Lorena Bobbitt Tells Her Side — Should John Wayne Bobbitt Come On Next?

We are in Washington, D.C. I'm so happy to be here with you.

Thank you so much for inviting me.

Of course.

It's an honor.

Do-- Wait, do people just flip out when they see you? I mean, I feel like from my generation especially, you are someone that your story has resonated with me personally because I'm someone who's been through what I assume you've been through, which is where, you know, the media and people who know your story have reduced you to a headline.

And it's been very hard to share with people who you really are because they're so stuck, um, in the thought of what this narrative is.

And it's affected my entire life for the rest of my life from a, a moment of what happened.

And I, I can imagine that is what you have gone through.

And I've always felt very empathetic and like I know you because while our stories are so different, the feeling is the same, and what happened is still the same.

And so, you know, you were someone that when I started this show, I started it for-- there was a list of maybe eight or nine people that I started it for, that I was like, "These are the people that I feel like need to have their voice heard," and you were one of them.

So it's, like, such an honor to have you here.

Oh, thank you so much, Rachel.

Um, I really appreciate your kind words.

And, uh, yeah, like you said, I mean, uh, people don't...

I mean, at that time, obviously, my case happened thirty years, thirty-five years also.

Mm-hmm.

Um, as a matter of fact, it's thirty-five years ago.

And, um, they don't really quite freaked out.

I actually-- I was surprised to see how welcoming I was among women-

Yeah

... especially.

And whenever I go to-- I couldn't even go to, um, to a grocery store because I will be recognized-

Yeah

... because my face was in every tabloid and every media.

Mm.