Hallmark actress Mamie Laverock has taken her first steps more than two months after a five-story fall from a hospital balcony left her on life support.
Just weeks after turning 20, the “When Calls the Heart” actress shared an emotional video on Facebook capturing the first moment she’s been able to walk since the horrifying accident.
In the two-minute clip, staffers stand on either side of Laverock — who can be seen with air casts on both feet — as they help her from a hospital bed to a walker.
“It feels really weird,” Laverock tells her family, who’s filming the occasion. “It feels very wobbly.”
Addressing her dad, who’s watching via FaceTime, Laverock says, “Look, I’m standing with the walker. All by myself.”
Laverock’s mother then marvels as the young actress takes her first steps, while the staffers urge her not to worry how it looks.
The actress had been spending time at St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver for a previous undisclosed medical emergency when she fell five stories from a balcony walkway on May 26, her family shared on a GoFundMe page.
“She sustained life-threatening injuries, has undergone multiple extensive surgeries, and is currently on life support,” her family said at the time.
In the wake of speculation that Laverock’s fall was a suicide attempt, her mother told the L.A. Times it was not intentional and blamed the staffers at St. Paul’s.
“There will be accountability,” Nicole Rockmann said, saying the family plans to take legal action against the healthcare facility.
