She's just laying down on the porch.
She might have gotten dizzy, sat down, and passed out. She likely tried to take a step, and fell backwards, sitting down hard. Then rolled over, passed out.
If there is indeed a mark on her butt from the screen door, then she fell right where she is, and then rolled over on the porch.
The point is, she did not fall -down the steps- as widely reported early on....unless there are pictures of her on the ground that we haven't seen.
Unless we are prepared to believe that she fell down the steps and passed out on the ground, then went back up the steps later and passed out again up on the porch.
Then again, who can tell what in this cockamamie case???
Can't handle it in my middle years, but I have been shitfaced to the nth degree a time or two in my life.
I can see myself sitting on the porch and then laying on the porch because it felt as if all of the earth's gravitational pull was focused on me. (Which is why I never made a good drunk-I hate that feeling)
Well, I think when people say she "fell down the steps", they mean she fell ON the steps, And when they say a photo shows her laying on the ground, they really mean "outside", as opposed to inside the house on the floor.
I still don't think she just sat down. Perhaps she spilled the stuff out of her purse and was bending over to pick it up, lost her balance/got dizzy from a bent-over position, and then just "let go" and fell the rest of the way. There's one photo showing her prone, on her side, with her legs sort of draped down the steps. It may be that at that point she extended her legs prepatory to trying to get up.
A 12:37 photo shows she's lying on the back stoop; she fell, according to Ekstrand. Her elbow is dusted and scraped, and her ankle is cut and bleeding.Newsweek Article
If she fell while going DOWN the steps, she most likely would have fallen forward toward the ground, not backwards toward the porch. When going down steps, the propensity is to fall forward, not backward. Maybe she was going back UP the steps when she fell. That would explain her being sprawled across the steps. Since there's a photo of her lying on the porch and one of her lying sprawled across the steps, head on or toward the porch, maybe she fell TWICE.