Popularized by the 2007 Rob Reiner film, “The Bucket List,” young and old alike have created their own list of things to do before they “kick the bucket.” For Laverne Everett, that list included skydiving and on her 80th birthday, Laverne Everett celebrated in style. Jumping out of a plane for her very first skydiving experience.
Released by her sister months after the event, the video depicting the 80-year-old Laverne Everett almost falling out of her harness has become a viral video sensation. During a May 29, 2012 interview Everett told Matt Lauer that she’s “not sorry I did it.” When Lauer asked Everett if this was a “bucket list thing,” the elderly daredevil acknowledged, “I guess you could call it that.”
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