After a violent attack, one woman is taking a stand and speaking out in hopes that her story will prevent anything likes hers from happening again.

Police charged Christopher Brian Campbell with domestic violence of a high and aggravated nature after they say he bit part of Michelle Messer’s nose off.

Messer a 35-year-old mother of two spent the last four days at MUSC in Charleston.

“He looked at me and said I have to kill you,” said Messer. “He said I have to kill you because no one can ever know this was me,” she added.

Messer is out of the hospital but the healing process is only just beginning.

“It hurts for me to bend over, it hurts for me to talk sometimes, I can’t cough. Anything that provides any pressure to my face feels like someone is taking a sledgehammer to it,” she said.

Messer says she ran into Campbell, her ex-boyfriend, at a bar.

The two were also business partners and she says when they left to speak in his car at 2 p.m. about upcoming projects she thought nothing of it.

She says that changed the minute Campbell locked her in the car.

“I just remember this is it; I knew it right at that moment that he was going to kill me,” said Messer.

Campbell was out on $75,000 bond for a 2013 murder charge.

Messer says she was aware of the charge however, several people stood by Campbell and it was difficult not to believe their stories.

“I’m always the type; I want to give people the benefit of the doubt and I didn’t know about all of his other past doings aside from that incident,” said Messer.

She said a few weeks before the attack she called police because Campbell verbally threatened her.

She says this is why they broke up.

“I mean there was signs I should have seen and I missed and there were other signs that I ignored, but didn’t realize I was ignoring,” said Messer.

Messer says she was outraged with the charges Campbell received, but believes this attack happened for a reason.

“I want the most absolute severe charges because that is what he deserves for what he did to me, but he is not the only one who deserves it and I’m definitely not going to be the last woman who endures something like this,” she said.

The Horry County Sheriff’s office told News 13 the press is unable to interview current inmates at J. Reuben long.

At last check Campbell remains in jail.

No bail was set.