Former “MythBusters” host Jessi Combs, who died while trying to break the land-speed record in Oregon, made a motivational tweet being “a little crazy” days before the tragic accident.
“It may seem a little crazy to walk directly into the line of fire... those who are willing, are those who achieve great things,” she wrote on the social media website. It included a picture of her jet-car.
“People say I’m crazy. I say thank you,” she added.
Days after that, she posted another photo on Twitter, which would be her last.
Following the crash, her TV colleagues offered their condolences.
“Mythbusters” star Adam Savage wrote on Twitter, “I’m so so sad, Jessi Combs has been killed in a crash. She was a brilliant & top-notch builder, engineer, driver, fabricator, and science communicator, & strove every day to encourage others by her prodigious example. She was also a colleague, and we are lesser for her absence.”
On Wednesday, her boyfriend, Terry Madden, issued a lengthy statement on Instagram.
Her family also issued a statement following her passing.
“People that loved her and followed her became family, all bonded together by adventure and passion. Her fans adored her, and she lived to inspire them. Jessi’s most notable dream was to become the fastest woman on Earth, a dream she had been chasing since 2012. Combs was one of the rare dreamers with the bravery to turn those possibilities into reality, and she left this earth driving faster than any other woman in history,” her family said, according to the Autoblog report.