Bed Judd ‘nearly died' after parachute failed to open
The model on Friday told SAFM Breakfast with Bernie and Emma G that the terrifying incident happened while she was on a date with the former AFL star.
She said she free-fell 'almost all the way to the ground' before an emergency parachute could be activated.
At the time, Judd wasn't even allowed to go skydiving, given his contract with the West Coast Eagles at the time.
'We secretly went and did a skydive together in Perth when he was playing for West Coast and my parachute didn't open,' she revealed during the radio show's unbelievably true stories segment.
'Juddy jumped out, felt the parachute, and he's all good.
'So we're strapped to someone, I jump out, we're falling through the sky. [my tandem guy] pulled the parachute, and the parachute opened and tore off. It ripped off and went flying through the sky, and we started falling to the ground again.
'Chris is watching, and we'd only been dating for a couple of months, and his tandem guy, who he was strapped to, went, 'oh there goes your friend', and we started dropping to the ground, and he went, this is where it ends.
'And then, luckily, just before we got to the ground, he [tandem guy] found the little emergency parachute. Little thing, a dinky little kind of BS emergency parachute opened and saved us, and we landed pretty quickly after that.
'So my free fall, you know, that's all you get, 60 seconds of free fall, whatever, I pretty much free fell almost all the way to the ground…and Chris just said he just saw us just go boom, all the way down landing. I jumped after him, but I think I ended up landing about five minutes before him. Thank God the emergency parachute worked.' 'Thank God the emergency parachute worked.' Credit: Supplied.
Bec's Vain-ish podcast co-host Jessie Roberts also shared her unbelievably true story, when her child was almost abducted from a car in Naples a decade ago.
'My daughter got kidnapped out of the taxi while we were parked going into the train station, getting our stuff out of the boot,' she said.
'I was actually in the car with my daughter. She was in the seat belt, and a guy reached in and pulled her from her seat belt and started running…she was nearly five, and I was screaming, I was trapped in the car, so I was screaming, but luckily, the bus driver behind us saw it all unfold, and he was on the horn to kind of warn us that this guy was kind of coming towards the car.
'Next minute, there were people jumping off the bus. There was my husband, me with a baby strapped to me, racing after this guy. We jumped on top of him, tackled him.'
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