Mom breaks foot after attempting astonishingly stupid TikTok challenge: ‘I’ve definitely learned my lesson’

Some people need a break from TikTok.

A mom sheepishly admitted she broke her foot after attempting a stupid TikTok challenge.

Klaire Cave, 40, and her cousin Gemma Stephens, 29, were on vacation in Grange-over-Sands, Cumbria, on Saturday, March 1, for Stephens’ birthday celebration, when Cave decided to record a video following a trend she had seen online.

After hanging out at a few bars, the women returned to their hotel room when Cave decided to replicate the #droppingthingsonmyfoot challenge, which is exactly as ridiculous as it sounds.

In the videos, people drop increasingly heavy items on their feet from waist height and rate the pain.

“Honestly, I don’t even know what went through my mind, but I think it’s just because I’d seen so many on TikTok and I thought ‘I’ll give that one a try as well’,” Cave told Kennedy News.

“I’ve tried a few dance ones and drinking ones and things, but this one seemed different, so I thought I’d give it a go.”

The tipsy mother-of-two began by dropping a spoon, which she rated 1/10 on the pain scale, and a door stop, which she rated 2/10.

After gaining some confidence, she eventually dropped the hotel’s standing fan and a full suitcase, which she rated 8/10 and 10/10 — one of which she believed broke her foot.

“It wasn’t really hurting that much at the time, it just hurt for a split second,” she insisted. “When you stub your toe and you hold your foot it’s okay, you get over it. So I just continued.”

But the next morning, when she tried to walk on her foot, she knew something was wrong.

She went to Sunderland General Hospital on Monday, March 3, and an X-ray showed she had broken her fourth metatarsal bone and suffered ligament damage, meaning she has to wear a medical boot for six weeks.

“The pain was unbelievable,” Cave said. “I obviously wasn’t expecting to break my foot.”

She was too embarrassed to tell her doctors that she had intentionally dropped the items on her foot, but is sure that’s what did it.

“I’ve got a feeling it was the suitcase or the fan that broke my foot, the heavier objects. But then again, the door stopper did actually feel like it hit a bone,” Cave said.

Cave admitted that her “more sensible” cousin did not partake in the foolishness, but did get a good laugh out it all.

“They’d normally call me the crazy one out of our group of girls, so I guess I’m just the entertainer, but not in a very good way, unfortunately,” Cave said.

However, this will be the last time Cave will be entertaining her friends with a TikTok video.

“I’ve definitely learned my lesson. I’ll not be doing any more challenges, not at all,” she said. “I’m very embarrassed.”

“All the bruising is moving upwards into my toes, so it’s not very pleasant to look at now. I was scared it would do permanent damage. Honestly, I never thought it would lead to anything like that.”

Although she didn’t admit what happened to her doctors, she’s sharing her story in hopes that she can dissuade someone from attempting a potentially harmful or dangerous act just to be funny.

After being contacted about the trend, TikTok removed the videos for breaching community guidelines and claim to have blocked hashtags and search terms relating to the trend, Kennedy News reported.