Woman woke up from a coma of five months to discover her fiancé of four years GHOSTED her

‘I woke from a coma after five months to find out my fiancé had GHOSTED me and moved in with someone else’: Woman reveals her devastation saying boyfriend ‘utterly left me in the dust’

Brie Duval, 25, who is originally from Perth, Australia was living in Alberta, Canada when she fell from a rooftop bar in a freak accident and landed head firstShe was left with several broken bones, suffered two brain bleeds and was airlifted to the University of Alberta Hospital and placed on life support Parents were refused permission to fly to her after Australia went into lockdown Five months after the accident, she started to remember her life before the coma and tried to call her fiancé, only to discover that he’d ghosted herPartner of four years had blocked her from all of his social media platforms and his phone – with his new girlfriend admitting she’d asked him to do it Do you know the man involved? Email stephanie.linning@mailonline.co.uk

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A woman has revealed her turmoil after waking up from a coma to discover her fiancé had blocked her on social media and left her for another woman.

Restaurant supervisor Brie Duval, 25, who is originally from Perth, Australia, was living in the mountain town of Jasper in Alberta, Canada when she fell from a rooftop bar in a freak accident and landed head first on a pavement below in August 2020.

She was airlifted to the University of Alberta Hospital in Edmonton and placed on life support where doctors told her parents, Shay and Clarissa, who were in Australia, that she’d suffered several broken bones – including a spine injury, two brain bleeds, fractured ribs and broken teeth. 

Doctors gave her just a 10 per cent chance of survival, and she was placed in an induced coma in intensive care to try and save her life. 

Deciding to speak out now about her ordeal, she says the emotional trauma of being ghosted by her partner of four years was a huge shock, saying there’s been ‘zero contact’ from him – and the only message she did get was from his new girlfriend.

Two years on, her former fiancé’s total erasing of her from his life is still traumatic to deal with, she says. 

Brie told FEMAIL that she’s still ‘incredibly hurt by his actions’, saying she thought he was ‘her soul mate’ and struggling to believe that he could be ‘so awful’ at the worst time in her life.

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Brie Duval, 25, who is originally from Australia was living in Jasper, Canada when she fell from a rooftop bar in a freak accident in August 2020

Doctors put her in an induced coma after scans revealed she had suffered several broken bones – including a spine injury, two brain bleeds, fractured ribs and broken teeth

Do you know the man involved? 

Please email stephanie.linning@mailonline.co.uk 

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During the fall, Brie had suffered two brain bleeds, a Thoracic Spine Fracture, fractured ribs and broken teeth and was left with a weakened left side of her body. 

A crowd funding campaign set up three days after she was admitted to hospital saw more than £26,000 raised to bring Brie back to her native Australia. 

Her parents had asked the Australian Government for special permission to see their daughter, thinking they were going to have to say goodbye to her – but they were refused permission to visit during the first lockdown. 

Brie’s mum Clarissa told doctors to leave her daughter’s life support on until they could be near her and she slowly began to recover. 

Three months later, she woke from the coma – but suffered from amnesia and didn’t remember her previous life – including that she had a fiancé who she’d been with for four years for another two months.

Five months after the accident, she started to remember her life before the coma and tried to call her fiancé, who she had been with for four years, only to discover he’d ghosted her and moved on.

Brie told FEMAIL that when she was finally given her phone she immediately thought to call him – only to discover he’d not visited her once in hospital.  

She explained: ‘There has been zero contact. I have been blocked on every single platform including his phone. 

Five months after the accident, she started to remember her life before the coma and tried to call her fiancé, only to discover he’d ghosted her – and moved on with another woman

Brie says she’s still ‘so incredibly hurt’ by the actions of her former partner, who she was with for four years before her accident 

The restaurant supervisor hopes to go back to her job in Jasper, Canada next year, saying her company has told her there’ll always be a job for her

‘The only contact I did get was from his new girlfriend. She sent me a message saying she was insecure and made him block me on everything. Go figure. I was still in hospital’. 

Looking back on his behaviour now, she says it’s still hard to deal with. 

‘I am still so incredibly hurt by his actions. I have no reason or closure as to why he did what he did. I just feel so hurt, I cannot explain the depth of the pain he has caused me. 

‘After four years, I was incredibly surprised. We were best friends, for years. I never thought in a million years this would happen. Especially at such an awful time in my life. I thought he was my soul mate, but I thought wrong. 

She says it’s made her mistrustful of finding love – and people in general. 

‘It has definitely impacted my trust. Not just in romantic relationships but with relationships in general. 

‘It has led me to have such a distrust in people, especially people I am close with. I am trying very hard to not let his distrustful actions impact my relationships and life.’ 

The 25-year-old has said she now finds it hard to trust people – not just potential partners – because of her ex fiancé’s behaviour

Five months after the accident, she started to remember her life before the coma and tried to call her fiancé, who she had been with for four years, only to discover he’d ghosted her and had a new girlfriend

Brie was airlifted to the University of Alberta Hospital and placed on life support. The 25-year-old is still recovering from the impact of the horrific fall two years on

She says seeing her parents in the aftermath of the accident would have helped her recover from the near death experience ‘massively’. 

‘The doctors in Canada asked my parents to come over straight away as things were not looking good. I was given a 10% chance of survival and they would have to make some decisions. 

The only contact I did get was from his new girlfriend. She sent me a message saying she was insecure and made him block me on everything…
Brie Duval on being ghosted by her ex following her life threatening injuries 

‘This was in the middle of Australia locking down [because of the pandemic] and after seeking approval via the Government to leave and say goodbye to their dying daughter, they were denied the opportunity to do so. 

‘Luckily I had the best support team in Canada and they would FaceTime my parents at every meeting and appointment to keep them involved. I will never be able to thank the people in my life enough.’ 

The 25-year-old has now moved back to Perth to be near her friends and family. Her recovery is slow but positive, she says.

‘It’s going good as far as recovery goes. I can now eat on my own and can now walk unassisted without a walking frame or wheelchair as I broke my back in the accident. 

‘I still have numbness from the waist down but have adapted my walking style so I can walk again. I am taking time off of work to be in Australia to recover with my loved ones. Recovery will take some time but I am hoping to return to work next year.’ 

Her story has gone viral on TikTok, where she’s called herself ‘HotComaGirl113’ the same username as Rebel Wilson’s character in recent Netflix film Senior Year.

Brie’s parents went to the government to ask for special permission thinking they were going to have to say goodbye to their daughter. She is pictured in a tiktok video 

In the movie, Rebel plays a teenage girl who ends up in a coma for 20 years after a cheerleading accident aged 17. Rebel’s character Stephanie is also an Australian immigrant – but living in the US rather than Canada. 

She says speaking out on TikTok has been hugely important to her emotional recovery: ‘I decided to speak out as a way to express my bottled up feelings. I never thought by making a simple 30 second video that it would have as much impact as it would. 

‘I’m glad that I can now spread awareness of traumatic brain injuries and the aftermath that follows. It is not just a temporary injury but a lifelong one that will impact my mentality and physicality for the rest of my life.’

Despite her ongoing injuries and the loss of her long-term relationship, Brie tells FEMAIL that she’s tried to appreciate what she still has. 

She explains: ‘The emotional toll of being so close to death has impacted me in a positive way. I am now so grateful for the little things in life that I took for granted and have so much more appreciation for life. 

‘My experience has taught me that life is so frail and short. I now want to make the absolute most of my life and jam pack it with as many memories as I can. 

My only goal in life has nothing to do with monetary value but genuine happiness.’

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