MIAMI – Brittany Clark’s heartbroken boyfriend revealed Friday that he initially thought she was joking when a massive alligator emerged from a Florida river and attacked her — for what felt like “forever.”
Clark’s arms were ripped off by the 13-foot beast Sunday during a hiking trip with her boyfriend Chance Allison and roommate Jayden Hernandez as they were in the Econlockhatchee River at Little Big Econ State Forest in Central Florida.
“For the first two seconds I thought ‘Is she joking?,” Allison, 30, told The Post.
“Once I realized that she wasn’t joking, I didn’t know what to do but to jump in and try to help. I tried to grab her.
“It felt like it went on forever but it was maybe 30 or 40 seconds.”
Allison desperately tried to free Clark from the gator as it sunk its jaws into the 31-year-old.
The “bad a–” bulldozer driver was rushed to hospital in an ambulance but died from the huge amount of blood she had lost.
Clark’s pal Hernandez previously revealed how the trio had joked about there being an alligator in the water before the attack when they saw bubbles.
Harrowing bodycam footage released on Thursday showed a Florida deputy’s desperate attempt to save Clark.
It showed the officer running through the brush and emerging at the sandy bank of the river.
Clark can be seen under a tent which Allison told The Post he used to protect her from the blistering Florida sunshine.
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Allison said that the couple knew there were gators out there but had gone swimming in the same spot before and “never, ever had issues”.
Reflecting on the moment his girlfriend was attacked, he said that it was “one of the scariest things ever to happen”.
“It definitely brought the nightmares for the first couple of nights.” he added.
“I’ve had an overwhelming amount of support from friends and family and so many strangers are reaching out, so I’m thankful for that, but it’s still just not right for this to happen.
“It shouldn’t have happened to her, she was such an amazing girl and she had so much ahead of her.
“I’m still in shock but I’m keeping it together.”
Allison, who runs his own company transporting dumpsters, is in the process of organizing a celebration of life for Clark.
“I’ll be making a Facebook post about that for all her friends to show up,” he said.
“It will be hard to find a venue big enough, I’m sure there are going to be hundreds of people there.”
Allison has also revealed that one of the last things Clark told him before she was taken to hospital was to look after her dog, Hokie.
The couple had taken the German Sheppard and Allison’s own pitbull mix dog, Bulma, along on the hike.
Allison has now taken in Hokie and Clark’s cat, Shady, to live with him and Bulma at his home.
