John Wayne Bobbitt has all of his toes amputated due to contaminated Camp Lejeune water three decades after wife Lorena chopped off his penis
John Wayne Bobbitt, who rose to fame in 1993 after his then-wife cut off his penis while he slept, has now lost ten more appendages: his toes.
Bobbitt was diagnosed with toxic peripheral polyneuropathy after being exposed to contaminated water at the Camp Lejeune military base in North Carolina in the late 1980s.
The condition causes nerve damage to limbs, leading to the amputation of his toes over a period of several years. The last few digits were removed in 2023.
Bobbitt, who is now 57 and a former Marine, said he now has only two foot stumps and needs special prosthetic shoes.
The condition has caused him to suffer from chronic infections and painful skin problems.
John Wayne Bobbitt, now 57, who rose to fame after his wife cut off his penis in 1993, has now lost his toes to polluted water at Camp Lejeune
The exposure caused nerve damage, resulting in the amputation of all his toes
Bobbitt’s toes were amputated over a period of several years, with the last few digits removed in 2023
Bobbitt’s condition has left him with chronic infections and painful skin problems
Bobbitt has updated his followers about his healthcare issues and continues to post photos online
Bobbitt also says his experiences at Camp Lejeune affected both his physical health, including his cognitive functioning, and his mental well-being, which he believes may have affected his relationship with his ex-wife Lorena.
‘I didn’t behave as I should have. “Maybe I would have made better decisions if my cognitive functioning had not been disrupted by the chemicals,” he said The sun.
The Camp Lejeune contamination has been described as “one of the worst cases of water pollution in U.S. history,” with oil, industrial wastewater and toxic chemicals all knowingly dumped into local storm drains at the Army base between 1952 and 1987, causing the local water became polluted. supply for 35 years.
‘They knew. They were testing the water and it turned out to be up to 3,500 times higher than normal safety standards,” Bobbitt said.
In 1993, Lorena Bobbitt accused him of raping and beating her before the shocking incident in which she cut off his penis with a kitchen knife in their Virginia home.
She then jumped in her car and drove to her boss’s house, throwing her husband’s penis out the window into a field, before calling the police and confessing to what she had just done.
Bobbitt, who is now 57 and a former Marine, said he now has only two foot stumps and needs special prosthetic shoes.
Bobbitt, a former Marine, was diagnosed with toxic peripheral polyneuropathy in the late 1980s after being exposed to contaminated water at the Camp Lejeune military training center.
Bobbitt has had his toes removed over the years. This photo was taken in 2018
Sickening water pollution has left Bobbitt and many of his fellow service members suffering from serious physical and mental problems
John Wayne Bobbitt on his wedding day to Lorena in June 1989
Lorena Bobbitt gained enormous attention worldwide after she cut off her husband John Wayne Bobbitt’s penis in 1993 after he said he had raped her.
John Wayne Bobbitt is seen at his trial in 1993
Lorena used this kitchen knife to sever her husband’s organ after she claimed he raped her
John Wayne Bobbitt claims he did not abuse or rape her that night she cut off his penis 30 years ago
Incredibly, authorities were able to locate it after Lorena described the exact location.
Doctors were able to save and reattach it during a nine-hour operation.
Bobbitt says he is functioning ‘normally’ again and was even able to start a career as a porn star in 2013, during which he says he has slept with more than seventy women.
Lorena was charged with malicious wounding. During her trial, she took the stand and was later acquitted by reason of temporary insanity.
She was sent to a psychiatric hospital, where she was discharged after a month.
John Wayne Bobbitt was accused of spousal sexual abuse. He was acquitted in a 1994 trial and continues to defend his innocence.