Wife Recalls Being Electrocuted with Husband in Hot Tub — and the Moment She Heard He ‘Didn’t Make It’

Lizzette Zambrano was in the water with her husband when they were electrocuted — here's what she remembers of the horrifying ordeal

Lizzette Zambrano was in the water with her husband when they were electrocuted in a hot tub — now she's opening up about what she remembers of the horrifying ordeal, which resulted in death of her husband, Jorge Guillen.

In a video shared by her attorney, Zambrano — who has filed a wrongful death lawsuit — said that on June 11, she and her husband decided to get in the hot tub after they saw that her son and cousin were in it.

"We just decided, 'Let’s go in there for a little bit.' We join them and when we get in and my cousin tells us, 'Ah, you just missed it. The bubbles just turned off,' " she recalled. "We said 'okay,' and we sat there with them for about maybe 10 minutes. They got bored and they ended up getting out."

Minutes later, the couple "felt the first electric shock."

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Zambrano said she went underwater and was "feeling that [the shock] over and over again."

She explained that the electric shocks felt "like a vibration from all over, from my head all the way to my toes [and] my fingertips."

"I remember clenching my fist so hard and at a point I bit my tongue. It paralyzes you. It completely takes control over your body," she added, sharing that it felt like it went on for "forever" and "got to a point where the shocks were so unbearable."

"I prayed to God, I told him, 'I'm yours.' In a sense I just let go, I guess. In a sense I stopped fighting," she added. "That's the last thing I remember in the hot tub.”

Zambrano was told that her uncle pulled her out of the tub and tried to rescue her husband, but his body was "towards the bottom of the hot tub."

"It was harder to get him because he's heavier, he's taller. And the electric shocks are just so strong and unbearable that people wouldn't last more than a few seconds in there," she said, noting that when they were both pulled from the water, neither of them had a pulse.

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The next thing Zambrano remembered from the incident was being in a hospital and feeling "really cold."

"My eyes are closed the whole time. But I begin to hear voices and it's the people working on me. At this point, I'm having a hard time breathing," she said. "I can't catch my breath. They're trying to intubate me. I'm feeling everything, you know."

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Zambrano recalled hearing people around her say, "Her husband didn’t make it."

However, she was unable to express her emotions at the moment. "As much as I wanted to just cry and break down, I couldn't because I knew that would affect my breathing. So I had to put it behind my mind in a sense and not think about it," she continued.

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Zambrano filed suit in El Paso County District Court against Casago LLC, the facilitator of the vacation rental. She alleged that she and Guillen were electrocuted by faulty wiring that sent an electrical current into the water and also claimed that staff did not help them.

Casago, LLC has denied responsibility, saying in a statement obtained by PEOPLE that they are “not involved in any management or maintenance of the resort."

In the aftermath of the incident, the couple's community has rallied around them, and a GoFundMe page created on behalf of the couple's families has raised over $57,000 as of Tuesday, June 25.

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