A model declared dead after she was pushed off a 150-foot-high apartment balcony astonished doctors when she opened her eyes in hospital.
The victim, named as 38-year-old Olivia in Russian media, had been on holiday in Turkey with her boyfriend Ivan on 8th June when she says he attacked her during a drinking session.
Olivia claims he hit her so hard that she toppled backwards over the balcony rail of their ninth-storey apartment and was sent plummeting to the ground below.
Picture shows Moscow model named only as Olivia, 38, undated photo. She experienced clinical death after falling from 9th floor in Turkey. Note: Private photo. (@olivia_korolevski/Newsflash/NX)
Ivan, she said, first caught her hand but she did not have the strength to hold on.
She explained: "But I couldn't hold on any longer.
"I broke down when I heard the crunch of my bones, but after falling from the ninth floor, I was conscious and the ambulance arrived quite quickly.
"I had three broken ribs, damaged internal organs, a broken arm, nose and bones around my eyes.
Moscow model named only as Olivia, 38, poses in undated photo. She experienced clinical death after falling from 9th floor in Turkey. Note: Private photo taken from social media. (@olivia_korolevski/Newsflash/NX)
"I was declared clinically dead."
Olivia was pronounced dead in the ambulance on the way to the hospital in Mersin but astonished doctors when she was revived in intensive care.
Ivan was first arrested by police as a murder suspect when Olivia was declared dead at 01.05 am.
But the charge, reports Russian media, was reduced to grievous bodily harm when Olivia was brought back to life.
Olivia, a finalist in the 2017 pageant 'Beauty of the Russian Empire', says she withdrew her complaint when Ivan begged her to forgive him and promised to pay compensation.
She explained: "He promised to write me a guarantee that he would pay for my medical treatment for a year, help with everything. And I believed him."
Moscow model named only as Olivia, 38, poses in undated photo. She experienced clinical death after falling from 9th floor in Turkey. Note: Private photo taken from social media. (@olivia_korolevski/Newsflash/NX)
But Olivia claims he withdrew the offer on the flight home to Russia and now, she says, she is suing him.
She said: "He probably realised that he wouldn't get into trouble for this and relaxed. I didn't start a showdown, I just wanted to get home, I felt too bad.
"And already in Moscow, I decided to make this story public, I posted the videos on my social networks, which also reached Ivan.
"After that, he started calling me, threatening me, saying, 'If you don't delete these videos and make a denial, I'll file a police report against you. And I'll also tell everyone that you're sick and jumped from the balcony yourself.'
"Yes, he paid for my treatment at the hospital, but in the end, I was left without the promised compensation."
(Joseph Golder / newsX)