“I live here. It’s the actual story, she said — the one about a young immigrant who endured years of domestic violence, was raped by her husband that night, had nowhere to go and finally snapped — that she wanted to talk to me about. Only later did I realize that we had had the kind of easy conversation of manicurist and client. John Wayne Bobbitt testifies during the trial. Although there are hints of it earlier, it's the fourth episode that finally gets to a substantive engagement with how domestic violence was treated in the early '90s, the number of states in which marital rape was either not criminalized or required a complicated and steep burden of proof. The two were study partners and friends for years before they became romantically involved. In a phone interview, John, who was in New York preparing to tape “The Dr. Oz Show,” said he hadn’t seen “Lorena” but he said the filmmakers had set him up to make him look bad. Music: Julian Wass Television cameras follow Lorena Bobbitt into court in 1994. In the years since the trial, he was arrested several times and served jail time for violence against two different women. A documentary of her life, “Lorena,” will premiere on Amazon on Feb. 15. “I’ll put myself through the jokes and everything as long as I can shine a light on domestic violence and sexual assault and marital rape,” she said. But I wasn’t raised that way.”, The filmmakers who approached her over the years never wanted to focus on the abuse, the story she really wanted to talk about. The first episode, after all, follows small town policemen digging around a field for a missing penis. The documentary about Lorena Bobbitt, who cut off her husband's penis, is nearly here . The first episode is a lot of that, and then each subsequent episode gives more details on the relationship between Lorena and John and the years of psychological and physical abuse that she testified to (and he denied under oath). This article is more than 1 year old. Lorena is correct, of course, that most people forget that before she was tried for what she did, John was charged with marital sexual assault. John Wayne Bobbitt talking from his North Las Vegas home for the Amazon docu-series “Lorena.”. YOUTUBE. We talked about being moms and our naturally curly hair. Follow. But Lorena is, unfortunately, a documentary that really could have used refinement in its argument — reached and yet still insufficient in that fourth episode — and a more robust focus on its anchor. Disappointingly, the documentary doesn't have an interview with any of the comics who dined out on cheap dick jokes for months. He explained that to Lorena when he reached out to her in December 2016, after reading about her work with domestic violence victims in HuffPost. And that is why she took a break from volunteering with her daughter’s volleyball team and her work at her nonprofit, Lorena’s Red Wagon, that helps survivors of domestic violence, to have lunch and show me around this bedroom community outside Washington, where it all went down. These are the details everyone knows and the ones Lorena recites with the stoicism of the waiter at the Tortino Mare Italian restaurant who hours earlier had relayed the specials for us. It’s his life. There, she said as she drove us around in her Kia on a recent afternoon, was the hospital where surgeons reattached John Wayne Bobbitt’s penis after she cut it off with a kitchen knife as he slept on the night of June 23, 1993. Because even though she didn’t want John, who continued to show up at her nail salon after the trial and still writes her love letters, to control her life, she knows that she cannot run from that phallic last name, not when you are Lorena in Manassas. After a while, I grew really sick of John popping up to say banal things on noncontroversial subjects and then not saying anything at all about his darker chapters. The nail salon, after all, had been Lorena’s refuge before and after the trial. She understands that the reason she has a platform is because of the detached penis, because of the hot dog box and Frankenpenis and that unforgettable last name. He has maintained that he planned to divorce Lorena and that after he denied her sex that night, in a vengeful rage, she cut off his penis while he slept. Lorena is actually directed by Joshua Rofe and, over the better part of its first three hours, it just rehashes the events of June 23, 1993, that led to Lorena Bobbitt cleanly slicing off husband John Wayne Bobbitt's penis, tossing it out the window of her car and spawning a pair of high-profile trials and an incalculable amount of nervous and probably inappropriate laugher, given that Lorena's professed justification was temporary insanity stemming from years of alleged rape and domestic abuse. “When I was abused, I went to the salon and I didn’t have the key and had to sleep in my car outside,” she said. The four-part series premiered on February 15, 2019 on Prime Video. You know, just to integrate myself into normalcy and