By law, anyone seeking to sue the state of Connecticut must seek permission to do so.

Representatives for Nash will present her case to the Connecticut State Judiciary Committee on Friday in hopes that legislators will allow her to proceed with a $150 million lawsuit against the state. The seven-minute video, released to Connecticut state legislators, features an interview with Nash and footage of her walking around the private medical facility where she lives and receives daily assistance for her injuries. “It’s a different world to not be able to see again or to use your hands and do things for yourself that you have to depend on other people for help now,” Nash said. “I remember laying in the room, and I remember sometimes I would try to scratch my leg, and then I wasn’t feeling it,” she said. Police later fatally shot Travis to stop the attack, which left Nash without hands, a nose, lips or eyelids. Travis the chimp, which had appeared in television commercials for Coca-Cola and Old Navy, jumped on Nash, biting and mauling her. Nash was attacked while trying to help coax her friend’s 14-year-old pet chimpanzee back into her house. “He said the lights are on,” Nash remembers, and “little by little, it started to come together.” Unaware she had lost her vision, Charla Nash said she asked her brother Mike to turn on the lights.

A Connecticut woman mauled by a friend’s chimpanzee in 2009 describes in a new video what it was like waking up in a hospital after the attack.

Sharla nash chimpanzee face bitten