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This video of an 80yo sky diver will freak you out.

Laverne Everett did not think her first skydive would end up like this.

She wanted to celebrate her 80th birthday with a bit of excitement, but the jump went horribly wrong when she almost fell out of her harness during the dive. Here’s the video:

She defended her instructor against criticism he pushed her against her will.

The Huffington Post wrote:

“The upper harness came off, you know,” she said in a recent interview with CBS Sacramento, available below. “Just slipped down, it was just the lower harness, is all I had.”

“This happened a long time ago and everything worked as advertised,” said Parachute Center owner Bill Dause in a statement to ABC News. “No one got hurt or injured.”

So, still feel like jumping? It hasn’t deterred Laverne from excitement. She now wants to drive in a race car.

Here’s her interview: