John Wayne Bobbitt, the Virginia man infamous for having his wife, Lorena Bobbitt, cut off his penis with a kitchen knife in 1993, is suffering from side effects of an illness he claims he suffered while based at Camp Lejeune in the 1980s. I lost all my toes.
Lorena Bobbitt attacked her then-husband while he was sleeping, threw his severed body out the car window and fled the scene. Doctors miraculously were able to reattach it.
But now, due to a condition called toxic peripheral polyneuropathy, he has lost all 10 fingers and is walking with the help of a prosthetic leg, a former construction worker told Fox News Digital.
“When a wound is created, it doesn’t heal, leading to osteomyelitis, bone infections and amputation,” the 57-year-old Marine Corps veteran said Monday. “When I first got injured in 2013, they didn’t know what the underlying condition was.”
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Mindy Robinson (left) takes a selfie with John Wayne Bobbitt at the Nevada Republican Party’s Election Results Observation Party at the South Point Hotel & Casino on November 6, 2018 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (David Becker/Getty Images)
Bobbitt was stationed at Camp Lejeune in the 1980s, when the base’s water source was heavily contaminated with industrial chemicals.
he revealed his vivid injuries Sun Last weekend, he told Fox News Digital on Monday that the illness caused him to suffer a minor injury at a construction site, which caused an infection that spread to his bones, leading to him losing all 10 of his fingers over the past 10 years. .
“I stepped on a nail and without realizing it, I punctured my toe and it got infected,” he told FOX News Digital. “I had nerve damage, severe nerve damage, in my hands and feet because of the chemicals I drank there.”
Bobbitt said she has a civil suit pending against the federal government, as well as a disability lawsuit stemming from her first workplace injury.
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Ecuadorian-born Lorena Bobbitt listens to her lawyer during a trial in Manassas, Virginia, in January 1994. Bobbitt was on trial for cutting off her husband’s penis. She was found not guilty by reason of temporary insanity. (Integrated News/Getty Images)
Jurors found Lorena Bobbitt not guilty by reason of temporary insanity after her defense argued that she was driven insane by physical and sexual abuse by her then-husband.
After the trial, the court committed her to a psychiatric hospital.
The couple divorced in 1995, and John Bobbitt was acquitted of sexual assault charges in his own criminal trial.
John Bobbitt told Fox News Digital on Monday that his ex-boyfriend was an abusive narcissist who became jealous and attacked him in his sleep when he told her he was leaving her for the third time.
“I never abused her,” he said. “It was all a smear campaign.”
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He also claimed that toxic chemicals from Camp Lejeune impaired his ability to think clearly during his turbulent marriage.
He said he planned to break up with her and accused her of being the abuser in their relationship, but she took the news poorly.
“I ripped out her heart and she cut off my penis,” he said. “She was a narcissist, but she wanted the dream, the American dream…but she was just abusive.”
American porn star John Wayne Bobbitt (C) with British glamor model Lindsay Dawn McKenzie (left) at the UK launch of his video “John Wayne Bobbitt Uncut” Meet Dawn Phoenix. Bobbitt made headlines when his wife cut off his penis with a kitchen knife while he was sleeping. (Reuters)
However, he admitted that he did things that “she didn’t like”, such as prancing around in nightclubs, where she may have seen him flirting with women.
One year, on their wedding anniversary, a woman hit him with a car while he was riding his bicycle. Eventually, he said, the man went to her house to treat her wounds, and then she arrived at his apartment with her replacement bicycle.
She began giving him the silent treatment, and after a few months of it, he decided to break up with her, he said.
When that didn’t work, she attacked the sleeping man with a kitchen knife, fled the scene and threw away the severed appendage, which was later recovered by police.
Lorena Bobbitt attends Film Independent Presents ‘Lorena’ at ArcLight Hollywood on February 6, 2019 in Hollywood, California. (Tommaso Body/Getty Images)
After doctors managed to reattach it, Bobbitt briefly became an adult actor before returning to construction work. One day, he stepped on a nail at the site, and, according to claims against Camp Lejeune, his injury was aggravated by a then-undiagnosed illness.
As a result, he lost all 10 fingers in 7 surgeries over 10 years.
According to federal health officials, service members and civilians who were at Camp Lejeune between 1975 and 1985 had a 20% higher risk of cancer than service members and civilians based in other parts of the country. That’s what it means.
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Bobbitt said his family is genetically resistant to cancer, but the chemicals caused him to develop toxic peripheral polyneuropathy. This is a type of nerve damage that severely attacked his sense of touch and the bones in his toes.
FOX News’ Ashley Papa and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
