Emmie Sperandeo, the TikTok influencer, has no memory after horse fell on her in Arizona

A TikTok influencer with more than 1.5 million followers can’t remember her fame after being thrown from a horse at the Arizona ranch where she worked earlier this month.

Emmie Sperandeo, 27, documents her life on social media, showing her move from Florida to Arizona, where she moved to work with animals.

On May 15, Sperandeo was moving cattle on the ranch when the horse she was riding “spun and fell on top of her,” her sister said on a GoFundMe page set up to help her family pay her medical bills.

She held on to the horse and was whipped by the horse as it fell sideways. That made her head hit the ground,” her father, Mariano, said A-Z family.

At the time of the fall, she was still recovering from a concussion after being knocked off a horse last month – and had also broken a finger in the incident.

Mariano said that due to the most recent accident, his daughter has no memory of her fame and she can only remember things that happened between seven and 14 years ago. According to the GoFundMe page, Sperandeo fractured her skull in two places and was bleeding from her ears.

Sperandeo in her ICU bed surrounded by her family, she was taken out of intensive care on May 23

“It hit so hard that people could hear the impact of her head on the ground from 100 yards away…She’s a tough kid, but she’s got a long road ahead of her,” Mariano told the station.

The GoFundMe page says Sperandeo had stabilized by May 19 and regained consciousness for periods.

Her sister, Natalie, said on the crowdfunding page that Sperandeo has no memory of the accident or her career and she doesn’t know why people are writing to her.

Natalie said Sperandeo was still leaking cerebrospinal fluid as of Sunday and was hooked up to an IV and had to stay upright.

She has already started speech and physical therapy. On May 23, she left the ICU, her family said in a TikTok post. “Keep going our sweet cowgirl,” the post said.

“While Emmie is not out of the woods yet, it appears her condition is stable enough at this time to move her from ICU to the neurological ward where she will undergo both speech and physical therapy,” her family added .

Mariano told AZ Family that his daughter is no longer covered by his work-related health insurance due to her age. He said he didn’t know if she had personal insurance. “Virtually all of her income comes from social media efforts,” he said.

He explained that Sperandeo is currently documenting her travels between Arizona and Montana as a cattle rancher.

A screenshot of the TikTok video Sperandeo posted on May 15, the day of her accident

In April Sperandeo had an accident on a horse which resulted in a broken finger and concussion

Sperandeo continues @Emogoatmom on Instagram and @SteadyRein on TikTok

Her father, Mariano, said in an interview that he doesn’t know if his daughter has health insurance, he also said she has a long road to recovery

Sperandeo continues @Emogoatmom on Instagram and @SteadyRein on TikTok.

Mariano went on to say that she keeps several animals as pets, including a bison, which she is trying to relocate to Florida where Sperandeo is being treated. Her buffalo will be taken to Montana.

On her official website, Sperandeo said her love of making videos started when she was 13 and she got her first video camera, which led to her pursuing a college degree in production at the University of Florida. She has been riding horses since she was four years old.

“I now travel full time in my truck and travel trailer with a dog as my sidekick. I have gone coast to coast in the US several times. I let my curiosity and wanderlust guide the inspiration behind my work,” she writes.

In February, Sperandeo spoke about one of her adventures in the African nation of Namibia, where she worked on a ranch in 2022 in an interview with Outside Magazine. She explained that she was given the task of training a wild horse.

‘I don’t consider myself a horse trainer, but I have trained horses. And I’m always nervous before that first ride, just because you can prepare them as best you can, but it’s also a very unpredictable situation. It’s downright dangerous,” she said.

During one ride, Sperandeo said she patted the horse, Kibo, on the neck, causing the horse to buck and send her flying, breaking her tailbone.

She said she arranged for another ride on the Kibo the day before she flew home, which went without a hitch.

“I got on him again the day before I flew out because I didn’t want my last ride on him to be me getting hurt. It was one of those lessons that taught me that I can do really hard things,” she said.