A Georgia college student who miraculously survived an eight-story fall had been singing and dancing to Miley Cyrus shortly before she accidentally plunged from her apartment window, newly released body-camera footage from the Athens-Clarke County Police Department shows. The footage captures the aftermath of 21-year-old Kristin Sargent's 65-foot fall. Her stunned friends told responding officers they could hardly believe she was still alive, with one saying, "I thought I was coming down here to see her dead."

According to a roommate, Sargent had been drinking a beer and dancing on the couch while singing Miley Cyrus' 2009 hit "The Climb" when she fell backward through the screen of an open window at the five-bedroom, eighth-floor apartment in Athens, Georgia. Apartment security camera video showed her falling, with the window screen following behind her. She suffered severe injuries, including an open femur fracture and a wound in her chest, yet survived. Investigators believe she may have been so intoxicated that she did not brace herself, potentially reducing the impact as she landed on a cushioned metal bench below.S1S2

Even from her hospital bed, Sargent was able to speak with emergency medical workers, and in the body-camera footage she tells them, "No one did anything bad to me." A hospital administrator later described her as drunk when she arrived. Her friends, who had been at the apartment during a Georgia-Oklahoma football weekend, said they had known she would be fine. "I would die if I fell from that. She's just a beast," one friend said in the video. "We were all like, if anyone's gonna come back from this, it's Kristin."S1S2

Sargent, a University of Georgia student, faces a long recovery following the September incident, according to her loved ones.S1S2