Burn Victim's Mom Slams Monster Husband Who Left Her Alone To Struggle
July 19 2017, Updated 2:36 p.m. ET
On September, 30, 2016 the unthinkable happened to beautiful Georgia mom Courtney Waldon. The 27-year-old was left disfigured from horrific burns — and then abandoned by her husband. Her mother, Karen Cosper, slammed her son-in-law in an exclusive interview with RadarOnline.com
Courtney is headed back to surgery in the morning. The doctor will graft her skin for her neck again! Praying it will take as it should this time🙏🙏
Posted by Courtney's Comeback on Tuesday, February 21, 2017
Waldon and her husband were celebrating their two-year anniversary at a campfire when things took a turn for the worse. Waldon's husband got up to relight the fire by swinging a can of gas, causing some of the gas to hit her body. Flames immediately engulfed her.
Waldon suffered fourth-degree burns on her face and third degree burns on her hands, legs and feet. But luckily she survived.
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Posted by Courtney's Comeback on Monday, March 6, 2017
Doctors say had she not been so close to the hospital in that moment, she wouldn't be alive today.
Courtney is out of surgery and waiting on a room in the burn unit. The doctor is more confident this one will take. He is going to take precautions and keep her a few days to observe.
Posted by Courtney's Comeback on Wednesday, February 22, 2017
Following 51 days in the hospital and a 30-day coma, Waldon returned home to her 5-year old daughter, Caroline, whom she had from a previous relationship.
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Two weeks later, her husband left her — leaving Waldon devastated.
Courtney after surgery today.
Posted by Courtney's Comeback on Thursday, January 26, 2017
Waldon's mother, Karen Cosper exclusively spoke to RadarOnline.com about her daughter's husband's decision to leave her following the horrific incident.
"I was upset. He broke her heart. He left her in a very mean way too. He was very ugly to her," Cosper recalled. "She begged him to stay with her and he just said mean things, like how he couldn't be there with her, how he couldn't support her. He's not a man."
Courtney has officially transitioned from the Critical care stage to the standard burn patient classification. Praise...
Posted by Courtney's Comeback on Saturday, November 5, 2016
"He left her without a cell phone or any money, and left the four year old in the middle of the night. It was just a bad situation," Cosper continued. "He would mess with her. I just know that he would tell her that he would come by and come back to possibly work things out, and then he would never show up."
“It was a blessing in disguise,” Waldon told PEOPLE. “I think if he was around he would be holding me down. I wouldn’t be as strong as I am today and wouldn’t have made as much progress.The support I've received has been unbelievable"
Unfortunately the old house that Courtney's family was trying to obtain for Courtney and Caroline to live in has fell...
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A GoFundMe Page has been set up to help Waldon pay off her medical bills