#CHIMPANZEE FACE EATAN OPRAH SKIN#

Nash said she didn’t remember anything from the attack and doesn’t want to. Nash’s family has filed a $50 million lawsuit against Herold, saying she was negligent and reckless for lacking the ability to control “a wild animal with violent propensities.” “I don’t want to wake up with nightmares.” “It’s like less for me to worry about if I don’t know,” she said. Nash said she doesn’t ask many questions about her injuries. It wasn’t until a couple of weeks ago, when an eye doctor told Nash she no longer had her eyes, that she realized she would never see again, she said. “It feels like just patches of tape or gauze or covering, covering my face.” “I know that I have my forehead,” Nash said. She said she doesn’t touch her face very often.

Nash told Winfrey that she is not in pain, but can’t breathe through her nose and has to eat through a straw. She remains in stable condition at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio. Police shot and killed the animal to stop the attack on Charla,and Nash has been hospitalized ever since. 16 when the animal’s owner, Sandra Herold, asked Nash, her friend and employee, to help lure the animal back into her house in Stamford, Conn. The chimpanzee ripped off Nash’s hands, nose, lips and eyelids on Feb. ” ”And there’s no time for that anyways because I need to heal, you know, not look backwards.”

#CHIMPANZEE FACE EATAN OPRAH SKIN#

She had a large scar near the bottom of her face and a large piece of skin where her nose had been.Ĭharla Nash said on Wednesday’s episode of “The Oprah Winfrey Show that …”I don’t even think about it,”. Winfrey removed Nash’s hat and veil to reveal her face, which was swollen and damaged beyond recognition. On the Oprah Winfrey show on Wednesday,the Connecticut woman who was attacked by a 200-pound chimpanzee revealed her heavily disfigured face to a nationwide audience.Īlthough she is blind and has to eat through a straw, she reports that she isn’t angry. Charla Nash.staying strong Nash Chmp attack victim surviving and strong!!!

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