Chandel posted a photograph of her college days and revealed that she was attacked soon after the picture was taken. She further said that the acid attack was so brutal that she had to undergo 54 surgeries.
Chandel was reportedly attacked by a boy, while she was studying engineering in Dehradun, after she rejected his proposal.
“Shortly after this image was clicked, the guy whose proposal I refused threw one litre acid on my face, I had to go through 54 surgeries strangely and simultaneously my little sister was physically assaulted and almost beaten to death for what?” she tweeted.
“Lot of people feeling sorry about the fact that I lost my beauty, honestly when your organs melt before your eyes beauty is the last thing you care about, even after 54 surgeries over a span of 5 years doctors couldn’t reconstruct my ear. I had lost one eye had a retina transplant, doctors took skin patches from all over my body and grafted my one breast which was severely damaged. During breast feeding Prithu (her son) I felt many complications,” she mentioned.
“Even now I can’t stretch my neck sometime itching in grafted skin is so bad that I wish I was dead. Shockingly, acid victims numbers are very high in India, the culprit was out on bail within few weeks, it was too painful to see him roam around freely,” she said while providing details of the horrific incident.
Chandel thanked her sister Kangana Ranaut and husband for their constant support through her ordeal.
“I don’t know what to say. Honestly, I had given up on my life, my now husband but back then just a normal friend washed my wounds and waited outside operation theatres for years. Very supportive sister and parents collectively breathed life in to me. Can’t take credit for what my life is today. I don’t know initially I wanted to know everything but my sister helped me disassociate from all this, it was harming my recovery process and now my husband and my son are my priority not going after a culprit,” she wrote.
In the social media post, she stressed that acid attackers should get the death sentence.
“Why not death sentence for these people? Beauty was the last thing I cared about I was university topper but best years of my youth went in operation theatres, even though I had 90 per cent burn still no reservation for acid survivors,” she wrote.