Insane reason woman fell seven storeys

Tominey Reid, 21, almost died when she plunged seven storeys from her boyfriend’s apartment, breaking her back and tearing an artery.

A year ago Tominey Reid plunged seven storeys from her then boyfriend’s balcony in a fall that nearly killed her.

The 21-year-old broke her back, shattered a kneecap, severed her sciatic nerve and tore an artery in her heart in the horror fall.

The reason she fell?

Her phone.

Ms Reid, an apprentice hairdresser, had been on the phone to her then boyfriend Kyle while he was on holiday in Greece.

Tominey Reid almost died when she plunged 7 storeys from her then boyfriend's balcony.

She had been staying at his apartment in Melbourne and walked out onto the balcony to speak to him.

“All of a sudden the phone fell backward off the balcony,” Kyle said.

“I decided to hang up and I was like, ‘Oh, she’ll go get her phone’.”

The phone had fallen onto the balcony below and Ms Reid went to the apartment in question to retrieve the phone.

However, she got no answer and she decided to get the phone herself rather than waiting for the neighbours to return home.

“I tried to retrieve it and I was hanging over the balcony,” she told A Current Affair.

The apartment building in Melbourne.

Ms Reid spent five days in an induced coma. (Nine)

“I was hanging from the balcony for about five minutes.

“I had fake nails on and they were snapping off one by one.

“I made the conscious decision to let go because I was getting too weak to hold on anymore.”

Ms Reid plunged to what was very nearly her death, a glass pane breaking her fall and almost certainly saving her life.

However she was badly injured and spent five days in an induced coma while doctors battled to save her life.

When she regained consciousness doctors told her she would probably have permanent brain damage due to three bleeds on her brain.

There were also concerns that her leg would have to be amputated and that she would never be able to walk again.

However, Ms Reid, was determined to prove them wrong.

“I thought, ‘stuff that’,” she said.

Against the odds, Ms Reid did learn to walk again and was discharged from hospital a day before her 21st birthday.

Ms Reid’s right leg is still paralysed and she needs a brace to walk but she plans to tackle the next challenge one step at a time.

She now has a powerful message for her peers.

“I think it’s a good message for young people to know that they’re not invincible,” she said.

“Have more thought in decisions you make because this has impacted my life forever.”

She added: “Phones are replaceable.”