Alex Ross-King’s mum speaks out after her tragic dying at FOMO music pageant

A heartbroken mom has recalled the second she came upon her daughter had gone into cardiac arrest after overdosing at a pageant.

Alex Ross-King, 19, died after taking three doses of MDMA on the FOMO music pageant in Parramatta in January 2019.

{The teenager} took one capsule whereas onboard a celebration bus from her house on NSW’s Central Coast and two tablets after they arrived at about 12:30pm.

Alice informed associates she had taken the tablets earlier than the pageant as an alternative of inside as a result of she was afraid of being caught by police.

Roughly 9 hours later, {the teenager} can be declared useless.

Her mom Jennie recalled the final dialog she ever had along with her daughter throughout an emotional interview with YouTuber Jamie Zhu.

‘I simply stated to her “honey, it is actually sizzling, please be sure you drink loads of water and keep cool” and he or she stated, “yeah mum, no worries, I like you, bye”,’ she stated.

‘And that was the final time I spoke to her.’

Alice’s associates, Mackenzie and Petra, additionally attended the pageant. 

‘She took one on the bus, as did I,’ Mackenzie stated. 

‘Once we received there, she had one other two. As an alternative of taking it in, she determined to take each on the identical time.’

Just a few hours later, Petra knew one thing was unsuitable when Alice struggled to take care of eye contact along with her and commenced tripping over folks. 

The group had been noticed by a roaming medical officer who successfully dragged Alice with the assistance of her associates to the medical tent.

A paramedic assessed Alice and famous she had ‘spontaneous and uncontrollable giant muscle actions, indicators in keeping with serotonin toxicity’.

She had a temperature of 41C, so paramedics utilized icepacks. Alice’s jaw was spasming, her pulse was racing, and her respiratory was brief and irregular.

Alice was behaving erratically and borderline abusive – which her associates stated was very out of character.

‘They had been clearly asking me questions on what she had taken, and that is once I began telling them the whole lot,’ Petra recalled.

Alice was rushed to Westmead Hospital, shedding consciousness on the best way. Medical doctors intubated her and he or she was placed on a ventilator.

Ten minutes after arriving on the hospital, she went into cardiac arrest with an ‘agitated’ Mackenzie calling Jennie to let her know.

‘I might inform there was one thing not proper and I stated “mate what’s unsuitable? What is going on on?” and he did not know what to say or find out how to say it,’ Jennie recalled. 

An emergency physician received on the cellphone and requested if she was driving. He requested her to tug over and informed her Alice had gone into cardiac arrest. 

Medical doctors administered giant doses of adrenaline over 4 hours of tried resuscitation. Finally, the choice was made to cease mechanical CPR. 

A toxicology report discovered an MDMA focus effectively into the deadly vary. 

Petra had been standing exterior the hospital when the doorways opened and he or she noticed her associates inside, watching her and shaking their heads.

‘That is once I knew, I simply dropped to the ground,’ she stated by tears.

Jennie stated Alice had been her ‘solely child’. 

‘What’s my objective now in life? What do I do?’ she remembered pondering. 

Jennie has since been vocal about altering the legislation and educating younger folks. 

She now goals to launch a podcast to coach younger folks concerning the dangers of substance use at festivals and supply dad and mom with the information they should preserve their kids protected. 

‘I simply need younger folks to be armed with the knowledge, not for fogeys to go “effectively my children do not take medication”. Okay, that is nice, however are you going to guess their life on it? As a result of that is what your doing,’ Jennie stated. 

‘Alex did not take medication, to me she did not take medication. However she did.’