Chicago, Nov 12 (THAINDIAN NEWS) A woman who was mauled by a 200-pound chimpanzee has revealed her severely mangled face on ‘The Oprah Winfrey Show.” She came dressed very smartly in a skirt-jacket to the show and her face was completely covered with a veil. After some time she allowed Oprah to remove the veil, so that the world could see her face, which had literally, been eaten away by a pet 200-pound chimpanzee attack.

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.” She had a large scar near the bottom of her face and a large piece of skin where her nose had been. The chimpanzee ripped off Nash’s hands, nose, lips and eyelids and she has been in hospital since.

She remains in quiet a stable condition at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio. Charla Nash said that she didn’t remember anything from the attack, and doesn’t want to. “I want to get healthy. I don’t want to wake up with nightmares,” she said.

Doctors said that the only way she could get back to her normal life was with a face transplant.