*Warning: Readers may find the pics below disturbing.
In Feb 2009, 55 year old Charla Nash was viciously attacked by her friend Sandra Herold's pet chimp Travis. Travis had been living with Sandra as a pet. She treated the chimp like a child. The attack happened when Sandra called Charla to help with Travis, but when Charla arrived at Sandra's house that night, Travis turned on her.
The animal broke most of the bones in her face and ripped off her hands, nose, lips and eyelids during the vicious assault in Stamford, Connecticut. Doctors removed her eyes due to an infection, and only recently did she learn she'll no longer be able to see.
A large part of her scalp is missing, she only has one thumb and is fed fluids through a straw in a hole in her face specially created by doctors.
Charla marked her 56th birthday by speaking about the incident for the first time, by appearing on The Oprah Winfrey Show yesterday Wednesday 11th 2009. She normally wears a veil in front of her face to cover her injuries but agreed to lift it on the programme.
"People are going to say what they're going to say," she said. "I need to move forward and get better and stronger." She added: "I'm the one who has to look like this. Not them. So it doesn't matter what they say."
Now brace yourselves...and remember there was a warning sign at the beginning of this post....
Charla Nash before the attack
Charla after the attack
The police shot Travis dead after the attack on Charla.
Charla is suing Sandra for $50m over the chimp attack.
What a tragic thing to happen to her. May God give her the strength she needs to cope with this.
JISOS!!!!!
ReplyDeleteVery scary, may God save this world, the friend needs to be jailed not sued, what the chimpazee did is evil.
ReplyDeleteObara Jesus!!!! I read about this when it happened. OMG!!!! And am here worrying about the wrong things. God give her the strength to deal with this.
ReplyDeletecrazy bitch. why would you have a chimp as a pet. gosh im so angry.
ReplyDeletenow this lady has to live with this. the owner of the animal should be locked up.
God be with this lady and give her the strength she needs. Amen
Linda thanks for sharing but this is horrific. I don't think I can keep a pet apart from a parrot that gossips too much...
ReplyDeleteyes i was watching oprah the other day and i saw this woman....i cried cuz her story is really touching...its really funny how life works......
ReplyDeleteBless her heart,she must be a very strong person.It certainly puts things in perspective because most of us have nothing to complain about.If i were her friend who owned the chimp,i would spend the rest of my life trying to redeem myself and raise money for Charla.May God continue to give her courage and strength.
ReplyDeleteOMG that is a horrible thing. Hope she's able to get a face transplant.
ReplyDeleteAll these people that will be having wild animals as pets. A wild animal will always be a wild animal, that instinct never goes away. That's why i respected myself and got an 18 lb small dog, and even then he has nipped me one day when i tried to take a corn cob he was eating. That thing hurt for a whole week and he didn't even break skin. No oh! This is just craziness.
ReplyDeleteAt least she doesn't have to see what she looks like, abi. God abeg o!
When you want to complain about how terrible your life is remember this woman and thank God for your life.
ReplyDeleteFather Lord i pray for this woman.I pray you strength her, show urself strong in her life.
Father lord thank you for all that i am..I am sorry for being ungrateful!!forgive me lord.
Father lord i pray for anybody reading this including the owner of this blog, Lord i pray that you shall be with everyone of them...order their footsteps in your path o Lord and do not let any evil come near any of us.
This is my prayer!!!ah!!my heart bleeds
OMG!!!! This is very sad
ReplyDeleteLinda girl, I saw it on Oprah, it's a different thing when you see it on TV, and then on a blog. Can you please take them down?
ReplyDeleteSee why I hate having animals around.
ReplyDeleteI hope she sues that friend of hers successfully but it is just sad that no amount of money will be able to get her face back to normal.
.... and we ladies will stay complaining about how my nose is too large, i have uneven skin tone, my eyes are not wide enough??? GOD HELP US ALL.
ReplyDeleteMay God continue to give her strength!
OMG!! It's worse than I saw on sky news. Feel sooo sori for her.
ReplyDeletethis is sad. very sad.but there must be something d plastic surgeons can do for her nau... her friend should pay up fast.
ReplyDeleteI will never complain about my "uneven skin tone" and relatively wide nose. God please be with Charla. THIS is why I don't keep animals in my house biko.
ReplyDeleteChei, this is serious o. This oyibo people sef, I don't know why they will have wild animal as a pet, and when the animal attacks, they start wondering why it did. Sey dey don forget say, d friendliness will only last for a little bit, before the animal will show its true colors(hissing).
ReplyDeleteThe only pet I can have is cat, dog, even that I dey manage ni. I remember when I was young, back in naija, we had this dog, that looked like it can eat a whole human being. People used to be so scared to come to our house back then. Everybody said, it was a lion, not a dog, that's just how scary the dog was. We eventually killed it sha. No offense PETA.