Woman Trying To Kill Spider Stabs Self With High Heel That Gets Stuck In Foot

An Australian woman’s hunt for a spider in her bedroom sent her straight to the hospital with a shoe sticking out from her leg. The woman needed surgery after the 7cm heel of her designer stiletto got stuck in her foot.

Alyssa Lambert spotted the huntsman spider on her bedroom ceiling on the night she wound up in a hospital bed on Jan. 24. As she stood on her bed, the woman tried to use bug spray on the creepy-crawly but got startled when it lunged toward her, according to 7News. When she jumped off the bed in fear, she landed right on top of her Camilla and Marc stiletto, which went straight through her foot.

“I started spraying the spider from my bed and it jumped at me so I jumped off the bed and landed straight onto the heel,” she said, according to the publication. “It was not sharp at all, it was about a 1.5 cm wide heel.”

Lambert, who posted a video of the incident on TikTok, said she was in shock as the 7 cm heel of the shoe stuck out from her foot. “My housemate rang the ambulance and I was freaking out they're not going to take me seriously,” she told Yahoo News Australia.

Paramedics arrived and wrapped Lambert’s foot to ensure that the heel didn’t move around as they carried her downstairs to the ambulance. Doctors at the hospital took an X-ray and found 4.5 cm of the heel had pierced through her foot.

"They were like 'You've done a really good job. Put it that way'," she told the outlet. "'[We] don't see any bone damage, but you have done a really good job.’ At this point, I started to get a bit emotional and realized I'll probably need surgery.”

Lambert said she was not left with any permanent damage from being impaled by the stiletto heel. However, she did admit she might stick to flat shoes for a while.

The woman said her foot is already better, now that two weeks have passed since the surgery. "The stitches have come out and I can start walking next week," she told the publication. "I was preparing for the worst [so] that was just music to my ears."

"I still freak out whenever I see a little dot or something and I think it's a spider," she added, "and I’ll be making sure my floor is clean.”