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Woman Who Gouged Her Eyes Out While On Meth Speaks Out

Woman Who Gouged Her Eyes Out While On Meth Speaks Out

The 20-year-old said: "I actually feel like a person. I feel like myself"

Claire Reid

Claire Reid

The woman who gouged her own eyes out while high on meth has spoken out about the ordeal three months on.

Kaylee Muthart, 20, was released from hospital in March after being told she would be permanently blind following the incident that has also left her scarred for life. Kaylee told People she was now clean and is trying her best to adapt and stay positive.

"I actually feel like a person," she told People. "I feel like myself, and I don't feel like I'm chasing something.

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"It, actually, feels really nice. The way it worked out is the way God had it work out, that's just the way it is...but I'd rather for it to have happened than to still be stuck in that world."

Kaylee, from South Carolina, gouged out her eyes with her fingers during a meth-induced, psychotic hallucination. Horrified neighbours ran to try and help, but Kaylee fought them off. She was eventually taken to hospital where surgeon treated her for her injuries.

Speaking at the time, her mum Katy Tompkins has told People: "I can't even explain that feeling when I found out, it was horrifying. Complete terror."

Opening up to People shortly after the incident, Kaylee explained that she had started smoking pot when she was 17, but that one day someone gave her a spliff laced with what she believes was meth or cocaine.

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After that her casual drug-taking got worse and worsened still when she broke up with her boyfriend, to the point that her mum begged her to go to rehab.

She eventually agreed but says the week before she took a huge dose of meth, and that was the night of her horrific delusion.

"I remember thinking that someone had to sacrifice something important to right the world, and that person was me. I thought everything would end abruptly, and everyone would die, if I didn't tear out my eyes immediately," she said.

Her family set up a GoFundMe to help cover some of her medical bills, they have so far raised $50,321 of $75,000 goal.

Despite her shocking injuries, Kaylee is refusing to be held back, since receiving rehabilitation to get used to life with her vision, Kaylee has been learning to play guitar and piano, she also uses the audio descriptions to watch Netflix. She now plans to go to university to study marine biology.

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She told the magazine: "I'm a very optimistic person, and I went in with an optimistic outlook - but at some points, you're going to fall down. That's just life."

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Topics: US News, crime, Drugs, USA