The Astro World Music festival.
Was by far the most traumatizing
experience of my life.
I'm a mother of two. And I went
to the festival alone by myself.
Soul.
I never. I thought that by
attending the festival.
I was taking the chance that
I would possibly not return
home to my children when I
woke up Saturday morning.
I found that so many people that I had.
Spoken with in the crowd.
Were exposed to.
So much trauma I had.
I had no idea that people in the
crowd had passed away that night. I
was towards the front left hand
stage of the Utopia mountain stage.
When Travis Scott began to perform. And.
The thing that stands out to me
the most in my memory is that I
remember being crushed from every
side by human bodies. All around me.
When he began to perform his first song,
the crowd began to jump up and down,
and with so many human bodies,
contacting your body from every
area with them jumping up and down,
there's no way possible for
you to maintain your footing.
I was not able to stand on my own.
We formed a camaraderie of sorts
and the crowd to be able to hold one
another up so that we do not go down.
By the third or fourth song,
I remember trying to make my way
out of the crowd and I tapped
a woman to the behind me,
maybe about two people behind me to the rear,
and when I tap the woman to ask
her to please move out of my way,
you can tell that she was kind of.
She was kind of having trouble
breathing on her own.
The next thing I know,
the woman began to have a seizure.
She was there with her best friend,
her best friend just started screaming out.
Oh my gosh, she's having a seizure.
Please someone get the medic.
I'm looking around for the paramedics.
I don't see anyone responding.
The woman hits the ground and I'm
the next person behind this woman.
Her feet are next to my feet.
The only thing that I can think of
is if I tripped over this woman's
feet were going to create a pilot.
There's no way possible
that I'm going to be able
to get out of this file.
Thank God there were people
around me to help me and and and
and help me to remain stable.
And the only thing that I the only
thing that kept reassuring myself,
is that if I can get out of that crowd
with the dense air with all of the
heat with everybody crushing me from.
Every which way,
then I'll be able to to breathe to return,
return to to normal air,
and unfortunately I made it.
I made it through the crowd.
I fainted.
As soon as I got through the crowd.
I believe that by the time
I started trying to leave,
the arena was around 9:45 PM.
I I was caught in the.
I was caught in the madness and the
mayhem until about 2:45 in the morning.
Not able to return to my children.
No cell phone service.
No way to Uber home.
No way to contact anyone.
There was no taxi service so it was
literally like I was trapped downtown
by myself where I know no one.
I don't know anyone here so it was.
It was truly the most traumatizing
experience and I had no way of even
getting back to my car because
where my vehicle was parked,
I later found out that that was the
that was the reunification site for the,
for the people had.
Who had lost their lives during the concert?
So I was being I was purposely being
re routed from getting back to my
vehicle because the the families
needed to go and find out whether or
not their family members were still
alive where my vehicle was parked.
I. I have not.
I have not. I know for a fact that I'll
never attend I at this point I feel as
if I'm very shaken up with large crowds.
I'm. I go. I feel like.
Yesterday, for example,
I went to the nail salon and as
I'm sitting I'm sitting there the.
Astro world.
Clips are on every single TV screen you
see people being carried out on stretchers.
You don't have the opportunity
to even move on with your life.
You're forced to relive this
over and over and over again,
and I know that so many people think that
that you know that that that's helpful,
and I know that you know everyone
has their story, but it it just,
it just forces you to relive
the trauma over and over again.
And then there's discussions about
it in person and online about what
people in the crowd should have done.
And saying well,
if you were in the crowd and.
You notice someone dying around you?
Why didn't you help?
I'm not a licensed medical professional.
I.
Only thing that I could think about
was me not falling on top of this
woman and crushing her to Death II.
I'm not trained and how to
respond to a crisis like that.
So for people to pass their
opinions on how the concert
goers should have responded,
that's completely inappropriate
and traumatizing.