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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Sirin Kale

I gave birth, then they put me in a coma: Grace Victory on surviving Covid and bonding with her baby

Grace Victory holding her son, Cyprus
Grace Victory with her son, Cyprus. Photograph: Kate Peters/The Guardian

While in a coma and on life support, Grace Victory had hallucinatory and terrifying dreams. She was sex trafficked. Doctors removed her legs. Her ovaries were operated on, and her children harvested. She woke up dead, in Reading.

It was January 2021, and the 31-year-old influencer was in hospital with Covid-19. She remembers the dreams as vividly as if they were the plot of her favourite TV show. They’re “embedded in my brain”, Victory says, “as real memories. Being told it didn’t happen – it’s like, well, it did.”

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