Popular influencer explains how she got trapped in a hotel basement during Paris Fashion Week

How Alix Earle became trapped in a hotel basement in Paris

American social media celebrity Alix Earle is known as the Internet’s “It Girl”. She boasts more than 6 million followers on TikTok. She also has 3 million Instagram followers.

Born on 16 December 2000, the star is now 22 years of age and is widely famous for flaunting her wild years of education at the University of Miami.

In her newly launched podcast ‘Hot Mess with Alix Earle’, the influencer invites followers to listen in on a weekly recap of her life revealing all the in-depth, exclusive details outside of her popular TikToks.

Episode four titled ‘Earle Girls vs Paris’ sees the podcaster recording in Paris – starting the episode sitting in front of the Eiffel Tower with her younger sister.

Ashtin Earle is currently a 19-year-old student at Tulane University in New Orleans. While studying on her year abroad in Florence, Italy, she flew out to Paris to record a podcast episode with her sister.

The siblings speak about their crazy night out partying in Paris when they ended up staying out until around 4:30/5 a.m. before Ashtin Earle ended up home before her older sister.

Alix explains she traveled back to the hotel alone and was at the reception trying to get a new room key.

Taking the elevator up to her hotel room, Alix presses a button showing the figure ‘4’ with the hope of going to the fourth floor. Instead, the influencer notices she starts traveling downwards in the elevator when she should be going upwards. Earle soon realizes she had mistakenly pressed the figure minus four (-4) and was therefore taken down to the ‘dungeon’ of the hotel.

At first, she tried to travel back up to the lobby using the elevator buttons and her room key but nothing seemed to be working. As she started to panic alone in the basement, Alix Earle pulled out her phone to call for help – only to realize her device had run out of charge. Earle then recalls how she started to ball her eyes out crying, thinking: “Oh my god I’m going to sleep in the dungeon of this hotel in Paris.”

TikToker Alix Earle eventually made her way to safety

As the story is being told, Ashtin jokes her sister is so dramatic. But Alix argues back: “No, you don’t understand, there was nothing down there.”

Earle explains she was stuck in a “little white room” wondering to herself if this is a regular occurrence in the hotel with intoxicated girls. She joked: “Is this how they trap people?”

The sisters then reference the French action film series ‘Taken’, whereby Liam Neeson plays an ex-CIA officer who sets out to track down his teenage daughter her best friend after they are kidnapped by human traffickers while traveling in France during a vacation.

After calming herself down, Alix later turns the corner and finds some stairs that take her to an exit door – hoping to lead out from the hotel onto the streets of Paris.

However, the door doesn’t open completely and influencer Alix Earle is still trapped inside the hotel basement.

At this point, she recalls she was “freaking out” and just wanted to contact her younger sister who was probably sound asleep during the drama.

Determined, Alix Earle continued to walk up the stairs and soon found herself in the spa of the hotel – surrounded by the saunas and gymnasium but no staff. After traveling through the spa, she finds a front desk and another elevator. Hoping this will lead her to an exit, Alix is then taken up to the lobby and finds the regular elevator which eventually leads her to the hotel room.

Finally arriving at the room, she is shaking but relieved to have found her way back to her sister.

The traumatic experience didn’t stop the celebrity from rocking Paris Fashion Week

Once the panic is over, the social media stars order room service food and manage to stay up all night. She said she was filled with energy after “escaping from the dungeons in Paris.”

After staying awake until around 7 a.m., the next day Alix is woken up by her agent banging on the door to start her busy day.

The traumatic experience of being trapped in the Paris hotel basement didn’t stop the girls as they went on to party the following night in France.

Alix Earle attended the Miu Miu Womenswear S/S 2024 show as part of Paris Fashion Week at Palais d’Iena in October. The dramatic evening didn’t stop the TikToker from sporting a sexy stylish outfit at the event.

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