Bethany Storro Gets Acid Thrown in Her Face by Unknown Woman

UPDATE: Of all the ways to get a little attention...Bethany Storro now admits it was all a hoax. There was no random attacker; she threw the acid on her own face.

Bethany Storro had just gotten something out of her car and was about to head to a Starbucks in Vancouver, Washington. That's when a woman approached her out of the blue and said, "Hey pretty girl, do you want to drink this?" The woman then threw a cup of liquid, which ended up being some form of acid, in her face.

Bethany is now recovering at a hospital burn center. And while one's immediate thought is that this is a revenge attack over some perceived sin or slight, she says she doesn't even know the woman, who's only described as black with slicked back hair in a pony-tail.

We're not certain about the extent of Bethany's injuries, but it seems a pair of sunglasses she'd purchased just hours before saved her from going blind. Which, considering her family says she never wears sunglasses, has to stand as some kind of miracle.

"Who wakes up in the morning and says, 'I'm going to go and burn somebody's face with acid?'" her mother Nancy Neuwelt told KOMO. "It's pretty bizarre. I don't know what kind of a person -- obviously, there's something wrong. But we're going to do what we need to do."

Like Bethany's mother, police are also stumped as to what kind of person would do this. They have no suspects, and are hoping someone saw something around 7 p.m. on Monday night when the incident happened.

UPDATE: Storro pulled out of a planned Oprah appearance earlier in the week, which one paper interpreted as a sign that she was making the whole thing up.

On her Facebook page, Storro initially wrote that she wanted to go on the show to "inspire people and tell them about Jesus." She canceled, she said, because the "he show was going to possibly turn into another direction." What that direction is, however, no one is saying.

Storro's friends and family are understandably unimpressed with the claim that the attack is a hoax. As are Vancouver police, who say that right now they have no reason to suspect Storro's wounds were self-inflicted.

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