CHARLOTTE LESCOTT held her four-month-old baby as she watched her partner Ali jump onto a jet-ski and wave him off.
But just moments later, the mum watched as the love of her life was instantly killed in a collision with the jet-ski instructor in Dubai.
Charlotte Lescott opened up about the fateful day and her last words to her partner[/caption]
The Palm Island in Dubai where Ali’s tragic accident took place[/caption]
Charlotte clutched her baby in horror as she witnessed the crash from the boat – it was the last time she would see Ali alive.
Now the mum of Soulie has opened up about the traumatic ‘freak accident.’
Speaking on the One Way or a Mother podcast, Charlotte said: “The instructor and Ali just collided, it was a freak accident.”
While the instructor survived the ordeal, Ali was killed on impact as he made his way back to the boat and to Charlotte and his daughter.
The horrific accident took place close to the famous tree-shaped Palm Jumeirah island in Dubai.
At first, Charlotte assumed he had broken a leg but realised it was fatal when a friend told her to sit down.
“What I saw with my eyes was absolutely traumatising,” she explained.
The trauma of the incident left Charlotte believing it couldn’t be Ali who she had seen in the accident she recalled.
But reality sunk in when her friend came over and told Charlotte to sit down.
“I just knew. I knew at that point,” she said.
The pair had moved to Dubai in 2020, and Charlotte recalls that the fateful day started like any other.
“That’s what’s so crazy is, like, we woke up that morning and it was just supposed to be a normal family day out,” she explained on the Topic Tuesdays podcast.
“Going on a boat, you wouldn’t think anything of it.”
Charlotte stayed on the boat with their daughter Soulie while Ali went off with some friends on the jet-skis.
The mum revealed that day was ‘lovely’ and she saw Ali off onto the jet-ski and waited for him to come back to the boat, as she wasn’t the biggest fan of the water activity.
There are no words to explain that feeling of going to bed without him there.
Charlotte Lescott
“And then the last words that I said to Ali was just ‘be safe, love you,’ that was it,” she added.
“That was the last words I’ve ever said to him.”
She recalls police being called to the scene, who asked Charlotte to come to the station, but she was so traumatised she begged them to let her go home.
“When I did, I went to bed, I went to bed without him there,” she said.
“That’s something I can never explain, there are no words to explain that feeling of going to bed without him there, knowing what happened.”
With a four-month-old child and thousands of miles away from home, Charlotte went on autopilot to keep herself going for her daughter.
“If I didn’t have her, I think it would have been a lot worse,” she said.
“I wouldn’t have anything to pull me through.”
Now, Charlotte and her daughter, who is almost five, share their life and journey through grief on social media to help others.
It comes after a Brit holidaying in Spain‘s Costa del Sol was also recently killed in a jet-ski accident.
43-year-old Debra Wright was riding a jet-ski when a speedboat crashed into her.
Spanish cops arrested a man described as a friend of the victim after the accident on Saturday night.
He appeared in court on Sunday to face charges of manslaughter and an alcohol-related offence after cops reported he failed a breathalyser test.
Police said the speedboat crashed into the jet-ski at 7.25pm on Saturday at a beach called Los Toros – just west of the popular Spanish holiday resort of Estepona.
Debra is believed to have died at the scene.
Where to seek grief support
Need professional help with grief?
- Child Bereavement UK Childbereavementuk.org
- Cruse Bereavement Cruse.org.uk
- Relate Relate.org.uk
- The Good Grief Trust Thegoodgrieftrust.org
- You can also always speak to your GP if you’re struggling.
You’re Not Alone
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- Griefcast: Cariad Lloyd interviews comedians on this award-winning podcast.
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- Good Mourning by Sally Douglas and Imogen Carn (£14.99, Murdoch Books): A guide for people who’ve suffered sudden loss, like the authors who both lost their mums.
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