Georgia Love has come under fire after admitting she called 911 to help her locate her lost phone in New York.
The former Bachelorette star, 35, took to Instagram on Sunday to detail her extraordinary ordeal after she left her iPhone in an Uber in Manhattan.
Georgia, who travelled to the U.S. to be with her friends on New Year’s, revealed the unbelievable way she managed to get her phone back after losing it in the city.
She explained she lost her phone in an Uber but the driver couldn’t find it, leading her to track it down in Queens using Find My iPhone.
However, fans were left distracted by one detail of her story, in which she admitted she called 911 during her hunt for her phone after already filing a police report.
Her followers were quick to take to the comments section to slam her for using the emergency hotline to find her missing phone.
Georgia Love has come under fire after admitting she called 911 after losing her phone in New York in a sensational story
One wrote: ‘You actually called 911 for your mobile?,’ while another said: ‘Wait… you called 911 for a missing phone? Did I miss something?’
A third commented: ‘Um calling 911 about a missing phone…’
Another added: ‘Wow – I didn’t think 911 was for finding phones (I’m sure it’s normally not). I would have just bought a new one and carried on with my holiday! Good thing you found it.’
However, others fans flocked to her defence as they praised her for her ‘determination’ and told her how lucky she was to have actually found her phone.
One penned: ‘This story deserves to be a movie, or at least a Seinfeld episode! What a rollercoaster. So glad you got your phone back!’
Another commented: ‘Oh my goodness you are so so lucky to have found it,’ a third shared: ‘NYC scavenger hunt. They’ll start selling this as an escape room!’
A fourth wrote: ‘No words. That’s part hilarious part mortifying! The courage, the determination and then the celebration!!’
While another added: ‘You got an IPHONE BACK IN NEW YORK.. This is UNHEARD OF!!! The gods are with you, get a lottery ticket gorgeous.’
The former Bachelorette star (pictured with her friend Abir), 35, took to Instagram on Sunday to detail her extraordinary ordeal after she lost her iPhone in an Uber in Manhattan
Georgia detailed the ordeal in a lengthy Instagram video in the style of the ‘put a finger down’ challenge, where you put a finger down when you’ve done the thing in question.
She kicked off the video by saying: ‘Put a finger down if you left your phone in an Uber in Manhattan and didn’t realise until you got inside and then couldn’t contact the Uber driver because you booked it on your phone and your phone was in the Uber.
‘You’re by yourself so you had to wait until the morning until you could use your friend’s phone to go on Find My iPhone and it was in a random location north of Manhattan where you’ve never been.’
Georgia then detailed how she travelled to an eight-storey car park in a bid to find her phone, but to no avail, leading her to once again start tracking her phone.
‘So you go there because you have no way of finding it otherwise and you get there and it’s an eight-level car park where there’s no way you’ll ever be able to find it in there,’ she went on.
‘So you start tracking it again and it’s actually moved since then and starts going across Manhattan into Queens.
‘You go home, you use your friend’s phone, you finally get into your Uber account through his phone and contact the Uber driver. He’s in Queens, amazing, it’s still in the car.
‘You call the Uber driver, he says he can’t find it anywhere, you make him go on FaceTime and search the car with him because you don’t believe it’s not actually there because he’s in Queens and the phone is in Queens and that’s too much of a coincidence.
Fans were left distracted by one detail as she admitted she called 911 during her hunt for her phone after already filing a police report (she is pictured with Abir hunting down her phone)
‘But then you ask for his location, and his location is actually in a completely different part of Queens than where your phone says it is.’
Georgia then filed a report at the police station, but after they told her it could take a week for anything to come to fruition, she decided to hunt it down herself.
She explained: ‘So you go to the local police station, you file a report for the missing item. They say there’s nothing that can really be done until after I’ve left because it’s going to take a week.
‘Then you decide to just go to the location where the phone is because it’s been there for a few hours now.
‘You get a Long Island train out to Flushing in Queens and you start walking the streets and realise you can’t just go and knock on random doors.’
However, after realising it wasn’t safe or sensible to knock on ‘random’ doors in the area, she then called emergency hotline 911 and got the police to help her.
‘You call 911 and you get local police to come out there with you. You wait out in -5C [temperatures] for an hour-and-a-half on the side of the road,’ she continued.
‘You find a New York City fire department station where you can go in and write some notes.
Georgia has been living it up in New York with her friends in recent days as they all rang in the New Year together
‘You write your friend’s number down on the notes and put it on the doors and cars near around where the location is pinging so if they find it in the morning they can give you a call.
‘You start to leave and then the police turn up, they knock on some doors and say there’s absolutely no way we’re going to find it.’
In a remarkable twist, they managed to track down her phone while door-knocking and though it was damaged, Georgia managed to get it back.
She concluded: ‘But the third door they knock on, the guy says ”yes, I found it today, it was thrown in a garbage can and I saw it ping off the side so I picked it up and here it is”.
‘So you get your phone back and you have to take 24 hours to get it repaired but then you got it done and didn’t die.’
Georgia has been living it up in New York with her friends in recent days as they all rang in the New Year together.
She has been busy documenting her trip on social media and took to Instagram to share some fun-filled moments from New Year’s Eve.
One video showed a packed New York bar with revellers eagerly counting down the seconds to 2025 as she rang in 2025 with her close friends.
Her husband Lee Elliot (both pictured in May 2022) has remained in Sydney during her holiday stateside, leading to rumours of a split between the couple – which she has since denied
Her husband Lee Elliot has remained in Sydney during her holiday stateside, leading to rumours of a split between the couple.
They spent Christmas apart before Georgia jetted off to New York on Boxing Day, adding to speculation over recent months that their marriage might be in trouble.
However, Georgia has since broken her silence on the ongoing speculation about her relationship with Lee.
She denied the rumours and insisted she and Lee are very much still together while replying to fans’ questions on social media.
When one fan asked her where Lee was, she replied: ‘He’s at home, I’m here visiting my friend. Incredibly tired of this question.’
Georgia had previously clarified that she and Lee are still together despite not being seen together in months.
‘We didn’t [split], actually. Best to stop speculating, least of all on my own page,’ she said on social media.
‘If I had anything to tell you all, I would do so myself.’
Daily Mail Australia has reached out to Georgia and Lee on multiple occasions regarding the status of their relationship. Neither have responded.
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