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NEW YORK - Charla Nash, the woman whose face was destroyed when she was mauled by her best friend's chimpanzee in February, appeared on "The Today Show" Monday morning, where she said the animal had gone on a rampage before.

“I always told [Sandra] I was afraid of him,” Nash said of the 200-pound Travis on "Today." “He was big. He wasn’t like a chimpanzee; he was like a gorilla. He was huge, very, very huge."

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NEW YORK - On Wednesday, Charla Nash revealed her gravely disfigured face on "The Oprah Winfrey Show," appearing on television for the first time since she sustained major injuries in a brutal chimpanzee attack in February.

In photos before the attack, she sports a wide smile, her eyes sparkling.

Not anymore. Nash lost her eyes, nose, and hands during a horrific 12-minute mauling by her friend's 200-pound pet chimpanzee, Travis. Now, Nash is blind, can't smell and must eat through a straw, she told Winfrey.

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NEW YORK - Attorneys for the owner of the chimp that violently attacked Charla Nash, disfiguring and blinding her, have argued that the incident should be treated as a workers' compensation claim, and nothing more.

Nash's family has filed a $50 million lawsuit against Sandra Herold, her friend and employer, who asked Nash to help lure the 200-pound chimpanzee, Travis, back into her Stamford, Conn. home on Feb. 16.

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NEW YORK - Charla Nash, who was mauled by a 200-pound chimpanzee in February, said she doesn't remember the vicious attack, nor does she want to.

"I want to get healthy," she said on Wednesday's episode of "The Oprah Winfrey Show." "I don't want to wake up with nightmares."

Nash, who is blind and has to eat through a straw, told Winfrey that she isn't angry.

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CHICAGO - Charla Nash, the Connecticut woman who was attacked by a 200-pound (90-kilogram) chimpanzee named Travis has revealed her horribly mangled face and says she's ready to heal and move forward.

On Wednesday's episode of "The Oprah Winfrey Show," Nash, 56, said she's starting to get stronger.

The animal ripped off Nash's hands, nose, lips and eyelids during the February 2009 attack. She's being treated at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio.

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DENVER - In an essay in the upcoming issue of "O, The Oprah Magazine," Susan Klebold, the mother of Columbine killer, Dylan Klebold, says she is "haunted by the horror and anguish" her son caused and didn't realize he was so disturbed.

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CHICAGO - Corrine Gehrls, a former flight attendant on Oprah Winfrey's private jet who says she was fired after she was accused of having sex during a flight in June, has filed a federal lawsuit denying the allegations.

The lawsuit filed Friday by Gehrls, 39, alleges that flight attendant Myron Gooch and Winfrey's goddaughter, Kirby Bumpus, made false and defamatory accusations to cause her to be fired.

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CHICAGO - Police have finally made an arrest in the Erin Andrews video peep hole scandal. An insurance man called "as regular a guy as you'll ever meet" was ordered back to California on Saturday to face charges that he stalked the ESPN reporter and videotaped her nude by aiming a cell phone camera through an altered peephole in her hotel room door.

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NEW YORK - Mackenzie Phillip's half brother, Tamberlane Phillips, lashed out at his family, comparing them to a "bowl of dog urine," after learning of the 10-year sexual affair between Mackenzie and his dad, pop superstar John Phillips of "The Mamas and Papas" fame.

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CHICAGO - Mackenzie Phillips, daughter of John Phillips of "The Mamas and The Papas" fame sat on Oprah's couch Wednesday and continued to drop the incest, sex and drug-fueled bombshells that have shaken the web this week.

First there was the decades-long sexual affair with her father that began when she was 19. Then there were the drug addiction admissions, including how her father taught her to roll joints and injected her with cocaine. And Mackenzie dropped another shocker on Oprah...the reason why she stopped having sex with her father.

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