An existing thin cornea coupled with the impact of brushing it with the towel is believed to have caused Ms Willis to rupture her eye. Ms Willis said: 'I was devastated, and I just couldn't understand how my life had come to this or where to go from here.' Claire Willis' grisly eyeball injury Claire Willis, 45, was drying her face with a towel in a Turkish hotel when she heard her eyeball 'pop'. When her socket has fully healed, Ms Willis will have a prosthetic eye fitted. 'He removed the middle of my eye - the retina and cornea - and fitted a cosmetic shell over the lens of my eye.'

Source: Daily Mail October 16, 2019 10:47 UTC