I remember a news story from the day of her trial: one sex shop had held "Lorena Bobbit Sales" with prices for dildoes and vibrators cut half off...

For those that don't know why it made headlines.

According to Lorena, in the early hours of June 23, 1993, her husband came home drunk. He then raped her in their apartment. After the attack, she spotted a knife when she went into the kitchen. She returned to the bedroom and cut off her sleeping husband's penis.

Lorena, still holding the knife and the severed organ, then drove away from their apartment building. She tossed the penis into a field before ending up at a friend's house. At her friend's urging Lorena contacted the police and told them where she had thrown the penis. Police located it and reattachment surgery was a success.

Real life is crazier than fiction.

Lorena, who now goes by her maiden name of Gallo, still resides in Manassas with her daughter and partner of over 20 years, according to TIME.

She is an advocate for domestic violence and the founder of the Lorena Gallo Foundation, a nonprofit organization that provides domestic violence and sexual assault prevention, intervention and awareness services in Prince William County, Va.

“One of my missions is to educate the public and young women about the red flags in dating an abuser. I go to colleges and talk to sororities,” she told TIME in 2018. “I volunteer in local shelters for victims of domestic violence in northern Virginia. I’m a facilitator. I’m not a doctor, I’m not a psychologist — but we teach them to set boundaries, so eventually they end up figuring out the answer themselves.”

Lorena has also been involved in several of the projects that tell her side of the story, including Prime Video’s 2019 docuseries Lorena, which was produced by Jordan Peele.

Lorena & Aileen 💕