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A model and ex-Playboy Bunny is opening up about a terrifying attack she suffered while in a completely vulnerable state. This is not the kind of complication we usually hear about after cosmetic surgery…
Carla Howe, who served as a Bunny and lived in the infamous Playboy Mansion with Hugh Hefner before his death, revealed on Wednesday she was sexually assaulted after undergoing a recent cosmetic surgery.
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The 35-year-old told The US Sun she traveled from London to Istanbul, Turkey last week to undergo a fox eye lift — a procedure designed to elongate eyes. It’s standard practice for patients to have their eyes bandaged immediately following the surgery for protection — but for Carla, she was unfortunately anything but safe.
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The model revealed to the outlet that while laying in her hospital bed recovering the following day — ice patches covering her eyes, so she couldn’t see — she felt someone creeping around her:
“I was lying in my hospital bed with iced patches over my eyes. I could hear a noise to my right of the hospital bed. I obviously thought it must just be the nurses or something.”
From there, things took a traumatizing turn:
“I felt the duvet being lifted around my breast area. I shot up immediately and shouted, ‘Excuse me!’”
Carla revealed she was completely naked under the blanket when the stranger attempted to touch her… But when she confronted them, they made a mad dash for the exit:
“I immediately pressed the red buzzer and called the Turkish police.”
We guess they thought they wouldn’t get caught. But within 25 minutes, authorities arrived and began combing through security footage at the Acibadem Taksim Hospital. And what they found was chilling:
“They came straight to the hospital and checked the CCTV. They identified the suspect, who was apparently a hospital worker.”
An EMPLOYEE of the hospital?! That is so sickening. What an invasion.
Cops arrested the male suspect, and Carla is planning to press charges:
“It is very scary. I don’t feel like, as a British female person, that it is safe in Turkey. If I didn’t feel the blanket being lifted, God knows what would’ve happened — I have an angel.”
Ever since the traumatizing situation, she hasn’t been able to shake the feeling that the suspect had done this before:
“My first thought was, ‘Oh my God, has he been in here before and I didn’t see him?’ No male should have access to a [female patient’s] room. If I didn’t wake up there and then — I’m assuming the worker thought I was unconscious because of the patches on my eyes — I could’ve been sexually assaulted or God knows what could have happened.”
She added:
“I’m just glad that I was awake, because if I wasn’t, I don’t know what would have happened to me.”
Now, she just wants other women to be aware of the potential dangers:
“The whole thing has left me terrified. It was supposed to be a quick, simple recovery — not this.”
Following the debacle, a Foreign Office spokesperson told the outlet:
“We are supporting a British national following an incident in Turkey.”
Our hearts are with Carla as she tries to recover from the scary incident! We’re so glad she was actually awake…
If you or someone you know has experienced sexual violence and would like to learn more about resources, consider checking out https://www.rainn.org/resources
[Images via Carla Howe/TikTok]
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