In his own words, author Salman Rushdie describes the moments when a stranger rushed at him on stage in western New York and began attacking him.

It was the first time that the author had come face-to-face with the suspect since the 2022 stabbing, which left him blind in one eye.

The author recounted in vivid testimony the moment when an attacker stabbed him about 15 times as he was about to give a lecture in western New York.