ITV TOWIE's Yazmin Oukhellou says she's 'had her heartbreak' in scenes filmed just weeks before fatal crash

The Only Way Is Essex returned to ITVBe on Monday night (August 21) for its 29th series. The hit reality TV show, which first aired back in 2010, brought back some TOWIE favourites alongside some new faces for its latest series.

The first episode saw the reality stars in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, where Yazmin Oukhellou was filmed alongside her co-stars. The 28-year-old spoke about her previous relationships in scenes filmed just weeks before she was severely injured in a fatal crash that killed her ex-boyfriend Jake McLean.

Yazmin said doctors told her she was 'lucky to be alive' after the horror collision where the car plunged 70 foot off a cliff. The TV star had to 'snap her arm' to free herself and get help after seeing her former partner unconscious.

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Yaz had spontaneously flown to Turkey to reconcile with her on-off boyfriend. She had nodded off in the car after partying with friends in Bodrum and woke to find the Mercedes plunging off a cliff.

Yazmin told the Sun: “We were just tumbling for what seemed like forever. It felt like I was going round in a washing machine, just round and round.

“Then eventually it stopped and my right arm was jammed. The car was upside down. It had an open sunroof and my right arm was just stuck behind my back and under the folded back of the car roof."

The reality star revealed she had severed an artery in her arm during the crash but trough 'adrenaline and panic' she managed to snap her arm so that she could go and reach help.

She said: “I could just felt my arm absolutely covered in blood. It was like I was lying in a hot bath, there was so much