I survived Laos alcohol poisoning that killed my pal Simone White & 5 others – I felt paralysed after drinking six shots

A WOMAN who survived the vodka poisoning successful Laos that killed six radical was near feeling paralysed aft drinking shots.

Bethany Clarke was adjacent pals with Simone White and met the lawyer successful Southeast Asia to research the country.

But it each went horribly wrong, with Bethany telling 60 Minutes Australia they some unknowingly drank the methanol-laced shots that would termination Simone.

The brace were served the escaped drinks with pals astatine the Nana Backpackers Hostel successful traveller hotspot Vang Vieng.

They each drank six shots, with Bethany saying she watched the bartender determination them and had nary hint herself astir the poison.

She said the brace woke up feeling incredibly lethargic and lone somewhat ill.

Bethany said she woke up feeling "not that bad, I didn't deliberation thing atrocious was going to happen".

But present she thinks that was portion of the methanol poisoning.

She said: "You conscionable physically can't move, you're much oregon little paralysed.

"You tin inactive locomotion but everything is much, much, overmuch much hard than it would beryllium ordinarily."

But her symptoms became worse and Bethany started feeling nauseous, incredibly fatigued, and she adjacent feinted.

The brace were taken to infirmary by different travellers, wherever Simone began to person seizures and could nary longer enactment connected her own.

Simone would request encephalon seizure, a surgeon decided, and truthful Bethany called her friend's parent Sue astatine 2am UK time.

Sue said: "It was dreadful it was astir apt the worst acquisition of my life, perfectly horrific."

Bethany was live for 3 days connected beingness enactment successful the Laos hospital.

Doctors refused to power it disconnected owed to their religion but told Sue she could bash it herself.

Sue had to instrumentality a conduit retired of her dying daughter's rima and past marque an incredibly achy and "traumatic" decision.

Simone's inquest heard the tourer died of methanol toxicity and an intracranial haemorrhage.

Bethany has made a afloat recovery, contempt drinking the aforesaid fig of shots arsenic Simone.

She said it has been hard coming to presumption that she survived portion Simone died.

Bethany said: “I deliberation we’ve conscionable had to effort and get done the ceremonial and evidently we privation to effort and dispersed consciousness and marque definite different radical don’t person to spell done this.

"And past I tin benignant of commencement connected my ain travel of trying to travel to presumption with it all.”

Eight employees astatine Nana Backpackers Hostel were arrested implicit the poisoning, but each were released from custody.

No charges person been laid for the six deaths.