a normal life.”, John went on to star in pornographic films (“John Wayne Bobbitt: Uncut” and “John Wayne Bobbitt’s Frankenpenis”). “They always just focused on it …” — as in her husband’s detached and reattached and then, a couple of years later, surgically kind-of enlarged penis. Rofé said that before his talks with Lorena, he’d thought about the Bobbitt case (“the original clickbait,” he called it) like most people did. On a sleepy night in 1993, Lorena Bobbitt sliced off her husband’s penis after years of abuse. | Do Not Sell My Personal Information Amazon's new "Lorena" documentary sheds light on the Lorena Bobbitt scandal 25 years ago, when Bobbitt cut off her husband's penis. Some have the good sense to look embarrassed. Who Really Gets Screwed?” an earlier column in Penthouse read.) “This four-part docuseries from … That afternoon we grabbed a coffee at Jirani Coffeehouse, near the courthouse where in 1994 the world’s media had descended to cover the Bobbitt trial, where vendors sold “Love Hurts” T-shirts and penis-shaped candy, and where inside Lorena, originally from Ecuador, trembled as she told a jury about how her husband, a former Marine, had repeatedly assaulted her. Robert Sherbow/The LIFE Images Collection, via Getty Images, Though she now goes by her maiden name, Lorena Gallo said, “I know I am still Lorena Bobbitt. 8.5 Overall Score. June 23, 1993, the lives of Lorena Bobbitt and her husband John Wayne Bobbitt became household names. (“Wife Rape? Instead, Rofe keeps getting distracted by John's tawdry, frequently disgraceful use of the spotlight himself. Could benefit from some smarter cutting. After years of abuse and torment, Lorena snaps on her husband causing him what most men would consider the worst physical pain the... – Kuuntele Lorena and John Bobbitt - The Snippy Story -jaksoa podcastista Murder With My Husband heti tabletilla, puhelimella ja selaimella. © 2021 The Hollywood Reporter, LLC. Why would they laugh about my suffering?” But a couple of decades later, after a lot of therapy, Lorena gets it now. Lorena identified with Tonya Harding and Monica Lewinsky. “This is about a victim and a survivor and this is about what’s happening in our world today,” Lorena told me. Venue: Sundance Film Festival (Special Events). This week's episode is the infamous story of John and Lorena Bobbitt. “I’d be lying to you if I said there’s not humor in this story,” Peele said. “There is a third character to this story besides Lorena and John and that is us, society, and what we did with the information we had available to us,” Peele said. “To me, regret is ‘Oh, I bought a black car instead of a red car’ when you don’t choose right,” Lorena said. In Rofé and Peele’s hands, the 24-hour news cycle becomes a voracious, multiheaded monster that eventually engulfs everything. She went to the kitchen to get a glass of water, spotted the kitchen knife and was overcome from years of abuse. And even though she goes by her maiden name and, shortly after the trial, the media moved on (thank you, Tonya Harding), people meet Lorena in Manassas and it doesn’t take long for them to make the connection that she is that Lorena in Manassas. They view her as a key data point in a conversation that also included Anita Hill and other women who, by action or deed, caused people to confront the apathetic or callous attitudes they had when the Bobbitt story broke. Fifteen minutes away, near Maplewood Drive, was the gravel-strewn field where she disposed of the detached penis out the driver’s side window. Today, Lorena is shy, a petite 117 pounds in a black blazer, tasteful black stilettos, diamond hoop earrings and a Louis Vuitton handbag. And while many women defended Lorena and wondered what John must have done to drive her to it, some feminists argued that she had hurt the cause, making the sisterhood look deranged. John came home drunk. Simpson was arrested and later acquitted in the murder of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend, Ron Goldman. MANASSAS, Va. — Lorena is very matter-of-fact about the whole thing. Maybe, she figured, her story could finally get equal billing to John’s penis. But as John spiraled downward, Lorena found strength in the scars of her ordeal. Even though the “War of the Bobbitts,” as People magazine called it, happened two years after Anita Hill inserted sexual harassment into the conversation and “Thelma & Louise” turned a housewife and a waitress into renegade icons of female revenge, most people never really thought of Lorena in those terms. Lorena Bobbitt on trial in Manassas, Va., in 1994. (with correction to misstatement in the video. By “them” she means the police who, sometime after 4:30 a.m., clutched their loins and went digging through the overgrown roadside grass for the missing member. “It would’ve been amazing. “I grew up being told it was common knowledge that some crazy white lady cut her husband’s penis off in a fit of vengeance,” he said. I looked over at Lorena, her hands gripping the