Warning: This article discusses s*xual ass*ult, which may be distressing to some readers.
John Wayne Bobbitt became the focus of national attention when his then-wife, Lorena Bobbitt, seve*ed his pen!s. In 1993, Lorena claimed that she had endured years of abvse from John.
She alleged that on one occasion, her intoxicated husband came home and r*ped her. In response, she went to the kitchen, retrieved an eight-inch knife, returned to the bedroom, pulled back the bed covers, and cut off his pen!s. Fortunately, surgeons were able to reattach John’s severed organ in a surgery that lasted nine and a half hours.
Lorena was later acquitted of all charges, including ‘malicious wounding.’ She also shared what she did with John’s pen!s afterward. Lorena fled the apartment, holding the knife in one hand and his severed member in the other. She got into her car, drove through the night, and eventually threw the organ out the window before calling the police.
During the trial, the jury determined that she was ‘temporarily insane’ at the time of the incident. Lorena was detained in a psychiatric facility for 45 days following the trial before her release.
Both John and Lorena have spoken about that night, with John urging his ex-wife to apologize. He even suggested the possibility of reconciliation, claiming, “We could have worked it out and had a family.” In an interview with the US Sun earlier this year, he expressed hope that Lorena would acknowledge her mistake, saying, “Yes, I could forgive her.
The attack affected me differently because I was a Marine and trained for combat. I knew when they were able to put it back on I would be OK because I had healed pretty good. But why couldn’t she have waited until the morning to talk to me? Why did she do it? She’s still saying I’m a monster, but I just want my name back. I want closure.”
The couple divorced in 1995, and Lorena founded the Lorena Gallo Foundation to support victims of domestic violence. In a 2018 interview with TIME magazine, 25 years after the incident, she criticized the media coverage at the time.