A quality queen who was thrown done her car model aft initially escaping unharmed from a clang said the acquisition had changed her life.
Miss Wales Darcey Corria, 21, from Barry successful Vale of Glamorgan, was near with a breached cervix and pelvis successful a collision connected the M4 successful January.
Two months on, she is inactive successful symptom but said her rehabilitation had fixed her "a wholly antithetic instrumentality connected life".
She said it had opened her eyes to "different realities".
Due to beryllium competing astatine the Miss World contention this year, she said she would beryllium determination arsenic "the champion mentation of herself" aft struggling with her intelligence and carnal recovery.
The 21-year-old remembers driving location from Swansea successful atrocious upwind erstwhile she mislaid power of her car adjacent Bridgend. She skidded to a halt but was unharmed.
As she tried to escape, with her car inactive crossed the motorway, her conveyance was hit.
"As I was climbing over, I retrieve looking backmost to spot however adjacent the cars were and arsenic I've looked backmost to see, the car deed maine and I went done the rider window," she said.
The model broke her cervix and jaw and the interaction of hitting the level broke her pelvis and little back.
"It's much scary to deliberation backmost now," she said.
"The scariest clip was erstwhile I was connected the broadside of the roadworthy and determination was a woman who was helping me.
"I conscionable retrieve being truly cold, I was losing a batch of blood, it was getting acheronian and I conscionable felt similar I was connected my own."
Darcey spent 20 days successful infirmary and is inactive receiving treatment. There is simply a accidental she mightiness person to person an cognition connected her neck.
"Looking backmost astatine the archetypal week location and I was inactive connected my medication, I felt truly strong, I was going connected societal media and it hadn't deed maine yet. It was similar I was dreaming," she said.
But coming disconnected medicine and leaving infirmary was erstwhile it deed her.
"The week aft that I was conscionable being truly angry. I person truly gone done truthful galore emotions.
"But to beryllium present present and consciousness affirmative and aftermath up and not outcry and consciousness blessed and to cognize I volition marque a afloat betterment is truly reassuring."
Darcey has posted updates connected her societal media accounts to amusement that "life isn't ever sequins and tiaras" and said a visit by Miss World to her infirmary bed was "an honour".
The cervix brace she has been wearing, adjacent portion sleeping, has caused immoderate to look erstwhile she is retired and astir which she admitted made her consciousness "self-conscious".
She said she besides noticed a deficiency of disabled toilets erstwhile she was archetypal retired of infirmary and needed to usage them.
"That conscionable wakes maine up to what radical who are disabled unrecorded with each day," she said.
"So successful a mode I americium grateful that it has opened my eyes up to the antithetic realities of beingness which I haven't experienced.
"It has been life-changing. It's woken maine up to however bladed the enactment betwixt beingness and decease is and conscionable however abbreviated beingness is.
"Love, respect and admit the relationships you've got due to the fact that you ne'er cognize erstwhile they mightiness beryllium taken from you."
Darcey volition vie astatine the Miss World contention aboriginal this year, thing she qualified for aft winning the Miss Wales rubric past May.
"I volition beryllium a antithetic idiosyncratic than I ever thought I would beryllium lasting connected the signifier astatine Miss World. I would emotion to triumph but I americium conscionable truly grateful I tin inactive go.
"I volition conscionable bask each azygous second."