‘It all went wrong': Victim speaks out after woman arrested for giving Botox without license
A South Florida woman says she had to go to the hospital after getting lip fillers, Botox and buttock injections from someone who is now charged with performing the procedures without a license.
On Thursday, Broward County detectives arrested Megan Whitcomb, who is accused of practicing medicine without a license. She bonded out of jail Friday night.
The victim, who wanted to remain anonymous, told NBC6 that she is doing better, but described what she went through last year as painful and upsetting.
“I was shocked, I was disappointed, I didn’t know what to say,” she said. “At the hospital, they told me I was not injected with what I thought I was being injected with.”
She didn’t know that Whitcomb did not have a license to perform the procedures. She said she was too afraid to speak up at first, but she wants to now so this doesn’t happen to anyone else.
The victim said the pain from the injections was unbearable.
“It felt like I was being stabbed, the burning,” she said.
She and Whitcomb met each other through social media.
“She was a really warm, kind-hearted person and I’m like OK, she doesn’t seem like she could do anything wrong, until it all went wrong,” she said.
She went to Whitcomb’s Oakland Park home three different times last year to get the procedure done, and each time she left in extreme pain. She took a picture of all the needles inside Whitcomb’s home, but she kept going back.
“She assured me that I was being a little dramatic and that everything was fine and that I was going to get the best deal that I could ever find with her, and there was nothing I needed to worry about,” she said.
During one trip, she said Whitcomb gave her a pill to take that she ended up throwing up. The other two times, Whitcomb gave her what she described as rock crystal.
But the third round of injections was the most painful, she said, and the procedure lasted 12 hours.
“The pain that I endured every single time and the infections that started from it just wasn’t pleasant,” she said.
The victim checked herself into a hospital and said it took her months to heal. Her skin was bruised, and doctors had to manually drain her buttocks.
The victim said someone reached out to her, claiming Whitcomb gave injections to other women. Broward detectives soon got involved.
“I realized the worse the situation got, the more I realized this is not OK, and I didn’t want it to happen to somebody else like it happened to me,” she said.
On Thursday, someone with the Florida Department of Health and an Oakland Park detective went undercover and scheduled a Botox appointment at Whitcomb’s home, an arrest report said. They noted the room in which Whitcomb performed her procedures was not clean. Detectives arrested Whitcomb after they said she came out with the medicine to inject into their muscles.
“I thought that my situation would scare her enough to the point where she would stop completely, but she didn’t stop, she kept going,” the victim said.
The victim regrets the decisions she made, but said she’s glad she decided to speak up.
“I want her to understand the pain she caused me, and it’s not OK, and that she should be practicing and understand stuff like this can hurt somebody seriously,” she said.
