SHOCKING footage shows the moment a ring girl smashed her face open after jumping off her boss’ roof into a pool at a work party.
Lorna Joyce attended the gathering at the house and decided to take the plunge into the pool after having a few glasses of wine.
Kennedy NewsLorna Joyce said she tried to ‘show off’ at her boss’s house party with a stunt[/caption]
Kennedy NewsShe jumped off the roof on an inflatable dolphin after drinking[/caption]
Kennedy NewsBut the pressure from the inflatable hitting the water was like her face was ‘slammed against concrete’[/caption]
Kennedy NewsShe smashed her face open and was left with injuries that needed urgent treatment[/caption]
But on her fourth attempt to “show off”, Lorna carried an inflatable dolphin up the roof and straddled it as she jumped off.
Shocking footage shows the 33-year-old running to the end of the roof holding the dolphin and jumping off, before slamming into the water hard.
Lorna said the pressure from the inflatable hitting the water caused her face to feel like it was slammed against concrete.
She came to the surface and was horrified to see a puddle of blood in the pool and soon realised the inside of her lip had split open.
The boxing match ring girl – who had only just recovered from another facial injury two years prior – admitted she feared the fall had damaged the lip filler she had gotten to fix her previous injury.
By the end of the party, Lorna said her face had swelled up so much she looked like the “elephant man” and was taken to hospital by her mum.
And Lorna says she was mortified to find herself the “talk of the office” thanks to her “idiotic” stunt.
Lorna, from Epsom, Surrey, said: “I was at my boss’s house having a work party and I started jumping off the roof by myself, without the dolphin, and everyone started trying it.
“I thought I’d take it one step further so I ran through the house with a dolphin under my arm, a glass of wine in the other.
“I do stupid things like that, it’s in my nature. I just had to show off, I like to do fun things but it wasn’t my best idea.”
She continued: “As I jumped off, I straddled the dolphin but the pressure of the dolphin against the water pushing up was like a wall in between the water and me.
Kennedy NewsLorna said she was lucky she didn’t suffer any serious injuries[/caption]
Kennedy NewsLorna on the roof just moments before[/caption]
Kennedy NewsThankfully Lorna had no lasting injuries[/caption]
“I might as well have hit the side of the swimming pool.
“I remember a lot of water going into my head and I don’t know if I was out of it for a second or not.
“Everyone was asking if I’m okay. I said I was fine when all I wanted was to scream and cry, I looked down and I saw there was a puddle of blood.
“There was blood in my hands and I remember screaming. I didn’t regret it until I saw the impact it had on my face, I might as well have gotten someone to slam my head on the pavement.
“I had a facial injury prior to that, when someone threw a phone and it burst open my lip. I had to get lip filler, I had just recovered.
“It was excruciating. My initial thought was that it’s going to undo all the work I had done.
“I made an absolute tw*t of myself at the time. I wasn’t thinking about the pain or the embarrassment, the shock took the pain away. That came on later.
“Blood was coming out my lip, my nose, my tongue, I don’t know how I didn’t lose teeth.
“I was lucky, it was more like surface damage. My nose wasn’t broken, I don’t know how.
“By the end of the party my face had swelled up, I looked like the elephant man. It started to bruise as well and I started to get a black eye. I called my mum and she took me to hospital.
Lorna had an X-ray and was given painkillers but was then released as her injuries were only surface-level.
The 33-year-old added: “It was a head injury so they had to make sure I was okay. I was fine, there were no breaks, just quite a bash on the face. They said it was one of the most interesting cases in A&E.”
‘EXTREMELY LUCKY’
She aims to raise awareness to prevent others from making the same mistake as her and admits she was lucky not to get any serious injuries.
Lorna said: “My top lip curled up, it ripped the inside of my lip. Once the bruising and swelling was gone, I was fine.
“I was extremely lucky. I’ll think better next time before doing something idiotic.”
She added: “I was thinking about how I look, it sounds shallow but I just spent all that money getting my face back to normal.
“That was my first concern, it took away all the pain, but the amount of blood was a lot.
“It is scary that I didn’t see any danger in that. I put it up [online] for awareness, I don’t want anyone else to do that.”
Kennedy NewsHer afternoon came to a sorry end after the stunt[/caption]
Kennedy NewsShe regrets the ordeal and wants others to know the dangers[/caption] Published: [#item_custom_pubDate]
