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A video of a man pushing his girlfriend — hooked safely into a harness — off a Utah cliff, prompting her to purportedly scream, “I’m breaking up with you,” has gone viral online.

Jessica Powell stood for nearly 45 minutes on the edge of the canyon while her boyfriend Creighton Baird tried to convince her to step off the edge for a 400-foot pendulum swing, reports suggest. Over and over she repeats how much she doesn’t want to jump.

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Eventually, Baird leads her to the very edge of the cliff and just after assuring her he won’t push her, gives her a shove. As she’s falling, Powell yells that she’s ending the relationship and Baird collapses on the ground laughing.

“I just got dumped,” he says.

They didn’t actually break up that day, however, and Powell later thanked her boyfriend for helping her face her fears. Posted on Tuesday, the video of Powell being pushed has now been viewed more than three million times.

The pair was in the unnamed spot in Utah with several others to film a stunt for filmmaker Devin Graham, known for his viral videos, most of which feature people doing death-defying stunts. One video features people hurtling themselves into a body of water as “human slingshots.”

Graham, who spends hundreds of hours meticulously editing his videos, makes his money selling footage to corporations, he told Wired magazine.

A video of the entire stunt can be seen here:

A video titled “World’s Largest Rope Swing” posted last year has more than 16 million views on YouTube.