# Woman Shot by Husband Describes Forgiveness and Face Transplant - Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2118703693285453847 - Source account: [@aucllid](https://x.com/aucllid) - Source language: English - Duration: 2:33 - Published: 2026-11-06 - Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/47tHQUU6NvD3/en/woman-shot-by-husband-describes-forgiveness-and-face-transplant ## Transcript [0:04](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/47tHQUU6NvD3/en/woman-shot-by-husband-describes-forgiveness-and-face-transplant?t=4) Just take a breath. I still love my husband. [0:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/47tHQUU6NvD3/en/woman-shot-by-husband-describes-forgiveness-and-face-transplant?t=7) I, I can't talk about what happened. I'm not gonna say whether- Whether he meant to do it or not. [0:13](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/47tHQUU6NvD3/en/woman-shot-by-husband-describes-forgiveness-and-face-transplant?t=13) Yeah. Um, that's between me and him. Do you forgive him? [0:20](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/47tHQUU6NvD3/en/woman-shot-by-husband-describes-forgiveness-and-face-transplant?t=20) I forgive him the day he did it. I have to. How? How could you? [0:27](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/47tHQUU6NvD3/en/woman-shot-by-husband-describes-forgiveness-and-face-transplant?t=27) I don't know. It's just the way stuff was happening. [0:31](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/47tHQUU6NvD3/en/woman-shot-by-husband-describes-forgiveness-and-face-transplant?t=31) I knew something bad was gonna happen. I just never dreamed it was that. [0:35](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/47tHQUU6NvD3/en/woman-shot-by-husband-describes-forgiveness-and-face-transplant?t=35) He was sentenced to seven years. She, to a lifetime of pain. [0:40](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/47tHQUU6NvD3/en/woman-shot-by-husband-describes-forgiveness-and-face-transplant?t=40) She underwent 27 surgeries just to function, while dreading having to walk out the door. [0:45](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/47tHQUU6NvD3/en/woman-shot-by-husband-describes-forgiveness-and-face-transplant?t=45) Worst of all, she said, that she frightened young children. [0:49](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/47tHQUU6NvD3/en/woman-shot-by-husband-describes-forgiveness-and-face-transplant?t=49) And a little girl said, "There's a monster, mommy. There's a monster." [0:53](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/47tHQUU6NvD3/en/woman-shot-by-husband-describes-forgiveness-and-face-transplant?t=53) So I took out my driver's license and I told her, I told the mom, the dad, I said, "Do you not care? [0:58](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/47tHQUU6NvD3/en/woman-shot-by-husband-describes-forgiveness-and-face-transplant?t=58) I want to tell you, talk to your daughter." [1:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/47tHQUU6NvD3/en/woman-shot-by-husband-describes-forgiveness-and-face-transplant?t=60) I said, "That I had a bad, bad person shoot me." [1:04](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/47tHQUU6NvD3/en/woman-shot-by-husband-describes-forgiveness-and-face-transplant?t=64) I said, "That's why you never pick up a gun." [1:06](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/47tHQUU6NvD3/en/woman-shot-by-husband-describes-forgiveness-and-face-transplant?t=66) And I said, "Look at my driver's license." [1:08](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/47tHQUU6NvD3/en/woman-shot-by-husband-describes-forgiveness-and-face-transplant?t=68) I said, "This is what I used to look like." [1:10](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/47tHQUU6NvD3/en/woman-shot-by-husband-describes-forgiveness-and-face-transplant?t=70) And the dad's like, "No, no, leave it after." [1:12](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/47tHQUU6NvD3/en/woman-shot-by-husband-describes-forgiveness-and-face-transplant?t=72) I said, "No, she needs to know that there aren't monsters, you know?" [1:17](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/47tHQUU6NvD3/en/woman-shot-by-husband-describes-forgiveness-and-face-transplant?t=77) And the little girl said, "Wow." You know? [1:20](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/47tHQUU6NvD3/en/woman-shot-by-husband-describes-forgiveness-and-face-transplant?t=80) And the dad said, "Thank you." How often do you think of that picture on the driver's license? [1:26](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/47tHQUU6NvD3/en/woman-shot-by-husband-describes-forgiveness-and-face-transplant?t=86) How often do you think of the way you looked then? [1:31](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/47tHQUU6NvD3/en/woman-shot-by-husband-describes-forgiveness-and-face-transplant?t=91) You know what's so funny? I said I hated that picture. [1:34](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/47tHQUU6NvD3/en/woman-shot-by-husband-describes-forgiveness-and-face-transplant?t=94) Now I love that picture. Like, I was worried- I- ... about my weight and everything. [1:38](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/47tHQUU6NvD3/en/woman-shot-by-husband-describes-forgiveness-and-face-transplant?t=98) I'm like, "That was so foolish." You know? Five months ago, thanks to a donor, she would once again have the chance to try to look in a mirror and see a face. [1:49](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/47tHQUU6NvD3/en/woman-shot-by-husband-describes-forgiveness-and-face-transplant?t=109) She says, despite the difficulty of the surgery, she put herself in the hands of the brilliant surgeons at the Cleveland Clinic. [1:56](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/47tHQUU6NvD3/en/woman-shot-by-husband-describes-forgiveness-and-face-transplant?t=116) How do you decide, "I'm going to go for it. [1:59](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/47tHQUU6NvD3/en/woman-shot-by-husband-describes-forgiveness-and-face-transplant?t=119) I'm gonna do it." [2:03](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/47tHQUU6NvD3/en/woman-shot-by-husband-describes-forgiveness-and-face-transplant?t=123) I can't live the way I was. There's no way. [2:06](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/47tHQUU6NvD3/en/woman-shot-by-husband-describes-forgiveness-and-face-transplant?t=126) My whole face, I'll tell you, it was sliding. [2:09](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/47tHQUU6NvD3/en/woman-shot-by-husband-describes-forgiveness-and-face-transplant?t=129) On that last month before that surgery, I couldn't keep food in my mouth. [2:15](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/47tHQUU6NvD3/en/woman-shot-by-husband-describes-forgiveness-and-face-transplant?t=135) It was terrible. The moments before the surgery, is there something you said to yourself? [2:20](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/47tHQUU6NvD3/en/woman-shot-by-husband-describes-forgiveness-and-face-transplant?t=140) Was there something you did? Just gave my daughter a hug. [2:24](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/47tHQUU6NvD3/en/woman-shot-by-husband-describes-forgiveness-and-face-transplant?t=144) Eight doctors working 22 hours rebuilt her skeletal structure, reconnected nerve endings, blood vessels at a microscopic level. [2:32](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/47tHQUU6NvD3/en/woman-shot-by-husband-describes-forgiveness-and-face-transplant?t=152) There are some ph-