Stay up to date with all the big headlines, pictures, analysis, opinion and video on the stories that matter to you. Travis began having fits of erratic behavior just before Jerome died and, in October 2003, he escaped their car and ran loose for a period of time after someone threw trash at him through the window. Charla Nash was attacked by her friends pet chimp Travis in 2009 Credit: WENN. Although it hasn’t been confirmed as a direct inspiration, Gordy the monkey’s attack in the Nope flashback is likely loosely based on the true story of Travis the chimp, a real-life chimpanzee who went on a violent rampage. He was taken from his mother, Suzy, when he was three days old and sold to Jerome and Sandra Herold for $50,000.Īfter Jerome lost his battle to cancer, and after the couple’s only child was killed in a car accident, Sandra began pampering the chimp like it was her child. Charla's face and hands were ripped off by teenage chimp, Travis in an attack which many still struggle to comprehend. Travis The Chimp was born at the Missouri Chimpanzee Sanctuary in Festus on October 21, 1995. “And now that the sun is coming out, I can feel the sun. The chimps owner, Sandra Herold, died last year but the Nash family is suing her estate for 50m. “I hear the birds singing,” she said at the time. Ms Nash was attacked by a 200lb (95kg) pet chimpanzee, known as Travis, for 12 minutes in 2009. ![]() After surviving the horrific ordeal, Nash appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show in November the same year to discuss the attack, her experimental facial surgery and her future.Īnd in 2016, Nash spoke to MSNNBC’s Today programme after her body began to reject her face transplant, after doctors tried to wean her off anti-rejection drugs.
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