steering wheel at 10 and 2. AdChoices with that. She was incredibly young and still learning to express herself in her second language when the story exploded, and the passage of time has been kind to her. 2:45 PM PST 1/29/2019 “We were vilified by the media, vilified and that is so sad. Twenty-five years on, Lorena Bobbitt goes by her maiden name Gallo and tells her side of the story in Lorena, a four-part documentary on Amazon. Many of them are covered here. She smiled politely and posed for the photo. Sitemap | John and Lorena Bobbitt’s dueling narratives exploded in a ravenous 24-hour news cycle, igniting a renewed battle of the sexes. “I tried to drive the car, obviously, but I had this thing in my hand so I couldn’t drive so I got rid of it.” Obviously. The Lorena Bobbitt documentary reveals the weirdness of the 90s. What you don't know about the tragic scandal... By Naomi Gordon. Did she regret giving him a modicum of fame and a small but steady lifelong income? Then, in 1994, O.J. In the 1990s, she was the topic of tabloid headlines and comedy skits. Nurses. “I know I am still Lorena Bobbitt,” she said. Alan Hauge, Lorena's media representative, gives some of the more interesting interviews talking about how figures like Barbara Walters and Geraldo Rivera pursued their blanket coverage. Executive produced by Jordan Peele, this four-hour documentary eventually finds interesting things about the infamous Lorena Bobbitt case, but it needs more and better focus. The documentary series flips the script on the 1993 John and Lorena Bobbitt scandal to allow the latter to finally tell her side of the story. "Lorena," a four-episode docu-series hits Amazon Friday, and takes a deep dive into why Lorena Bobbitt infamously sliced off her husband’s member in 1993. Daniel Fienberg “I’m not a vindictive person because I told them where it was,” Lorena Gallo, as she is now known, said. THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER is a registered trademark of The Hollywood Reporter, LLC. “The incident” — that is what Lorena calls the shocking crime that still makes many men grasp their crotch and assume she must be serving a life sentence. I meant, did she regret making John Wayne Bobbitt a household name? EMAIL ME “Lorena,” Peele told me, fits with his larger mission to make films that give voices to marginalized people, but it’s impossible not to acknowledge that the story has the dark, tragicomic underpinnings of a Coen brothers’ movie. After years of alleged abuse, Lorena explains why she did what she did on a new documentary … That is the story she tells in “Lorena,” a four-part, Jordan Peele-produced documentary that will debut on Amazon Prime Video on Feb. 15. Despite the title — de-sensationalized via the removal of Lorena's married name — Lorena struggles to really be Lorena's story even in that last episode. Editors: Allan Duso, Poppy Das, Morgan Hanner, Azin Samari “Nobody cared about anything except John and his surgery and his ‘loss,’” said Kim A. Gandy, a former president of the National Organization for Women. Not long after Peele won an Oscar for “Get Out,” Rofé casually brought up his fixation with reassessing Lorena Bobbitt. Here, the talking heads don't view Lorena as a joke. Ahead of its streaming debut on Amazon Prime later this month, “Lorena” had its world premiere at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. John and Lorena Bobbitt’s stories exploded into a 24-hour news cycle. Lorena Bobbitt in New York on Feb. 4. Hadley Freeman. He asked Lorena if she was O.K. “A million dollars is a million dollars,” she said. Lorena (2019) Published on February 17, 2019, by JPRoscoe - Posted in TV Shows 0. 2) I'm not exactly sure, though if Jordan Peele wants to use this current moment of clout to enable long-form documentaries, all praise to him. I asked. It just so happened that at the same time, a wave of movies, documentaries and podcasts (“I, Tonya,” “The Clinton Affair,” “Slow Burn”) had shined new light on other women engulfed in scandals in the 1990s. Al Franken, as the character Stuart Smalley on Saturday Night Live, implored Lorena to apologize to John’s penis. Basically, I don’t think I have anything to do with whatever he chooses to do with his life, you know, after the incident,” she said. So, even though most portrayals of Lorena made her seem like, in her words, “this crazy, jealous lady,” the Bobbitt trial did play a part in the laws changing. Maybe that's a sign you need to either be more aesthetically creative or find a different subject. Is it just because you need filler footage to cut away to? She became a national joke, her suffering ignored by the male-dominated press. Credit...Heather Sten for The New York Times. “It was this red hot thing that everybody got wrong.”. [Ashley Judd, Gwyneth Paltrow and others on how #MeToo changed their lives.]