Influencer 'pays woman who can’t swim £15' to jump in lake and walks off laughing as she asks for help

Kick streamer Natalie Reynolds has been accused of convincing a stranger who allegedly could not swim to dive into a lake in Texas.

The video shared on Kick appeared to show the US-based influencer walking away as the woman cried out for help.

Reynolds - who has 4.8 million subscribers on YouTube - reportedly paid the woman $20 (£15) to jump into the water to help her find an RFID scanner at Paul 'Ice Poseidon's' ongoing 'Scavenger Hunt' event.

She said: "Do you know where the RFID scanner is? Because I'm trying to find this RFID scanner and I have to kayak.

"Ice Poseidon told me you swim in the water.

"You should jump in the water right now and should start swimming to find it.

"Would you do that? You just jump in the water to find it for me. I'll give you 20 bucks. Yeah, that's a good deal."

The incident was live-streamed at Lady Bird lake in Austin, Texas, on Wednesday (29 May).

After the woman had jumped in and was struggling, Reynolds said: "You said you wanted to swim!" to which the woman in the water replied: "You told me to jump in."

According to Sportskeeda, the 25-year-old influencer was reportedly asked to leave the premise.

Reynolds said she was not able to help the woman, explaining: "Dude, I can't help her! They told me to leave.

"They told me I can't film. Wait, is that actually really bad? She wanted to jump in! She wanted to skinny-dip with me.

"She wanted me to get naked. If she's really that mentally ill, she shouldn't be by the water in the first place! I didn't know."

The video then ends with Reynolds and her friends driving away from the scene as a fire truck pulls in.

Commenting on the clip, one viewer said: "So they walked away instead of pulling her out of the lake?"

"I'm not sure I can find the words to explain how I feel over this," another added.

"All I’m saying, if I can’t swim my ass is not jumping in the water," someone else said.

Reynolds later defended herself in another stream, claiming she left at the instruction of her team and that it was the woman who first approached her and dared her to jump in the water.

She also said the incident would be 'forgotten about' in a week.

LADbible Group has contacted Natalie Reynolds, the Austin Fire Department and the Austin Police Department for comment.