Rachel Zoe’s husband says he had to let their 9-year-old son fall 30 feet from a ski lift because he couldn’t breathe

• Rachel Zoe and her husband Rodger Berman discussed their son's skiing accident on their podcast.
• Skyler wasn't able to sit on the lift, so he dangled from the air as his father held him up.
• But Berman said he had to drop Skyler 30 feet because his ski gear was strangling him.
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Rachel Zoe and Rodger Berman revealed new information about their son's December skiing accident on Tuesday's episode of their Apple podcast, "Work For Us with Rachel Zoe and Rodger Berman."

In December, Zoe said that her 9-year-old son Skyler fell from a ski lift during a trip to Aspen, Colorado. Zoe initially said on her Instagram Story after the incident that the fall was 40 feet, but on the podcast, the couple said it was closer to 30 feet, which is the equivalent of three stories.

The incident occurred when Berman, Skyler, and the couple's other son Kaius were trying to sit down on a ski lift with their ski instructor, Scott.

Initial reports suggested Skyler fell off the lift, but Berman shared on the podcast that Skyler was never actually sitting on it because the seat was too high.

"Skyler never fell out of a ski lift," Berman said. "He never got on the ski lift."

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"It pushed him forward," Berman said. "He started slipping forward."

Berman said he and Scott immediately grabbed Skyler to prevent him from being run over by the ski lift.

Berman said he then tried to get the operators to stop the ski lift, but it didn't stop. He said he and Scott each held one of Skyler's arms as the ski lift continued to rise, adding that it finally stopped when their seat was about 30 feet above the ground.

Scott and Berman tried to get Skyler back into the chair, according to Berman, but they couldn't do it from their sitting position.

"We're up there literally holding onto Skyler for dear life," Berman said. "I don't know how long it actually was, but it felt like forever."

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Berman said that Scott managed to kick his ski off and then use his boot to remove Skyler's left ski, so he wouldn't injure himself on his skis if he fell. Skyler kicked his own right ski off, according to Berman.

The couple shared that Luis Yllanes, who Zoe referred to as their "hero," saw Skyler was in danger of falling while snowboarding and grabbed a mat for him to land on if he fell.

Berman said he and Scott didn't want to drop Skyler even though there was a mat - until Kaius noticed Skyler's ski gear was "strangling" him.

"Kauis turned to me and said, 'Daddy, daddy, Skyler can't breathe,'" Berman said on the podcast.

According to Berman, they immediately let him go and Skyler fell onto the mat, preventing him from sustaining serious injuries.

Skyler has since made a full recovery and he even made an appearance on the podcast episode, assuring listeners he was doing well and wasn't afraid to ski.

"I'm totally fine," Skyler said on the podcast. "I felt like I was gonna be okay when I was hanging from the chair lift because I knew that there was snow."

"It looked pretty high," he said. "If I landed on any part other than my neck, I didn't think it would be fatal."

"Thank you to everyone that called my mom and sent her stuff to see if I was okay and just a lot of thanks to Luis," he said.

"I'm not scared to ski," Skyler went on to say. "I'm not one of those people who get hurt and never do it again. Get back on the saddle as some people say."

Zoe and Berman did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.