In a separate incident, Travis' mother Suzy was shot and killed following an escape in 2001. Travis was born near Festus, Missouri, at Mike and Connie Braun Casey's compound, currently named the Missouri Chimpanzee Sanctuary. He had also appeared on The Maury Povich Show, The Man Show, and appeared in a television pilot that featured Sheryl Crow and Michael Moore. He was subsequently shot on the arrival of the police after trying to attack an officer.Īs an animal actor, Travis had appeared in several television commercials, including spots for Coca-Cola and Old Navy.

During the attack, Travis grievously mauled Nash, blinding her while severing her nose, ears, both hands and severely lacerating her face. In February 2009, Travis suddenly and viciously attacked Charla Nash, a friend of his owner. You know?”Īs someone who struggles with mental health, moving on, and letting things go, this spoke to me.Travis (1995 – February 16, 2009) was a male chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) who appeared in American television shows and commercials. “There’s no time for anything in the past. She wasn’t too nice to Charla and it’s basically her fault about the attack.Ĭharla said she can’t dwell on any of it. Backstory: Charla is discussing Travis (the chimp) & Sandra, the woman whom she worked for and who owned Travis. What stood out to me was Charla’s mental strength and the following quote. The story was repetitive at times but that doesn’t bug me. It was their love that carried her through the darkest days.”Ģ021 review: I was impressed that though the writing style wasn’t very strong, it was still pretty well done. I admire Charla for her perseverance & I hope she is doing better now than she was when this book was written.Ī Favourite Quote: “I got to know her family-brothers, Mike and Steve, and daughter, Briana-who stayed always close by her side. It’s not too descriptive/graphic (in my opinion I’m not bothered by mentions of blood & wounds). I was impressed by how well written it is. I did not find it bothering, though I am a sensitive reader but some of the images did kind of bother me and I didn’t like looking at them. The Woman Who Lost Her Face also features never-before-seen images of Charla and insight from the NBC News producers and reporters who covered the story.ģ stars & 3/10 hearts.

This in-depth account takes you inside the operating rooms and hospitals where medical history was made and includes new details about the chimpanzee who mauled Charla to the brink of death and the woman who raised the animal as her son. NBC News and Meredith Vieira have been covering the story since the life-altering attack, documenting Charla’s unfaltering spirit and the remarkable surgeries that not only kept her alive, but gave her a new face and, ultimately, restored her very humanity.įeaturing candid and exclusive interviews with Charla, her family, her doctors and the chimpanzee’s owner, The Woman Who Lost Her Face is an intimate look at Charla’s life before and after the attack. By her own doctors’ accounts, she never should have survived her injuries.Ĭharla’s story is one of incredible strength, fierce determination and cutting-edge medicine.

Viciously attacked by a chimpanzee in 2009, Charla Nash was left so severely disfigured that she no longer had eyes to see the world, hands to feel it or even a face to show it. “Through Charla I have learned that the will to survive is a powerful force and that human courage knows no bounds.” -NBC’s Meredith Vieira This enhanced eBook edition includes a video introduction from Meredith Vieira and more than 45 minutes of video interviews from NBC News.

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