Woman explains how she managed to survive after best friends ‘attempted to murder’ her

A woman has told how she managed to flee after her best friends allegedly tried to kill her as a teenager.

Alexa 'Lexi' Weinbaum explained she was just 16 years old when she had a brush with death after she was allegedly 'poisoned' with a substance by her so-called mates.

She shared the details of her ordeal in a series of TikTok videos on her account @lexiweinbaum, as well as clips discussing how she has worked to overcome her trauma.

Lexi, from Connecticut, explained she was 'hanging out' with three of her pals who she had 'known for quite a while', including a teen girl who had been her best friend since childhood.

In one clip shared online last year, the now-24-year-old said: "We were hanging out and they decided - without my knowledge and obviously consent - that they were going to administer me a substance, with the intention of having that substance end my life."

According to the Daily Mail, the youngster was handed a bong which she believed contained marijuana - however, it was reportedly a synthetic version which is 100 times more potent.

Lexi said the substance - which is said to have been linked to cases of psychosis after consumption - caused her to black out after she took just one hit.

In a TikTok, she explained: "Now what they gave me essentially poisoned me, it caused a large amount of medical issues in my body that were later fixed through my hospitalisation.

"However, when they gave this to me they physically assaulted me, they recorded things and posted them to Snapchat."

Lexi claims that after regaining consciousness and realising she was being attacked, she was only able to escape due to the relentless noise she made.

"I had screamed loud enough that I had woken up the mother of the person who's house it was," she went on. "She told me that I 'wasn't allowed to die on her property', so I was able to run away.

"My female friend chased me, she was the only one that followed me, and tried to convince everyone when I was screaming for help that I was crazy and that I didn't actually need help.

"Until, eventually, I collapsed. From there, I went to the hospital after the ambulance reached me."

Alexa says that beforehand, she had managed to alert a passerby and urged him to call 911, recalling how she was 'begging him for help, while really choking on my words in the process'.

The teen then explained that she suffered a number of seizures on the street and was 'just focused on surviving'.

Alexa said she was quickly given oxygen and administered an IV drip by paramedics, before doctors performed a series of scans on her brain and heart after reaching the hospital.

It was then discovered that the substance she had allegedly been plied with was K2, according to the Mail, which is also known as 'Spice', according to the US' Drug Enforcement Administration.

It explains: "State public health and poison centres have issued warnings in response to adverse health effects associated with abuse of herbal incense products containing these synthetic cannabinoids.

"These adverse effects included tachycardia (elevated heart rate), elevated blood pressure, unconsciousness, tremors, seizures, vomiting, hallucinations, agitation, anxiety, pallor, numbness, and tingling.

"This is in addition to the numerous public health and poison centres which have similarly issued warnings regarding the abuse of these synthetic cannabinoids.

"In some instances, the adverse health effects can be long-lasting even after the user quits using the substances."

Lexi said that medics also detected opiates in her system, which they suspected were also hidden in the synthetic marijuana.

The then-teenager spent several days in hospital before being released, but was been back and forth there in the following few months due to both physical and mental health reasons.

Lexi claims she has been left with heart problems following the incident, which took place around eight years ago.

Speaking of her friends' possible motives, she continued: "I have assumptions as to why.

"There were things that people had told me that they thought was the reason why, there were things that I know of myself...but ultimately, I'm never going to know for sure."

Alexa later launched her organisation, Sound of Survivors, which 'is a platform dedicated to helping educate on violent crime, as well as providing essential resources to aid victims in their healing process'.