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Mum of student who tore out her own eyeballs while taking drugs spoke out one year after incident

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Updated 12:34 14 Dec 2024 GMTPublished 12:29 14 Dec 2024 GMT

Mum of student who tore out her own eyeballs while taking drugs spoke out one year after incident

The woman was in a state of psychosis during the terrifying incident at just 20 years old

Jess Battison

Jess Battison

Warning: This article contains graphic content which some readers may find distressing

The mum of the student who tore out her own eyeballs while on drugs spoke out one year after the incident.

Back in 2018, Kaylee Muthart was suffering from a drug addiction, recovering from a mental breakdown and experiencing a tumultuous breakup when she ended up permanently blinding herself.

Just 20 years old at the time, she was under the illusion she had to ‘right the world’ when she gouged out her own eyes during a meth-induced psychotic episode in South Carolina, US.

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Kaylee Muthart was hallucinating at the time (SWNS)
Kaylee Muthart was hallucinating at the time (SWNS)

Muthart’s memories of the terrifying incident are ‘fuzzy’ due to her ‘hallucinating’ but explained to People: “I thought I had to take my eyes out to survive and save the world."

Reflecting nearly a year after her daughter ripped out and squished her own eyeballs, mum Katy Tompkins said she had ‘been given a second chance’.

“Mentally and physically Kaylee has come so far. We take one day at a time, but each of her days gets better,” she explained.

“Her thoughts are very goal-oriented, and now she completely understands her path. Part of that path is to help people with her story.”

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Following the episode, Muthart spent weeks in a psychiatric facility, underwent surgery to ready her eye sockets for future prostheses and did a month-long inpatient drug treatment program.

Tompkins said her daughter is determined as she explained: “When she sets her mind to something, she does it. This is a girl who bought her own car with money she earned from working - before she even got her license."

She had to undergo surgery and a treatment program (SWNS)
She had to undergo surgery and a treatment program (SWNS)

Muthart went on to attend a school for the blind and was given her first set of prosthetic eyes in 2020. Saving up some cash before returning to her studies, she works in a restaurant and tries to live her life as normally as she can.

However, her life has had a much different trajectory to what she may have imagined as a teenager due to that day she ‘thought everything would end abruptly’ if she didn’t tear out her eyes ‘immediately’.

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Muthart told Cosmopolitan: “I pushed my thumb, pointer, and middle finger into each eye. I gripped each eyeball, twisted, and pulled until each eye popped out of the socket - it felt like a massive struggle, the hardest thing I ever had to do.

"Because I could no longer see, I don't know if there was blood. But I know the drugs numbed the pain.”

If you want friendly, confidential advice about drugs, you can talk to FRANK. You can call 0300 123 6600, text 82111 or contact through their website 24/7, or livechat from 2pm-6pm any day of the week.

Featured Image Credit: SWNS

Topics: Drugs, Mental Health, US News

Jess Battison
Jess Battison

Jess is a Senior Journalist with a love of all things pop culture. Her main interests include asking everyone in the office what they're having for tea, waiting for a new series of The Traitors and losing her voice at a Beyoncé concert. She graduated with a first in Journalism from City, University of London in 2021.

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