Brinkley additionally took the chance to mirror on the 1994 helicopter crash in her new memoir.
The accident, which nearly killed her and 5 others whereas they have been heli-skiing in Telluride, Colorado, was reportedly “sudden and traumatic, popping out of nowhere.”
The Nationwide Lampoon’s Trip star added: “We had already taken two runs and have been circling to land for a 3rd, on the saddle of a faraway peak, when the helicopter simply fell from the sky, plunging right into a freefall from 300 toes overhead, with no autorotation.”
Brinkley was together with her eldest daughter, Alexa Ray Joel, when the traumatic crash occurred.
“All of the sudden, it grew to become crystal clear that the one factor that basically mattered in life and at dying was the identical: love. Love. I centered on Alexa Ray, holding her pure in my ideas and hoping to venture all my coronary heart and soul to her so she would really feel it on the very second of impression,” she continued.
Within the e-book, Brinkley recalled how highly effective the impression was that it ripped the cabin in two. Thankfully, nobody in her group died.