. (She told me her weight because she had weighed 95 pounds in 1993, when John said she had assaulted him.) “I loved the way that used 25 years of hindsight to look at this case that we thought we all knew and I thought this spoke to gender dynamics in the way “O.J.” peeled back the layers of racial dynamics,” Peele said in a phone interview. But Not All of It. Many women reporters, the documentary makes a point of emphasizing, wanted to write about the Bobbitt … She attended her Catholic church regularly and went to community college where she met David Bellinger. But he's not. The crowd outside the courthouse during the trial. Again, befitting their centrality in a media circus, nearly all of the talking heads sound like they've given comparable answers and made the same jokes for 25 years. “Lorena” ends with the number for the National Domestic Violence Hotline, but the narrative itself doesn’t take a side. A trip in the way-back machine. She wasn’t trying to disguise herself or anything, she said, “It’s like ‘oh, your roots are showing,’ so little by little I became blonder ….” And just like that, a straight iron and some hair dye and the scared young woman splashed on the cover of tabloids morphed into the sophisticated advocate who now sat across from me. John Bobbitt tried to contact her many times in the past 25 years Near the end of the documentary, Lorena Bobbitt (now Lorena Gallo) reads a series of … Privacy Policy | If I had to guess as to Rofe's goal in spending so much time covering and recovering the crime and two trials, I'd say that he's trying to put all of those all-too-easy jokes on ice. It just takes too long to get there. Why should he have the last laugh?” she said when I asked why she didn’t move away. “They didn’t understand. But Lorena doesn’t think about things like that. It occurred to me that there would be no documentary, no Bobbitt jokes or permanent place in popular culture, had John severed some vital piece of Lorena. He became a fixture on “The Howard Stern Show.” “I don’t even buy that he was raping her,” Stern said on one segment with John. While I'm offering unsolicited advice to documentary filmmakers: Give some consideration to why you're using reenactments. And, she is correct, that people forget that a jury found her not guilty by reason of temporary insanity. Where are they now and how event changed things is the strongest aspect. She hugged me hello, coming up to my neck in heels, and I was struck at how warm and maternal she was. When the world learned her name, Lorena was a 24-year-old immigrant manicurist in the process of leaving her husband. Director: Joshua Rofe Parts 2 and 3 seem drawn out. “I do not remember Lorena Bobbitt, feminist hero.”, Domestic violence activists tried to refocus the conversation. not guilty by reason of temporary insanity. Meanwhile, in 2019, the case was back in the news, featured in an Amazon Prime documentary called Lorena. It premieres Feb. 15 on Amazon Prime. “She’s not that great looking.” Lorena did some press, but mostly resisted offers to turn their castration saga into a film or TV series. Lorena became a national joke, her suffering ignored by the male-dominated press. Again, she told me, there are only choices. Lorena Bobbitt severed the penis of her husband and … “How can you regret something you didn’t mean to do?” she said. Reporters. These days, the attention Lorena gets in this town is mostly positive. That same year Congress passed the Violence Against Women Act. “I just wanted to take care of myself and my family. Lorena and John Wayne Bobbitt at their 1989 wedding. Rofe has interviews with many of the key figures in every bizarre part of this case, from the doctors who helped reattach John Wayne Bobbitt's penis to neighbors who testified at various trials to two members of each jury giving insight into their respective verdicts. : Made in America” and saw the makings of something similar in Rofé’s project. Lorena and John Wayne Bobbitt will be the subjects of tonight's ABC News 20/20. That name you know, it’s very important here.”. Production company: Amazon Studios At one point, we drove along in silence. They found it, put it on ice in a Big Bite hot dog box from a nearby 7-Eleven and rushed it to the hospital where in a nine-and-a-half-hour feat of urological and plastic surgery it was reattached and restored to (almost) full function. “He can choose. “I’ll put myself through the jokes and everything as long as I can shine a light on domestic violence and sexual assault and marital rape,” she said. Executive producers: Joshua Rofe, Steven J. Berger, Jordan Peele, Win Rosenfeld, Thomas Lesinski, Jenna Santoianni Those first three hours are tremendously frustrating because the two Bobbitt trials were already media circuses, hers televised in its entirety on Court TV. The frustration of Lorena is that there are many reasons the story is relevant today and worthy of closer examination and reexamination. Executive producer Jordan Peele takes a look at the 1993 case of Lorena and John Bobbitt, which made headlines around the world. — AFP pic — AFP pic LOS ANGELES, March 21 — Mention the name Lorena Bobbitt and the reactions are all too predictable: The knowing snigger, the grimace that indicates pain combined with a protective gesture over the crotch area. Lorena Bobbitt, now 49, famously chopped off her partner's manhood in the 90s. I'd give almost anything for Rofe to have grilled Howard Stern on the countless John Wayne Bobbitt interviews in which they chortled about Lorena's sanity and the details presented in the case. And yes, that's a penis-on-ice joke and I should be ashamed. You Know the Lorena Bobbitt Story. “They always laugh.”