Ex-meth user who gouged her own eyeballs out while high says she is happier years after nightmarish episode

The South Carolina woman who gouged her own eyeballs out during a meth-induced psychotic episode has adjusted to living in blindness and is much happier now – more than six years after the horrific act forced her to quit using drugs.Kaylee Muthart, 26, was left permanently blinded when she ripped out her eyes with her bare hands and squished them believing the act of self-harm would save the world after snorting and injecting tainted methamphetamine in February 2018.She now maintains her life is better than it was before her world suddenly went dark.“Of course there are times when I get really upset about my situation, particularly on nights when I can’t fall asleep,” Muthart said, according to The Daily Mail.“But truthfully, I’m happier now that I was before all this happened.

I’d rather be blind than dependent on drugs.”The Anderson resident was an honor student who pumped out straight-As in high school.She would often smoke marijuana on weekends before the harrowing incident, but said she would avoid hard drugs due to addiction issues in her family, the outlet reported.Muthart got hooked on crystal meth after a friend gave her a joint laced with the drug when she was 19-years-old.

Within a year, she went from smoking meth to injecting it.The high she got from the highly addictive drug made her feel closer to God, she told the outlet.

Muthart had agreed to go to rehab the night before she took a larger-than-normal dose of the drug — a last hurrah that spurred delusions where she believed the world was “upside down” and needed to “sacrifice her eyes” to go to heaven.She was sitting outside South Main Chapel and Mercy Center on Feb.6, 2018, when she got on her hands and knees and started praying before the traumatic incident.“I remember thinking that someone had to sacrifice something important to right the world, and that person was me,” she said. “So I pushed my thumb, pointer, and middle finger into each eye.

I gripped each ey...