An American living in Edinburgh is set to turn her near-death experience into a comedy show during the Fringe Festival
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Krystal said: “I’m a lucky person because I am quite resilient. I don’t know if I have made myself like that or if it comes naturally. I make jokes about things. That’s how I communicate. I always have.” “I couldn’t breathe when I was in the room. There was a double-paned window that didn’t really open, it kind of slid sideway because it was a mobile home. I broke it with a window and the second layer with a desk drawer. When the oxygen hit the room the flames rushed right at me and I had to leap out very quickly.
She said: “It’s a heroine story and a hard story to tell but still very funny. Like light at the end of the tunnel type story. Not at all dark and gloomy. She laughs: “Perhaps a lot of people, after they have a baby, they go, ‘Oops, too late now’. But for me it was the opposite. I thought I have to do it now because otherwise it will never happen. I was looking at the baby thinking I need to try this out. At least try, because I don’t want the baby to look at me like I was the kind of human being who never followed their dreams.”
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