Nash said she saw the chimpanzee throw large objects around his cage, including a desk and 55-gallon plastic drum, flash his teeth and pound the bars so violently his hands would bleed and the cage had to be rewelded.
In a telephone interview Wednesday night with The Associated Press, Nash said she repeatedly warned Herold that the primate was dangerous and could hurt someone. "I don't want to wake up with nightmares." Nash said she didn't remember anything from the attack and doesn't want to. She remains in stable condition at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio. The chimpanzee ripped off Nash's hands, nose, lips and eyelids. 16 attack occurred 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.
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She had a large scar near the bottom of her face and a large piece of skin where her nose had been. Winfrey removed Nash's hat and veil to reveal her face, which was swollen and damaged beyond recognition. chimp attack victim seeks $50M Police in US shoot chimp after it attacks woman man is cited for owning an endangered ape Family of Conn. "I don't even think about it," Charla Nash said on Wednesday's episode of "The Oprah Winfrey Show." "And there's no time for that anyways because I need to heal, you know, not look backwards." 19, 2003 file photo, Travis, an escaped chimpanzee, is coaxed into a waiting sport utility vehicle in downtown Stamford, Conn.
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