Chimp Attack Victim Pictures: Carla Nash Before and After Photo Slideshow (2024)

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The accident occurred in the Stamford home of her friend, Sandra Herold, who was the owner of the chimpanzee. Nash approached Travis, and Travis uncharacteristically attacked. According to medics, Nash's hair had been ripped out, her eyes injured, and hands disfigured.

Nash, now in her late 60s, spends her time listening to audiobooks and music, but she is still blind from the attack. She may not have lost her life, but the woman she was is all but gone — she even wears another person's face entirely.

Herold speculated that Travis 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 her face to get the chimp's attention.

Because when you look back, Kevin Nash tearing his quad in July 2002 altered the course of multiple things in the WWE. So I've always wondered what the rest of 2002 and beyond would have looked like had Nash not gotten injured.

She also suffered brain damage, possible blindness and several broken bones in her face from the brutal mauling, which shocked even hardened medical pros.

In February, 2009, 14-year-old chimpanzee Travis attacked Charla Nash, a friend of the woman who “owned” him. He tore off her nose, ears and hands, and blinded her as his owner, Sandra Herold, frantically beat him, stabbed him and called the police. When they arrived at her home in Connecticut, they shot Travis dead.

The strength of one chimpanzee is estimated to be equivalent to the strength of 5 men.

After a 200-pound chimp mauled off parts of her face and hands, leaving her permanently blind, Charla Nash achieved the unthinkable by undergoing a successful face transplant about five years ago.

The remains were cremated at All Pets Crematory in Stamford on February 25, 2009.

Charla Nash, 57, now lives in a nursing home outside of Boston. She had gone to Herold's home on the day of the attack to help lure Herold's 200-pound chimpanzee, Travis, back into her home. But the animal went berserk and ripped off Nash's nose, lips, eyelids and hands before being shot to death by a police officer.