BOSTON -- The woman who narrowly escaped being run over by a subway train after she fell on Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority tracks last Friday said she is grateful that people were looking out for her safety and she's also humiliated.

"I am incredibly thankful that there are that many people who would do something," Sophia Hartdegen, 26, told WCVB-TV Tuesday. "I am incredibly thankful the driver was alert."

Hartdegen fell onto the Orange Line tracks at North Station Friday night after she had been drinking with co-workers at a party. She said she didn't think she was drunk when she walked to the 'T' stop after consuming four, 22-ounce beers.

Hartdegen, who was described by police as being intoxicated when she fell, said she did not recall feeling impaired. "I felt fine when I walked to the T," she said.

"I do not have drinking problem and nothing like this has ever happened before," Hartdegen told WCVB-TV.

"She doesn't feel like talking tonight. She is sort of stressed out. She is a very nice girl but she is embarrassed by the whole thing, I guess," said George Mourgis, Hartdegen's landlord. "She is happy she is alive … She said she almost died twice -- once with the train and once with the third rail."

Passengers who helped avert the tragedy added more detail Tuesday to how the incident unfolded.

Bill Lynch, of Holbrook, an usher at the Boston Garden, was waiting for a train when he saw Hartdegen fall into the pit.

He said that he started calling out to her.

"'Get up, Get up,' and she just fell into the middle of the tracks, the two tracks. There was just nothing else I felt I could do. I didn't know if she was living or dying at that point," Lynch said.

Lynch and other bystanders frantically waved their arms to alert the train operator.

"It was a hard thing to see," Lynch said. "I was trying to stop the train to get her attention."

He said that he could tell the operator was going to slow the train down.

"When she got there, I just pointed to the girl in the middle. Her head was covered (by the train), but when she got up, I couldn’t believe it. I said, 'Wow. That is incredible,'" Lynch said.

Lynch gives all the credit to the operator, Charice Lewis, who was able to stop the train in the nick of time -- saving the woman's life.

"I thanked the train driver for stopping, because if she didn't, she didn't have a chance," Lynch said.

Hartdegen said she is "traumatized by the near death experience," and is afraid to go out into public because she is humiliated. She said she plans to take a few days off from work to recuperate. Surprisingly, she only suffered a few bruises from the fall.

"I am still a bit in shock, but the kindness and quick thinking of all of those people who came together to save my life will forever have my thanks and gratitude," she said.

Lynch said he boarded the train to go home, but that he missed his stop because he was "too upset."