Comedian Laura Clery Reveals She Nearly Died After She Was Crushed by 600-Pound Fridge While Home Alone With Her Kids

Comedian Laura Clery has laid bare the "most terrifying night" of her life as a single mother, revealing that she was "nearly killed" when a 600-pound refrigerator fell on her and pinned her against the counter of her kitchen while she was home alone with her children.

Clery, 39, who shares son Alfie, 7, and daughter Poppy, 5, with her ex-husband, Stephen Hilton, opened up about the horrifying incident on Instagram, where she shared several videos of herself being rescued by a team of emergency responders at her home in Los Angeles.

"Most terrifying night of my life as a single mom," she wrote. "I was home alone getting ready for bed when my 600 pound fridge slammed into me and pinned me against the counter. I couldn’t move. Couldn’t breathe right. 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. Thank God my phone was in my pocket and I was able to call 911. Thank god it didn’t fall on my kids. It took three firefighters to lift it off me. I’m still shaking."

In the first of her posts about the accident, Clery could be seen filming herself as she was wheeled out of her home on a gurney, groaning in pain and asking the emergency responders whether she had "broken anything."

"The pain was similar to when I was fully dilated and having contractions I remember being stuck under this massive 600 pound stainless steel fridge saying thinking if I don’t breathe I’m going to lose consciousness," she added in the comments section.

"If that happens, my kids are alone in the home with no one coming, I was meant to take them to school in the morning."

The second clip was filmed inside the ambulance, shortly after Clery had been given pain relief, and shows the comedian wearing a neck brace and with an oxygen tube.

"So I was crushed by a 600-pound fridge, is that correct?" she asks one of the firemen in the ambulance with her.

"This was right after the fentanyl hit and all of my pain [went] away (instantly)," she wrote in her caption. "I just need to say THANK YOU to these AMAZING firefighters who saved my life!! Truly. They got there so fast, broke through my garage door, and three of them pushed a 600 pound fridge off of me and got me safely to the trauma unit before things got worse.

"I keep thinking about how differently this could have gone and I just feel overwhelming gratitude. No broken bones, my kids are okay and safe, I can walk… I’m so lucky! They were calm, kind and just handled everything like absolute heroes!"

Managing to find some humor in the situation, Clery revealed that one of the firemen actually revealed himself to be a fan of her work, even as he was helping to rescue her from under the fridge.

"And then right as one of them pushes the fridge off me, he goes, 'Wait… I watch all of your videos!' and they all start hyping me up like sir… I am currently being flattened but thank you," she joked.

In a post shared on her Patreon account, Clery further opened up about the accident, revealing that she was in her kitchen when her son tried to climb the appliance. She recalled how she saw the fridge "shift slightly, just enough to make my stomach drop."

"I ran over to push it back into place. I thought I'd just nudge it in and move on with my day like a woman who has control over her life," she continued. "The second I pushed it, it came down on me. Not slowly. Not in a way where I could catch it or jump out of the way. It just fell.

"The full weight of it slammed me backward into the kitchen island, pinning my lower back and hips. I couldn't move. I tried to push it off and it didn't even slightly budge. It felt like pushing against a building."

Clery said she quickly realized the severity of the situation, revealing that she thought to herself: "This is the dumbest way anyone has ever died."

She explained that her son, who was recently diagnosed with autism, "ran outside," while her daughter "started crying," noting that this response "snapped" her into "even more of a panic" because she was so terrified that her child might see her die.

Describing the appliance, Clery branded it a "massive French door fridge," adding that it had been mounted into the wall—but suggesting it may have been loosened out of place when her son climbed on top of it.

In a series of comments posted on one of Clery's Instagram posts about the incident, her former spouse, Hilton, added that the only two of the "required eight bolts" that were used to hold the fridge into place had been installed when the appliance was last serviced.

"Whoever serviced the fridge installed two of the required eight bolts to hold it in place," he revealed while responding to a concerned fan. "I’m trying to find out who’s responsible now."

Clery and Hilton separated in 2022—and later revealed in a 2025 episode of the comedian's podcast that their divorce had been prompted by Hilton relapsing in his drug addition battle.

"His relapse wasn’t just a moment; it was a slow, unraveling secret that lived beneath the surface of our marriage," Clery recalled.