Two Alabama women last week faced each other on television to recount their sides of a 2021 dog attack that resulted in injuries to the woman and the euthanization of the canine.

Teri Angel and Valina Jackson appeared on the “Dr. Phil” show with the host, Phil McGraw, to talk about the incident that happened in a Guntersville home in September 2021.

Angel and Jackson were friends at the time of the attack, according to Angel.

Angel told McGraw and the studio audience that she was visiting a friend in a hospital bed in Jackson’s home when the attack happened.

Angel said the dog, Havoc, at first grazed her arm, then tore off part of her scalp as she leaned on the bed. She also had deep bites to her arm.

At first, Jackson was upset by the “horrific” attack, but later was in “cover up mode.”

A 5 inch by 10 inch section of the scalp was torn from Angel’s head that surgeons could not reattach, she said. Instead, doctors used a skin graft from Angel’s thigh to repair the damage.

Jackson, in talking to McGraw, said Angel exaggerated her injuries, which were not serious. Though the two were friends, Jackson contended that Angel was trespassing when the incident happened.

“The insurance company didn’t pay because of that,” she said. “I filed it on my homeowners rental insurance, and they didn’t pay, because they said she was like a burglar.”

Angel said she was paid by the insurance company.

“There aren’t versions of the truth,” McGraw said. “She either was invited to the home or she wasn’t, they either paid or they didn’t, and this was either a serious attack or it wasn’t.”

Jackson, after seeing several statements, accused Angel of paying people to exaggerate the attack. Jackson did say during the program that she at first denied the dog belonged to her.

“I probably did say that,” she said.

Havoc, a pit bull terrier mix which was euthanized in January, was the subject of a lawsuit which made it all the way to the Alabama Supreme Court.

The City of Guntersville impounded the dog following a court hearing the following month. The dog’s disposition was handled according to “Emily’s Law,” a 2018 state law named for Emily Colvin, the 24-year-old victim in a fatal 2017 dog attack.

After a hearing, Jackson was arrested in November 2021, along with two other people, for allegedly breaking into the animal shelter where the dog was being held and taking him.

The Alabama Supreme Court later affirmed a decision to euthanize the dog. Jackson was also ordered to reimburse the city of Guntersville for the costs of holding Havoc.

“I hate that it happened, but you can only do so much to a dog,” Jackson said during the program. “If you’re scared of him, why did you sit right beside him?”