Yazmin Oukhellou thought her boyfriend Jake McLean was 'just unconscious' following a car crash in Turkey that killed him.
The TOWIE star has opened up about the horrific ordeal which ended up in her breaking her arm to get out the car and her boyfriend died.
The 28-year-old survived the crash where their car went over a cliff.
Yazmin was forced to break her own arm when trying to escape the car due to being trapped and badly bleeding.
She had fallen asleep in the car as she returned from partying with her friends in Turkey.
She told The Sun : "We were just tumbling for what seemed like forever. It felt like I was going round in a washing machine — just round and round. Then eventually it stopped and my right arm was jammed.
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"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."
Yazmin said she could feel her arm covered in blood due to the crash opening an artery and thought that she had to break her arm or she could bleed to death.
But at the same time she was trying to wake Jake up due to thinking he must just be unconscious due to surviving the traumatic crash herself.
The star said she didn't want to admit that her boyfriend could be dead.
Yazmin described that she ran up the bank from where they crashed and tried to find someone who could help.
She saw a flashlight from a passerby who was walking their dog who then ran over to their aid.
The man took his top off for Yazmin to wrap around her arm but she just wanted them to help Jake.
Yazmin climbed back into the car to check Jake's pulse but she couldn't find one and then the ambulance arrived.
She was told Jake needed to be taken to a different hospital to her but the 33-year-old was declared dead while she was taken to hospital.
Ahead of the crash the couple had spent the night with pals at a club in Bodrum.
Yazmin explained that her and Jake had an on and off relationship for years and ahead of the trip they weren't together but wanted to reconcile.
Yazmin has been told that the fact that she was asleep during the crash could have helped her to survive due to her body being more relaxed.
She has been left with scarring from the ordeal but has said she is grateful to have survived.
Yazmin is now taking time to herself to process what has happened and is taking a break from social media and has changed her mobile number.
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