Just months after mother’s death, Dominique Elissa reveals own near-death experience

Just three months after her mother’s untimely death, fitness influencer Dominique Elissa has had a near-death experience.

Just three months after her mother’s untimely death, Dominique Elissa has had a near-death experience.

Elissa’s mother, Odile Faludi, passed away in March, just weeks after Elissa’s wedding to fiance Tom Bull.

Now she has revealed she almost died last week.

The fitness influencer took to Instagram to reveal she was moments away from getting in a sauna which ended up exploding and burning to the ground.

“I had the most crazy, traumatising, near-death experience the other night,” Elissa said.

“I was away, 30 minutes out of Byron, at an Air BNB and I put the sauna on.

Australian model Dominique Elissa and Tom Bull held their wedding ceremony in a hospital to be with her mother, Odile Faludi (front), who passed away just weeks later. Picture: Instagram

“I was in it the night before and I thought I will just cook dinner quickly, then go in for 40 minutes, because that’s what you do for a lot of saunas is you let them heat up.

“I was in the middle of nowhere. There is not a neighbour for 200m. No reception. Then I finish eating dinner and I’m about to put my swimmers on to go in the sauna and I hear boom, and I look up, the entire sauna exploded.”

Dominique Elissa has had a near-death experience when a spa she was about to use exploded. Picture: Jonathan Ng

The explosion stopped Elissa in her tracks and she was forced to run to a nearby neighbour to call for help.

“It was like a 10-15m high explosion. The sauna burned to the ground. All the power went out. My phone was about to die.

“I had no reception. I am screaming ‘help, somebody help me’.

“Three fire trucks come to take down this huge fire. Luckily the sauna was 50m from the house on a hill.”

“The whole time I am thinking, is this a dream?, Is this my life?, Is this reality.

“It was the most horrific thing to experience because I was a few minutes away from going into that sauna.

“I am shaking with anxiety even thinking about it.

“I am so grateful to be alive. So grateful to be here. I was a few minutes from being in that sauna. I am going to see a therapist and get some help.”

Elissa’s parting message to her thousands of followers was that “life is precious”.

“My message to you is life is fragile. Life is precious, you have no idea what curve balls life is going to throw at you..

“It was the craziest 24 hours of my entire life. I feel so grateful to be alive.”

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