According to Brooklinn, she had met the canine who attacked her galore times earlier the incident. In a 2021 interrogation with People, the jock recalled however the pit bull "sprung from a sitting position" to maul her face.

"I was standing, and helium was sitting," she explained a twelvemonth aft the incident, "he virtually conscionable sprung up. And helium was literally, hanging — virtually similar arms, legs hanging disconnected of my lip. And my archetypal instinct was like, 'Oh my God, get connected the crushed with him, clasp his head, spell wherever helium goes.'"

She added, "Finally, I felt a release. And then, thing flew and deed the wall."

Since the attack, Brooklinn has been unfastened astir her experience and precocious recalled being scared about her injuries soon aft it happened.

"I wrote this a fewer months aft I got into the attack, 'I don't expect anyone to recognize due to the fact that however could you,'" she began her Dec. 12 Instagram. "I don't cognize however to explicate the mode that I consciousness erstwhile I look successful the mirror. It's arsenic if I'm a stranger, embodied successful idiosyncratic I've known before. She's somewhat familiar, but carries herself differently. I look up astatine myself and I spot idiosyncratic who has been patched up, to screen a mistake that should ne'er person happened. I spot idiosyncratic who's exhausted from having to explicate herself, to a nine that's infatuated by perfection. She is idiosyncratic who's trying to emotion what she sees but she's frightened of what she is seeing.'"

Though the 23-year-old antecedently said it was hard to spot what the aboriginal looked similar aft the attack, she present knows it was meant to marque her stronger.

She added, "Thank God for giving maine the strength, and the radical I person successful my beingness to assistance maine grow, and proceed to spot the process."