Woman blinded by chimpanzee attack is not angry

A CONNECTICUT woman who was attacked by a 200lb chimpanzee revealed her badly disfigured face on television on Wednesday, saying she is blind and has to eat through a straw, but isn’t angry.

“I don’t even think about it,” Charla Nash said on an episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show. “And there’s no time for that anyways because I need to heal, you know, not look backwards.”

Winfrey removed Nash’s hat and veil to reveal her face, which was swollen and damaged beyond recognition. She had a large scar near the bottom of her face and a large piece of skin where her nose had been.

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