08 February 2024 , 12:41
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The video of two sisters trying to get into a house via a window had side-splitting consequences but there’s tragic family history behind the laughs and the reason they are both called Lisa.
The two women in the viral window video reveal why their tough past means they are both called Lisa even though they’re sisters.
If you haven’t seen the video of a woman getting stuck in a window as she tries to climb in, while being given a leg up by her sister - where have you been? The clip went viral after it was shared online and features Lisa, who is wearing a black strapless dress being given a leg up by her sister, who is also called Lisa.
As she manages to get her head and shoulders through the open top section of the window on the ground floor of her house, the rest of her body follows until she gets stuck upside down with her feet and ankles still outside. Unfortunately (or fortunately for the sake of hilarity), the top section of her dress is pulled down and Lisa is left hanging upside down and exposing her boobs.
The sisters had the nation laughing with their video (ITV1)Cue breathless laughter from her sister on the other side of the window. Lisa later revealed that she rushed home from the supermarket because she needed to go to the toilet and didn’t like to use the public ones. When she got back she realised her keys were inside the house. Thanks to this, Lisa also wet herself whilst hanging in the window and she said she had pee running down her neck, which can’t be seen in the clip, but which only added to her excruciating predicament at the time.
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Following the huge viral success of the brilliant video, the two ladies were asked to go on This Morning and media interest spiked. Both sisters took the attention in good nature and saw the funny side of the entire situation and why people loved it so much.
However they have also since revealed why they both have the same name, despite being ‘siblings’. Lisa Rowland, 46 (the woman who got stuck), has spoken about her tough past and how she was in and out of foster care as a child.
The two women have taken all the attention in their stride (ITV1)“I was an only child and [Lisa P’s] Mum took me in when I was six," Lisa told OK! "I became part of the family. I adore that woman. I don't think I'd be here now if it weren't for her.
“We've grown up together, we’ve had baths together, we've battered each other. If that doesn’t make us sisters I don’t know what does. Blood isn’t everything to me.”
Lisa is still in contact with her parents but says that her dad, who is “my world” didn’t have it easy as an Irish working man in the 80s trying to bring up children alone. Of her mum she is also sympathetic: “I love my mum. She had a hard life and back then people didn't get the help they should have. She didn't deal with her issues, but she made me a better mum to my children. There were times I couldn't be around her, but she’s trying her best now and I’m proud of her for that.”
Having grown up together, the girls, including 48 year old Lisa P’s girlfriend Nicole, 42, stuck together and they are now a solid trio facing the tribulations life throws at them with each other for support.
“We struggle, we’re single mums,” Lisa, who has five children - two with mental health issues and autism - says. “On that Wednesday, I was having a hard morning. I was like, ‘Is this my life?’ And on Wednesday night my life changed. If that doesn’t give someone a little bit of hope…”
It seems that the clip certainly has provided plenty of laughter worldwide and they’ve received messages from as far afield as India, Canada and Germany. But they’ve also given hope too.
Lisa, who wants to foster children at some point in the future, reveals that they’ve had messages from people in desperate situations who have found joy in their mishap. One woman had just lost her mother and never thought she’d laugh again until she saw their clip and another man dying in a hospice said it was the last time he would laugh.
Although life has been, and still is, difficult for the ladies, they want to use their new-found fame to help others and would love to work with mental health charities where they live in northeast London.
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