. A woman who recognized her from a Zumba class ran up to us. “The national dialogue that started with Anita Hill, Lorena Bobbitt, O.J. For a woman who has been a punch line for most of her adult life, Lorena “Bobbitt” Gallo is a surprisingly sincere person. “We did a lot of interviews and the approach was often something like ‘Well, that’s what you feminists wanted all along.’”. | EU Privacy Preferences. [Subscribe to our Movies Newsletter to find out about the latest releases and Critics’ Picks.]. That is the story she tells in “Lorena,” a four-part, Jordan Peele-produced documentary that will debut on Amazon Prime Video on Feb. 15. The Hollywood Reporter. Lorena is a 2019 American true-crime docuseries about the 1993 assault and subsequent court case involving John and Lorena Bobbitt. It happens to women,” she said. John und Lorena Bobbitts Geschichte geriet zum Medienspektakel. The black or the red car. David Ake/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images. She told him she was. Nineties women who dared to … | California Privacy Rights He was convicted and spent time in jail. He raped her. Terms of Use | She stared straight ahead at the road, the same road she had been on that night in 1993, a night that even though she didn’t want it to, has defined her life. It relies on news footage and interviews with Lorena, sitting in her living room. 'Lorena' Documentary “Recontexulizes” Story of Lorena Bobbitt | Sundance 2019. “That name you know, it’s very important here.”. The documentary mostly unfolds in 1993, the dawn of Court TV and a proliferation of gossipy daytime talk shows. John is extensively interviewed, too, from a lounger in his home in North Las Vegas. At the time, marital rape only recently had been made a crime in all 50 states and was nearly impossible to prove in Virginia. TWITTER Pool photo by Agence France-Presse — Getty Images. Peele devoured ESPN’s “O.J. Die vierteilige Dokuserie vom ausführenden Produzenten Jordan Peele untersucht die Ereignisse des Jahres 1993, als Lorena Bobbitt nach jahrelangem Missbrauch ihrem Ehemann den Penis abschnitt. Many in the media, including Ladies’ Home Journal and Gay Talese on assignment for The New Yorker, questioned whether it was an oxymoron. She turned down $1 million to pose for Playboy. Lorena Bobbitt and Joshua Rofe attends the Film Independent Presents ‘Lorena’ at ArcLight Hollywood in Hollywood, California February 6, 2019. She explained, again, what she told the jury in 1994. I asked John about the additional charges that the film covers, including a harrowing interview with one of his ex-girlfriends who said he tied her to the bed in his Niagara Falls, N.Y., apartment and for several days repeatedly raped her. Or at least not these four hours. But I didn’t just mean did she regret committing the act. She hopes to open her own shelter. IMDb 7.2 2019 X-Ray 16+ From Executive Producer Jordan Peele, this four-part docuseries investigates the events of 1993, where Lorena Bobbitt sliced off her husband’s penis after years of abuse. Feminists threaten to castrate American men if Lorena Bobbitt convicted. “I was the subject of so many jokes in the ’90s and to me it was just cruel,” she said. Even though she has physically transformed, now the picture of an upwardly mobile 49-year-old suburban mom with wispy blond hair, she has the same, sad, dark, orb-like eyes. Simpson, finally created a national discourse that gave us some traction on legislation,” said Katie Ray-Jones, chief executive of the National Domestic Violence Hotline. Heaven help us, that's not a pun. “I wasn’t in my conscious mind.”. “When I finished with the trial, in the beginning, geez, I couldn’t even go to the grocery store because people would say, ‘Oh my god, You know what, I know you.’ I just wanted to put my groceries down and go home,” Lorena said in still accented English. FACEBOOK That was the version of the story that Joshua Rofé, a documentarian who had made “Lost for Life,” about juveniles serving life sentences in prison, wanted to tell. For his part, John Wayne Bobbitt denied those accusations and continues to in new interviews that feel like a waste of time in a documentary that shouldn't be his. And there's more to it than that. 