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Nov 11, 2009 · According to news reports, Sandra called Charla because Sandra's 14-year-old pet chimpanzee, Travis, escaped and she needed help getting him back inside. When Charla arrived, Travis savagely attacked her. Sandra called 911, and when police arrived, they found Charla in a devastating state.
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In 2009, Oprah sat down with Charla Nash, the Connecticut woman whose face was disfigured after she was violently attacked by her friend's pet chimpanzee. Charla opened up about her grueling daily journey back from near-death and shared the heartbreaking details of her life since the attack.
- 20 min
- Charla Nash and Sandra Herold’s Longtime Friendship
- Travis The Chimp’S Savage Assault on Charla Nash
- Charla Nash’s Lifetime of Recovery
Sandra Herold had recently suffered a pair of tragedies. In September 2000, the Herolds’ only child, Suzan, died after her car collided with a tree along an empty Virginia highway. Luckily, New York Magazinereported, Suzan’s infant daughter was unscathed — but Sandra Herold spiraled into depression and struggled to maintain a relationship with her ...
One February weekend in 2009, Sandra Herold and Charla Nash embarked on a rare outing, going to the Mohegan Sun Casino in Montville, Connecticut. Herold took her friend to the salon before they left — just in case, she joked, two eligible bachelors happened to appear. But when they returned on February 16, Herold came home to a highly agitated Trav...
When police arrived, they found Travis stalking the area, covered in blood. The officer fired several rounds into him, and Travis, bleeding, fled into the house. A trail of blood followed his path through the kitchen and bedroom, into his room where he died grasping his bedpost. Bits of Nash’s body littered the yard — flesh, fingers, and nearly hal...
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Nov 11, 2009 · A day in the life of Charla Nash, the woman who was mauled by a chimpanzee last Februrary. Charla is staying at a hospital in Cleveland, where every day she demonstrates a strong will to live.
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Nov 11, 2009 · Charla Nash says she wears a veil so as not to frighten anyone. By ABC News. November 11, 2009, 7:58 AM. Nov. 12, 2009 -- The woman whose face was disfigured after she was attacked by her friend's pet chimpanzee told Oprah Winfrey that she tries not to remember the incident.
