Candace Emptage was left in a coma after a horrific car accident, but when she awoke she believed it was still the 1990s, and could not remember having a child.
’They told me I had a daughter and I just stared at them and said, ‘what?’’
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The former model was convinced it was still the 1990s when she awoke in hospital to find a stranger (her daughter) looking over her.
She lost control of her Toyota in September 2010 and crashed into an Ambulance in Tyne and Wear, suffering massive injuries.
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Firefighters spent an hour cutting her free from the wreckage, and saved her life in the process.
She came so close to death that her family considered switching off her life support machine, but at the last minute she moved her finger and they decided to wait.
Speaking of her daughter, the mother of one says she still can’t remember her daughter before the crash - meaning she has no memories of her growing up.
‘I thought I was about 22,’ explained Candace.
’They told me I had a daughter and I just stared at them and said, ‘what?’’
And Candace has visited the firefighters who saved her life on that fateful September night, even recognising them despite her state.
‘This whole time I believed I had been alone that night without any real human contact but it all came flooding back to me when I saw their faces.’
‘I wanted to meet the firefighters who came to my rescue…I wanted to say a huge thank you, I owe them my life.’