Footage of mannequin Olivia Ponton breaking down in Paris’s Charles de Gaulle Airport has resurfaced, as soon as once more capturing the web’s consideration. In the clip, initially posted to TikTok in July, Ponton tearfully describes being misplaced and unable to search out her gate, saying “nothing works here.”

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The video, which racked up hundreds of thousands of views, was met with tons of of feedback from vacationers who’ve additionally struggled to navigate CDG’s notoriously complicated terminals.

Escape from the Paris airport

On July 16, Ponton—who’s rumored to be courting Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow— posted the footage to her Instagram and TikTok accounts, gaining 5.7 million views on the latter. Though she arrived early on the Charles de Gaulle Airport (CDG) in Paris, she was on solely three hours of sleep and couldn’t, for the lifetime of her, discover 2D.

“I’m in the Paris airport and I’m so f*cking lost and there are no signs and nothing makes sense,” she mentioned. “It keeps telling me to go to 2D, and 2D doesn’t exist, and nothing works here.”

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“See, it keeps telling me to go down these freaking stairs, but then when I come here, the train only says that it goes to M, L and K, and I need to go to f*cking D. What does that even mean?”

She then claimed to have been wandering across the airport in tears for half-hour after lacking her flight (“again”) by simply two.

“I can’t with this airport,” she concluded.

Later that very same day, she posted one other video, promising to clarify how she lastly made it dwelling from that gauntlet. Unfortunately, it doesn’t clarify what was up with 2D or how she discovered it; as a substitute, it covers how drained she was that day and the main points of her journey when she lastly obtained on a airplane.

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“At this point, you can see the tired in my eyes,” she mentioned. “You can tell that my brain was just not functioning.”

“A maze and a nightmare”

On Monday, X account @_MLFootball reposted Ponton’s unique video within the airport. Amid disappointment over Burrow’s toe harm, which can preserve him out of the sport for 3 months, the footage began spreading once more.

Both then and now, those that have navigated complicated airports had loads of sympathy to supply.

“CDG airport will definitely make you crash out,” wrote TikToker @coco18c.

“Girl I feel your pain in this video,” mentioned @jess.joyf on Instagram. “This place is the worst and the people in Paris and at CDG are not friendly.”

Even these fast to criticize the act of posting one’s crash out movies on-line hate the CDG airport extra.

“In all fairness, CDG airport is a maze and a nightmare—Multiple terminals, crazy transportation between gates, weird gates in the middle of nowhere on multiple levels, and the main language is French,” X consumer @State48Xer identified. “She’s a young girl and scared—cut her some slack.”

“Let’s be honest—Charles de Gaulle Airport is the devil’s a**hole of airports,” declared @Thebackmarker21.

The Daily Dot has reached out to Olivia Ponton for remark through Instagram.

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