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Lorena Bobbitt has no regrets about the infamous night, nearly 26 years ago, when she chopped off her husband’s penis.

“How can you regret something that was not planned?” Bobbitt, 49, says in a snippet of an interview for the “Today” show that will air Friday.

“You have to understand, I wasn’t in my right mindset.”

The interview comes in advance of the new Amazon documentary “Lorena,” which aims to retell the sensationalized story in order to address issues of domestic violence and sexual assault.

Bobbitt has always maintained that her then-husband John Wayne Bobbitt raped and abused her — including on the night of June 23, 1993, when, after he fell asleep, she hacked off his penis with a kitchen knife.

It was reattached following a 10-hour surgery, and John Wayne went on to have a career in porn.

The gruesome story made headlines around the world, but Lorena tried to stay out of the spotlight.

She says people focused more on what she did rather than why, “based on the act itself, that it was a severe organ, a male organ.”

With this new documentary, she hopes to steer the story away from the gory details and onto the alleged abuse that lead her to cut off her ex’s penis in the first place.

“As a victim… I felt very alone, isolated. I thought it was happening to me only,” Bobbitt says in another clip.

“I applaud the MeToo and TimesUp because those are voices that need to be heard, we need to be strong and I think my story, documentary, will actually push that conversation on the table again.”

“Yes we had this happen 25 years ago but things are not changing much, things need to be changed a lot more.”

The series premiered at The Sundance Film Festival on Jan. 29 and will launch on Amazon Prime Feb. 15.

via: https://nypost.com/2019/02/07/lorena-bobbitt-opens-up-about-the-night-she-cut-off-john-waynes-penis/