'Lorena' director Joshua Rofé and Lorena Bobbitt join The Hollywood Reporter at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival to talk about their documentary. Further down the road is the nail salon where she worked and fled to that night. Lorena Bobbitt is of Ecuadorian descent, … Lorena even opens with a Lorena being interviewed by Steven Harvey. I declined. (He was acquitted.) The reenactments in Lorena do nothing other than provide faceless, dully shot visualizations of events without generating any emotional or visceral response. “And it’s like they all missed or didn’t care why I did what I did,” she said. All rights reserved. My father-in-law has the biggest crush on you!” she said. This is my home. We forget about the string of witnesses at her trial who testified that they had seen bruises on her arms and neck and that she had called 911 repeatedly and that John had bragged to friends about forcing his wife to have sex. Both Lorena and John Wayne were frequently interviewed at the time — THR's Kim Masters, who scored the first Lorena Bobbitt interview for Vanity Fair, is a featured talking head — and neither has a perspective that has changed or evolved appreciably over two-plus decades. “That’s when I realized what happened to me could’ve happened to any woman in a desperate situation,” Lorena said. “I was with a lot of women, a lot of women and none of them ever complained, except Lorena —” He paused. The couple now have a 13-year-old daughter and live on a tidy street in a cream-colored brick house. Sie wurde zur Witzfigur und litt unter der von Männern dominierten Presse. No, it does not. “It’s all made up and I’m tired of it,” John said. 2 years ago | 123 views "Everything people remember about that story is particularly skewed in one very specific direction, and what this story that we’ve told does is recontexulize it in the way it should have really been told 25 years ago," director Joshua Rofe said. As she recalls it, John Wayne Bobbitt used … “They laugh,” she said several times during our afternoon together. What's shocking is how many people in positions of authority and respect are reduced to giggling and cracking wise when they talk about the Bobbitt case. They talked for nearly a year before Lorena, motivated by her outrage about the election of Donald J. Trump and, months later, the #MeToo movement, decided the climate was finally right to tell her side. Were John at all introspective, the long, tabloid-y stretches dedicated to his porn career and time at a Nevada brothel might be interesting. That is the first thing I noticed about her when we met. “And Joanna.” After we discussed the allegations, he proposed we keep talking over dinner at the Empire Hotel where he was staying. Lorena - Official Trailer | Prime Video Amazon’s documentary is a welcome attempt to correct the media imbalance at the time – then as, surely if … “It was like, ‘Oh yeah, so now a lot of women are going to do this,’” remembered Katha Pollitt, who wrote about the trial for The Nation. I don't doubt that you have to address and defuse the idea of the Bobbitt case as a punchline before you can get to the more provocative idea of the case as a snapshot of a nation in cultural flux. Here's what you need to know about the divorced couple. Back in the car, as Lorena pointed out the hospital where John had his surgery and where, just down the hall, she underwent a rape kit, I asked her if she regretted what she did. “She was never abused, she was always the abuser and she cut off my penis because I was going to leave her,” he said. 3) No. Before she agreed to put “the incident” back into the public’s imagination, Lorena talked to Peele, who explained to her that there would, inevitably, be comedy in this retelling. When I mention Lorena, a four-hour Amazon documentary about Lorena Bobbitt from executive producer Jordan Peele, after the winces or laughter, I typically get three questions: 1) If the 15th anniversary of a mediocre film's release is worthy of an oral history in our nostalgia-based culture, surely the 25th anniversary of the penis amputation felt around the world is worth a documentary or three. Doctors. (He denied the allegations.) The story of Lorena Bobbitt and her husband, John, whose sex organ she sliced off with a kitchen knife in 1993, is the subject of a new documentary executive-produced by Jordan Peele. That was all the media, before now, before the Women’s March and the #MeToo movement, when we were all less evolved as humans, wanted to talk about. It has been 26 years since Lorena Bobbitt, a 24-year-old wounded bird of a woman with dark, wiry hair and sad, penetrating eyes became so enshrined in the annals of popular culture that she makes a cameo in both a Philip Roth novel and Eminem lyrics. I asked when she decided to go blonde. So, why did she throw it away? “Lorena, right? She doesn’t remember anything after that. She later did hair and sold real estate. She never dated anyone else, she said, because, well, how can you date, really, when you are that Lorena? by She would talk to clients and learn that they, too, had been victims of domestic abuse. Attorneys on both sides. Producer: M. 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