The Vow: Real life story of the couple behind Hollywood movie'I do recognise the girl in the white dress.. I have no memory of how that girl feels': The real life story of the couple behind Hollywood movie The Vow. By. Jane Mulkerrins. Updated. 2. 2: 4. BST, 2. 1 January 2. When Krickitt Carpenter settles down to watch the video of her own wedding, she remembers nothing of that day. I do recognise the girl in the white dress walking down the aisle.

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She looks just like me, the 2. Krickitt, but I have no memory of how that girl feels,’ Krickitt, now 4. Just ten weeks after that day, a horrific. Krickitt in a coma for four months. When she awoke. she had no memory of the two years leading up to the accident. She. didn't even know who her husband was. Kim and Krickitt Carpenter had been driving from their home in Las Vegas, New Mexico to Phoenix, Arizona, to visit Krickitt’s parents for Thanksgiving.

Krickitt, who was in the driver’s seat, tried to swerve around a slow- moving lorry, when a truck following too closely on their tail hit the Carpenter’s car from behind, sending it rolling for a hundred feet and ripping off the roof. Scroll down for video. Marriage interrupted: Ten weeks after their wedding day, Kim and Krickitt Carpenter were driving from Las Vegas, New Mexico to Phoenix, Arizona when a truck following too closely crashed into them. Kim was bloodied and bruised, with broken ribs, a broken nose and severe lacerations. Krickitt, however, had to be cut out, unconscious, from the wreckage and airlifted to hospital. I knew nothing until I awoke from a coma almost four months later, with no idea where I was or what had happened,’ she says today.

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The head injuries Krickitt had sustained in the accident were so severe that at first she remembered nothing - not how to dress herself, brush her teeth, not even how to walk. But these skills were all stored in my long- term memory, so once I was shown how to do them in intensive therapy, they came flooding back,’ she says. Her short- term memory, however, was much more severely and permanently damaged. In fact, Krickitt’s memory had been wiped clean of the entire two years before the crash, the years in which she had met and married Kim. And 1. 8 years on, those memories have never been recovered.

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The nurses asked me what I could remember of my husband, but I told them “I’m not married,” she says.  ‘I could recall names of some previous boyfriends, but nothing of this man who had apparently not left my bedside for months.’Krickitt was a 2. Kim, then 2. 7 and a baseball coach. They had a whirlwind romance after meeting on the phone through the sports apparel company Krickitt was working for‘Not only did she not remember that we were married, but she didn’t even recognise me,’ says Kim, now 4.

I was devastated, of course, but I tried not to dwell on it, because I was just so glad she was alive.’ ‘And as a university baseball coach, I went into work mode,’ he says. I thought she may never remember me again, and even if she does, she may never want anything to do with me, but I was not going to leave until she had the consciousness to look me in the eye and tell it was over. Until then, I wasn’t going to give up on her.’ Kim’s determination to rehabilitate his young wife, who had been a talented gymnast before the accident, was not well received by Krickitt, whose head injuries has also caused some personality changes, making her angry, impatient and aggressive. Smashed: Kim was bloodied and bruised in the accident, with broken ribs, a broken nose and severe lacerations. Krickitt, however, had to be cut out, from the wreckage and airlifted to hospital‘I didn’t want him around, pushing me through arduous physical therapy. I was cross with him for trying to tell me what to do’ she admits.  ‘I tried to be civil to him because it was obvious he cared about it, but I had no feelings for him.’‘And I felt as if my role had changed from being a husband to being a father,’ says Kim.

I did push her in rehab. She was a former gymnast who used to be able to do backflips on a 4- inch beam, and now could barely stand up. She hated the therapy, and she hated me for making her do it. She kept telling me: ‘I don’t know you, go back to where you came from’.

We really didn’t get along.’The bickering and frustration was a very different story from just a few months earlier, when the couple were in the throes of a whirlwind romance. Krickitt was in a coma for four months. On awaking she had no idea where she was or what had happened nor even how to dress herself, brush her teeth, not even how to walk. Krickitt was a 2. Anaheim, southern California, while Kim, 2. New Mexico Highlands University, almost 1.

Kim called to place an order with Krickitt’s company for sports jackets for him and his fellow coaches. Shark Tank Season 5 Episode 27. There was a connection immediately,’ says Kim. And so I kept calling, ordering more jackets than one man could wear in a lifetime, and she would sent me little personal notes with all of my orders. She was so vibrant, bubbly and cheerful, her personality was just infectious.’Soon, the pair were speaking for hours on the phone after work each day. This was years before Skype, texting or Facebook, so we spoke using long- distance calling cards and wrote hundreds of letters. We knew so much about each other before we even met,’ says Krickitt. Kim's determination to rehabilitate his young wife was not well received by Krickitt, whose head injuries has also caused some personality changes, making her impatient and aggressive.

After six months Kim invited Krickitt to visit him in New Mexico. It was just like finally meeting my best friend,’ he says. The couple were soon flying to see each other every weekend, and that June, Kim proposed on a beach in southern California. They were married just three months later, in September. When I came round from the coma, I had no memory of this whirlwind romance,’ says Krickitt. My parents told me that I was married to this man, and they wouldn’t lie to me, so I knew that I must have loved him deeply. But I had no feelings for him at all, and as hard as I tried, I could not conjure up those feelings.’Walking away was just not an option though.

I had made my vows in front of my family and friends, to stay together, for good and for bad, in sickness and in health.’ Krickitt decided she had to learn to love this man again, however long it might take and however hard she might find it. The couple re- married three years after the accident but she wasn't ready for motherhood for another eight years. They've now been married for 1. Watch Expecting Mary Online Hulu.

Kim was of a similar mind. I had. made my vows to Krickitt and there was no way I would ever have. I knew the incredible woman she was. However angry she. I knew that I had to keep trying.’ When Krickitt was finally released from hospital, she returned to New Mexico with Kim, to a town she had no memory of, and where she knew no one, having only moved there when the couple had married a few short months earlier. Her short- term memory was so severely damaged, I would worry that she would get lost and not even be able to find my way home,’ says Kim.‘I felt as if I was playing house, playing at being married,’ Krickitt continues. I found it almost impossible to play the role of the wife I had been to Krickitt before the accident.

I couldn’t remember whether I used to cook a lot for him, what he liked for dinner, whether I used to make him a packed lunch to take to work. I didn’t know what sort of wife I had been.’Krickitt's lack of memory meant she had to learn to love Kim again. My heart didn't skip beats; I didn't feel swept off my feet. I would love to have felt that, but it isn't the truth - I made a choice to love him'‘But the hardest part was dealing with. I missed the way I used to. Krickitt was not handling things. I was suddenly very impatient, and my confidence was completely destroyed.

I had been a gymnast, and loved hiking and biking. Now, I was clumsy and child- like - I didn’t trust myself to even cycle along the road.