Amira Thorntan from Oregon, USA, came to the rescue of her mum Jennifer when she started choking on some sausage to the point where she couldn’t speak.
Amira was watching TV when she heard her mum struggling in the kitchen. After seeing that Jennifer was choking, she recalled the scene from the 1993 comedy where Robin Williams administers the Heimlich to Pierce Brosnan.
‘I picked her up three times,’ Amira told KABC. ‘She spit the sausage out.’
Amira’s mum admitted that she had panicked before her brave daughter saved the day: ‘It was pretty scary because there was nobody else here, and I couldn't talk, I couldn't, I was just in shock.’
Amira said that, in addition to Mrs. Doubtfire, her grandfather had showed her how to perform the lifesaving maneuver.