'These days when I'm recognized it's a positive thing,' Mary Jo says, 'But back then it was me at the grocery store being stared at, yelled at'. Because of the assault her face is still partially paralyzed, she's deaf in her right ear and the bullet is still lodged in her neck. I had two young children still in school, I had to think about them,' she said of moving frequently. 'I'm a housewife, not a movie star, I wasn't used to it. She now lives in the San Fernando Valley after moving 20 times to get away from the public attention after the shooting. I'm content, I'm happy, I'm very grateful'. As the anniversary of the day that changed her life approaches, Mary Jo tells 'I don't want a ''poor me'' story. The bullet lodged in the base of her brain above the spinal column but Mary Jo survived, and then endured multiple surgeries and facial reconstruction. Mary Jo Buttafuoco was shot in the face in 1992 by teenage Amy Fisher, who had been having an affair with her husband Joey.
