"I thought someone had fireworks. You know like just little fireworks that you buy at the supermarket. I remember thinking what an idiot. Who does that at a concert?"
According to Channel Nine reporter Ross Coulthart,who interviewed the 19-year-old in Paris last week,the teenager then realised"in a second"that people were shooting at them.
After falling to the floor for several seconds,Ms Parkinson pulled herself back up and gambled on making it out of the concert hall,via a nearby barrier,where she was hit by a bullet that passed clean through her thigh.