Pelosi reveals surgeons had to remove husband’s skull and reshape it after attack

Speaker Nancy Pelosi has revealed that her husband was so gravely injured following the hammer attack at their San Francisco home that surgeons had to ‘take off the skull, reshape it, and put it back’. ‘It had cracked,’ a shaken Ms Pelosi told CNN, adding that Paul Pelosi’s head was struck ‘on the top, in two places’. The suspect, David DePape, was after the speaker when he broke into the home in the middle of the night, repeatedly shouting ‘where’s Nancy?”What they have to do is they have to take off the skull, reshape it, and put it back so it isn’t scratched or [could] pierce the brain,’ Ms Pelosi told CNN. She remembered it as ‘a pretty serious operation’ and that her husband’s injuries were ‘drastic’ and ‘pretty awful’. ‘But the good news was … they told us it had not pierced his brain, which could be deadly,’ she added. The speaker said one of the more difficult things to handle is that the attacker was after her, not her husband, but he was still the one who was injured. ‘For me, this is really the hard part – because Paul was not the target, and he’s the one who’s paying the price,’ she said. ‘It’s really sad because it is a flame that was fueled by misinformation … that has no place in our democracy,’ she added. More follows…