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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 - 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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