator, two young kids in the home, three firefighters required to lift it off her. Clery said a doctor at the hospital was shocked she had not broken any bones; she described feeling like she had been hit by a truck and said she was “bruised, I’m sore, it hurts to walk.”
Context from Clery’s posts makes the accident appear preventable: she said the fridge was a massive French door model that “was supposed to be mounted into the wall” and later called the installation “NOT properly mounted.” On Patreon she said her son climbed on the fridge before it started to shift and that when she tried to push it back into place it “just fell. The full weight of it slammed me backward into the kitchen island, pinning my lower back and hips.”
That mismatch — a heavy appliance meant to be secured, apparently not secured, and a child climbing on it — is the central tension. Clery called it “the most terrifying night” of her life and said the accident “nearly killed me” and that “it could have absolutely killed my child. This should never have been possible. This was negligence.” She said she wants to sue the contractors who installed the fridge because it was “NOT properly mounted.”
Amid the pain and shock she also described an odd moment of relief: “This was right after the fentanyl hit and all of my pain [went] away (instantly),” she wrote, a detail she included in recounting how she became able to make the 911 call that likely saved her life.
Clery thanked the first responders repeatedly: “I just need to say thank you to these amazing firefighters who saved my life!! Truly,” and called the crew who removed the appliance “absolute heroes” and said she is “forever grateful for these men.” She also shared that she is home now, and that while she is “bruised, I’m sore, it hurts to walk,” both she and her children are okay.
Before her social posts about the accident, Clery is known to audiences from television appearances, a background item she mentioned in public materials. Now her public account of May 21 carries two immediate consequences: a close call that underscores safety questions about mounting heavy appliances, and her stated intention to pursue legal action against those who installed the fridge.
Clery’s closing tone on the posts was a mix of relief and outrage. “If my phone hadn’t been in my pocket, I don’t know what would have happened,” she wrote, and then thanked the rescuers who “handled everything like absolute heroes.” She made plain what she intends next: she wants the contractors held responsible, and she made clear how narrowly she and her children escaped a much worse outcome.
