Charla Nash talks about her chimpanzee attack on Oprah show
November 12th, 2009 - 7:38 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
Chicago, Nov 12 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Connecticut inhabitant Charla Nash who was attacked by a chimpanzee and is now severely disfigured has finally opened up and revealed her injuries on national television, in Oprah Winfrey’s show.
Charla Nash allowed Oprah Winfrey to take off her hat and veil when she came on Wednesday’s to her show. The attack happened in mid-February and has severely affected Charla Nash as now she is without her hands, nose, lips and sight. “I don’t ask a whole lot about my injuries… I know that I have my forehead,” she said. She now drinks her meals “with a straw through a small hole where her mouth used to be.”
I don’t even think about it,” Charla told Oprah. “And there’s no time for that anyways because I need to heal, you know, not look backwards. I want to get healthy. I don’t want to wake up with nightmares.”
On the show she talked about being blind, having to eat her meals through a straw and not being able to breathe through her nose. But despite it all, Nash is very positive as she said that she isn’t angry and is instead focused on healing, not looking back at what happened.
However she does have some regrets in life and surprisingly they are not about herself but about her daughter. She is not able to spend more time with her daughter, who is a high school senior, and not being able to help her pick out an exotic prom dress.
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November 12th, 2009 at 9:23 pm
The photo accompanying this article isn’t of Charla Nash.
November 12th, 2009 at 9:25 pm
The image you put up is NOT of Charla Nash! That is the 1st woman to have a face transplant in the US, Connie Culp….don’t you people check before posting things????
November 12th, 2009 at 9:48 pm
Your article about Charla Nash shows pictures of a different woman - that is not Charla Nash
November 17th, 2009 at 5:57 am
You people obviously did not watch the show, this is Charla Nash, she talked about her attack on the show and revealed her face, this is her!
November 17th, 2009 at 10:43 pm
Post #4 did you bother to look at the date that we made our comment? Guess what…they realized they messed up and put the correct image there. When 3 people say the same thing on the same date…good chance that the issue was resolved in the 5 days since they were posted! We aren’t idiots and we called the website out before you bothered to put your 2 cents in.