Charla Nash After Chimp Attack [Photo & VIDEO]
Charla Nash, the Connecticut woman who mauled by her friend’s 200-pound chimpanzee last February, revealed he horribly disfigured face on The Oprah Winfrey Show Wednesday.
WARNING: EXTREMELY GRAPHIC IMAGE AFTER THE JUMP!!!
Nash was critically injured on Feb. 16 when a chimpanzee owned by her friend, Sandra Herold, attacked her, ripping off her eyelids, nose and, lips. Police say Travis attacked Charla, when she arrived at Herold’s house to help lure the chimp back indoors. Earlier this year, Herold speculated that the chimp was being protective of her and attacked Nash because she had a different hairstyle, was driving a different car, and held a stuffed toy in front of his face to get his attention.
Charla is blind and has to eat through a straw, but the 55-year-old mother says she isn’t angry or in a pain — and she doesn’t want to remember the attack.
“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.”
Oprah removed Charla’s hat and veil to reveal a face swollen and damaged beyond recognition.
“I want to get healthy,” she said. “I don’t want to wake up with nightmares.”
Police shot and killed the animal. Nash has been hospitalized since. shremains in stable condition at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio. This is so heartbreaking…I was expecting her injuries to be severe — but wow. Thank God she’s alive.
Visit Oprah.com for an update on Charla’s condition….
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On November 12th 2009, Translator Chicago wrote:
Monkeys are monkeys. Even human beings when triggered can get out of control. I admire Charla Nash for her strength & courage to show herself out on national T.V. just to warn the people and tell her story. I’m hoping that she will be able to receive continuous love, support & concern for a long, long time.
On November 13th 2009, Ashley, the Accidental Olympian wrote:
The images are disturbing, and heart breaking, and of course I would NEVER want to say someone deserved to suffer like this… but on the other hand, I lack a certain amount of shock or sympathy.
This was a wild animal. In zoos, keepers are trained for years and years how to understand their animals and even in zoos they tend to keep a hefty distance between themselves and the animals, because they’re wild. Wild animals are unpredictable and therefore not safe to be kept by average untrained human beings.
I worry that the real moral of this story, the moral that regular untrained human beings should NEVER own or have close contact with wild animals is being lost.
People feel bad for the disfigured woman, but what about the chimp?
People want to blame the animal, but I blame the humans for making a poor choice and forcing both the animal, and the human to suffer undue pain.