Mum of ‘spiked’ daughter, 18, says she ‘looked like she was in The Exorcist’

WARNING – DISTRESSING VIDEO: Millie Taplin, from Southend, Essex, was on her first night out since turning 18 when a man offered her a drink at a club, and she was soon unable to walk or talk

A mum who filmed her teenage daughter’s seizures after her drink was ‘spiked’ compared the teenager’s reaction to like something ‘from the Exorcist’.

Millie Taplin, 18, clawed the air and looked “possessed” after someone slipped an unidentified drug into her glass on her first legal night out.

A man had offered her a drink, telling her “try this”, and she was soon rushed to A&E, where doctors suspected she had been given two drugs – “one to paralyse and one to knock her out”, said her distraught mum Claire.

Claire has shared harrowing video of Millie writhing on a hospital bed with her eyes wide open, jaw clenched and fingers bent like “claws”.

NHS worker Claire told The Daily Mail : “Honestly, I thought I’d walked into a scene from the horror film, The Exorcist.

“I stood thinking, “Oh my god, what is this? What’s she been given?” ’ says Claire, a mum of four.

“Her hands were clawed, her jaw was clenched and her face so distorted she looked possessed.

“I’d never seen anything as horrific as this in my life. I didn’t even know what drug could do that.”

The mum told the Mirror: “As disturbing as it is, if that saves one girl, just one, then it’s worth sharing. Nothing can prepare you to see that.

“It’s just absolutely horrendous. She looked possessed.

“I was numb. I was looking at her and thought, ‘what the hell have they given her’, because I’ve never seen anything like it in my life.

“She was completely frozen, her hands were like claws.”

Millie and a group of friends were at the Moo Moo nightclub in Southend when a man, who was with a group of people she knew, offered her a vodka and lemonade drink and said “try this”.

She said it was the only drink she hadn’t purchased herself during the night out, and began to feel unwell about five to ten minutes later.

Millie said: “I had a couple of sips of the drink and went to the smoking area. I came back and felt like I’d drunk too much, and then I went outside to be sick.”

She soon was unable to speak or walk and lost control of her legs and hands.

Mum Claire added: “She took two sips and she didn’t like it because it was really strong. Within five or ten minutes she felt sick, she wanted to go outside.

“She said, ‘I’ve been spiked’. She knew she wasn’t feeling drunk, she knew it wasn’t right.

“She was sick and she couldn’t see, she couldn’t walk.”

Millie’s friends called her older sister Sadie, 28, and together they carried her into a car and drove her to A&E in the early hours of Sunday morning.

Claire said: “I got there at 1.30am, the video shows what I was greeted with. I was just blown away.

“I thought long and hard about posting [the video]. You always hear about people being spiked but you never see the reality of it, so I posted it.”

Millie added: “I knew everything going on. I could reply to people in my head but I couldn’t get it out.

“It was really scary. In my head I was there but in my body I wasn’t. I’ve never felt like that.

“The doctors were really supportive and trying to calm me down. I was in such a state when I arrived. I was so scared.

“I don’t ever want to go through that again. It was horrible.”

Millie was in that state for about three to four hours, her mum said, and was discharged from hospital that morning.

An Essex Police spokesman said: “We are investigating after we received a report of a woman having a drink spiked at a nightclub in Southend.

“It is reported that an 18-year-old woman had taken ill outside a venue in Warrior Square.

“The report was made to us at 3.30am on Sunday 1 August. The woman was taken to hospital for assessment.

“No arrests have been made and our enquiries are ongoing.”

Anyone with information is asked to contact police.

A spokesman for Moo Moo said: “We urge all customers to be present when their drink is ordered and that they do not leave it unattended.

“The alleged drink spiked appears to have been accepted from a person known to the lady affected and whilst it was not reported to us at the time, we are assisting the police who are dealing with the matter.”