This is really interesting to me.
Sarah Welch — a model and former contestant on “The Bachelor” — is suing several companies involved with the fashion show she worked at the Mondrian Hotel in West Hollywood on October 18, 2007.
We found the lawsuit — filed in Santa Monica earlier this month. Welch claims she suffered “great injuries to her body, shock and injuries to her nervous system” after she fell through a hole in the runway which was created by the performer who went on before her.
Welch is suing for negligence and is seeking unspecified damages.
I know Sarah Welch. When I lived in LA, I spent a few months dating a guy who was in business with her boyfriend. Actually, I just checked, and I still have the girl’s phone number in my cell phone. The first night I met her, I wrote about it here, and that article about the USA4Real New Year’s Eve party was picked up and syndicated in a few different places. A couple weeks later, I got a call from Sarah. “I just wanted to thank you for that article,” she said. “I’ve gotten so much press about that fall, and I think you’re the first writer who actually took the time to figure out who I was as a person and write something nice about me. It meant the world to me, thank you.” We spoke on and off a few times after that, then I broke up with my dude and I never saw her again.
But I stand by my initial analysis. It’s kind of a silly lawsuit, but she’s a good girl, and I wish her well.
holy crap!
Just when I figured out who she was as a person she pulled this awesome upskirt and became an object again. Oh well.
SHE IS TOTALLY DOING THE RIGHT THING!!
Not silly at all. That was negligence on the part of the organizers not to properly address the very obvious, large and dangerous hole in the runway floor. Dear God I wish I were her attorney. You can’t ask for clearer evidence. You have those dancers perform, jumping around and shit, and you don’t have a staff person even LOOK at the runway to check to make sure nothing was displaced from the intensely physical dance moves and such? Even if a hole hadn’t been produced, it is reasonable to expect the organizers to verify that the floor boards were not separated or otherwise impaired when atypical runway activity took place prior to the models walking out. If that model is reading this, call me gurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrl I’ll win yer case. For free. Just to piss off all the bloggers who will have a snizzy over this, too. No seriously. I’m about ta get my law’n on.
I agree!
Yeah, actually a pretty solid case…
I do too! She could have been hurt badly…shattered ankles and all that.
yeah and what about the performer who didn’t say ANYTHING about the hole? was he embarrassed or something? get over it man. people can get hurt!
how do you know he didnt say anything about the hole? He could have said something when he walked backstage right?
yeah, he obviously wasn’t supposed to land flat on his back and make a gaping hole…
Agreed!
Another one on her side. She has a solid case here! Even my husband asked why the heck no one did anything about the hole or warned her. That was ridiculous!
Good for her, I really hope that she wins, but also that her career continues without having her tagged as “the girl who fell through the stage”, because you can tell she is beautiful and good at what she does.
that hole was no serect it was so noticeable
You sound so stuck up when you point out the people you know. “I just checked and i still have her number.” Wow cool were all jealous.
Wow, obviously you kind of ARE jealous. I wasn’t expecting that. Never underestimate the insecurity of certain people.
Water off a duck’s back, Beet.
We(‘)re more with you than against you, I promise.
i agree “I know Sarah Welch.” congrats, she’s famous for falling through a hole. I know plenty of people who could do that and be less annoying then a reality tv star, and you don’t see me bragging.
Eye to brain: There is a hole in the floor. Wow it is pretty obvious black dark hole on the white floor.
Brain to legs: Just keep on walking honey, you are too beautiful to think for yourself and accept personal responsibility
Female Beet visitor: Evil men did it! They all probably punched her and abused her back stage because that is what all men do! Sue them!! Cut off all the penises!
First: You are an asshole. Seriously.
Second: She is not looking down to the floor, so she probably didn’t see the hole in the floor.
As someone who used to do runway: you are not to look down when you walk. You are to stare vacantly ahead. It could have happened to any model doing her job right. Not to mention the stage lights are so bright that your peripheral vision is nil.
> peripheral vision is nil.
This isn’t her peripheral it is right in front of her. The lights would affect above her eyeline, not at floor height.
Models walk to the center of the stage before heading down the runway. You tell me you aren’t checking what is ahead of you BEFORE you start the walk?
This is not walking down the street. It’s in the middle of a hectic atmosphere with multiple distractions around. One doesn’t expect there to be a hole in the middle of the runway. The argument of “well she should have seen it” doesn’t cut it.
not all the penises
just yours
And if a male visitor threatened to cut the vagina of a female visitor this would be tolerated how?
you’ll have to excuse donkey punch. he’s angry because he’s running out of room under his floor where he’s been hiding the bodies of all the pizza delivery boys.
Female Beet visitor: Evil men did it! They all probably punched her and abused her back stage because that is what all men do! Sue them!! Cut off all the penises!
*crickets*
DP, dp YOU even think that you are funny?
ug, *do
hahahahaha
Lord knows there are too many silly lawsuits filed, but this isn’t one of them.
She’s totally justified.
That happened to me once–not on a runway–at my house while doing some remodeling. It HHHHUUURRT!!! My ribs caught on the side of the hole and I got the wind knocked out of me. It hurt so bad!! However, I was only sore for about a day.
Owww, my ribs hurt from reading that
the fact that you still have her number is kind of irrelevant, you must admit. you know her, you have her number, you wrote something about her, she praised you.. the whole paragraph is irrelevant.
Heh heh. Then again, this goes for 99% of the internet.
that video is pretty funny in an americas funniest home videos kind of way. but yeah I would probably be suing too.
even if i knew her, i wouldn’t find this “really interesting”.
she was wobling before the hole, isnt she?
Yes.lawsuits look and sound quite legit
Too bad it happened to a sociopath now claiming to be “one of the top producers”
As a Beverly Hills realtor … chick has been THIR$TY for years…