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John Bobbitt on wife's infamous knife assault: 'I thought I was going to die'

"It was something out of a horror movie," John Bobbitt remembers that fateful night in 1993 on "20/20" 25 years after his then-wife Lorena Bobbitt cut off his penis with a kitchen knife.

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