A teenager says she was left incoherent and unable to walk after being ‘spiked’ - at a Taylor Swift concert.
Grace McAleavy, 18, started getting confused and slurred her words while she watched the megastar perform at Liverpool's Anfield Stadium on Friday.
Grace McAleavy, 18, started getting confused and slurred her words while she watched the megastar perform at Liverpool's Anfield Stadium on Friday.
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00:00Everyone doesn't believe me and thinks I was exhausted or I didn't drink enough or I was drunk
00:07So I'm going to explain what happened in that night. I had two coke zeroes and a bottle of water. I
00:14Didn't get there early. I got there about half five
00:18So in those few hours, I had three drinks, but when I first started to feel ill for me
00:23I just started to feel sick and dizzy at first and I thought that I was exhausted and maybe getting out the environment
00:30Would help so I went out of my seat
00:33During torture post apartment. I felt ill since 1989. I
00:38sat down outside on the floor and
00:41I thought I was gonna go back in for the surprise songs. I did not start to feel better while I was outside
00:46I was expecting that maybe a bit fresher less warm sitting down for a while would help but I started to feel worse
00:53I didn't want to miss the surprise songs
00:56So I know that I went back to my seat for the surprise songs
00:58But I do not remember what the surprise songs were the medics were asking me this to try and gauge
01:04I think they were either trying to make conversation to keep me
01:07Distracted from what was going on?
01:09I was on the floor and one of my friends came out to check what was happening at this point
01:14My memory is incredibly hazy, but I remember all I could keep saying was that I feel like I'm absolutely smashed
01:21When I'd looked either direction the my vision in my peripheral was slow
01:27It felt as if I'd had downed a bottle of vodka and I haven't had any alcohol
01:31I didn't really understand what people were asking me. So people were asking me questions. I didn't understand what they were saying
01:37I was just getting stressed out because I didn't understand
01:40and I was
01:43Non-stop shaking couldn't help it when I try and walk
01:47I was stumbling and couldn't quite figure out I was going to the point where I couldn't really walk anymore and I was falling
01:52I was incoherent the things I was saying weren't making any sense
01:57Anyone that saw me that night has told me there's no other explanation. I am someone that has been to a lot of concerts
02:04I've done a lot of
02:06Jumping around. I've been exhausted. I've definitely been dehydrated and I've definitely felt the repercussions of that
02:12What has never happened to me is that I've lost chunks of memory from a night
02:16I've been incoherent and I cannot walk. I had a seated ticket. I was not standing for all those hours
02:22I sat down in between each set and
02:25For everyone saying I should have just gone to the hospital and got a blood test and found out. I
02:31Should have you are completely right. That would be the thing that I should have done
02:34However, you have to try and remember that
02:38Although it sounds silly. My boyfriend was picking me up from this event
02:41He has work in six days a week because we're going on holiday. He was exhausted. He didn't want to pick me up
02:47I was exhausted. I was forcing myself to stay awake during all of this
02:51Simple things which should take five minutes at the moment in our NHS don't and I would have been in there for 14 hours
02:57And my boyfriend had to be in work early the next morning
03:00So take that as what you will if you don't believe that that's the case
03:04That's fine. And you're completely right. There will never be confirmation and I will never be able to say a hundred percent
03:11But I know my body and my friends have known me and my boyfriend and my little sister that have known me for a very
03:17Long time know that I do not behave like that
03:20To put it out there there was one man who was behaving very suspiciously and
03:26Without saying anything else. He did come out while I was on the floor and
03:30Come up to us and ask if we were leaving now does this necessarily mean anything?
03:35No, but it was something that my friends were quite they took note of I don't remember