life after a brutal attack by a john almost killed her. >> again, occurred with a customer who began to beat me up to take his money back after we got through and i tried to get out of the car to get away from him and he started the car up and was driving off and as i tried to get away from him, my clothes caught hold to the door and he drug me for six blocks and tore the skin off my body, my face. >> reporter: disfigured and near death, brenda was taken to cook county hospital. there, she says, she was pushed to the back of the line for treatment because she was a prostitute. >> i felt worthless and even people who took an oath to help people didn't want to help a prostitu prostitute. i wanted to die. >> now married with a family of her own, brenda said she is living proof that working girls like chanel can turn their lives