Meth User Who Gouged Own Eyes Out Wants Her Story Told

ANDERSON, SC — A woman who gouged out her own eyes outside a church in South Carolina was high on methamphetamine at the time and now hopes to prevent others from choosing the same path by having her story shared, according to a new report. Earlier this month, Anderson County deputies found a woman holding her eyeballs in her hands near the South Main Chapel and Recovery Center in Anderson.

The sheriff's office told Patch the "combative" woman refused to allow emergency medial responders to help her. She was eventually rushed to a hospital but there wasn't much that doctors could do.

Now, she's blind.

Katy Tompkins felt "complete terror" after learning the news of her daughter Kaylee Muthart, she told the news outlet People. Tompkins said her daughter began using meth about six months before the incident.

Doctors suspect she used the drug on the day she gouged her eyes out and that the drug had probably been laced with something else. The other mysterious substance likely left her in a hallucinogenic state — she thought the world was upside down and began hearing voices saying she had to sacrifice her eyes to go to heaven.

Muthart became hooked to the illegal drug when she used meth-laced marijuana, Tompkins told the news outlet.

Her mother has created an account on GoFundMe to raise money to get her a service dog. Muthart recently has been trying to gather her thoughts, but she saw "pure evil" — things she can't unsee — while under the mind-altering drug's spell, the post said.

"They are still in her memories. She doesn't want them to be but she is trying her best to work through it. Thankfully, as time progresses, with much support and her therapy, we can help her to understand that things that she was seeing and thinking at that time, were not true or real," the post said.

Tompkins told People she doesn't know when Kaylee will be released from the hospital, but that Muthart wants others to hear her story in hopes they won't make the same choices.

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