A Delaware mom who claims she was savagely beaten while vacationing in the Dominican Republic says she blames herself for the attack that nearly killed her.

Tammy Lawrence-Daley is still reeling from the alleged January assault, which left her with a broken nose, fractured hand, partial hearing loss in her left ear and her mouth “ripped apart,” she said in an interview with People magazine published Thursday.

“I internalize this. ‘This is my fault, I got myself into this situation,’” she said. “I feel horrendous that I put my husband and my friends through this situation. Their lives are changed forever, as well as mine.”

The 51-year-old from Wilmington was on vacation with her husband and their married friends at the all-inclusive Majestic Elegance resort in Punta Cana when Lawrence-Daley was attacked from behind, dragged down concrete stairs and thrown into a crawl space filled with wastewater.

She claimed she was beaten with a club and strangled by a man wearing a Majestic Elegance uniform — and also possibly sexually assaulted due to “damage down there.”

A rape kit was administered at the hospital, but too much time had passed for it to give definitive results.

“I couldn’t sit up without dry heaves because my face was battered so badly,” Lawrence-Daley recalled. “When I finally could sit up, all I could think of was, ‘I’m never going to get out of here, I’m going to die here, they will never find me.’”

Lawrence-Daley’s eyes were swollen shut and she was drifting in and out of consciousness — making it difficult to remember exactly what happened, she said.

Her attacker left behind her phone and bag before fleeing — but she was unable to use Siri to make a call because there was no service in what she called “the hole.”

“There was a point I sat there picking up stones seeing if I could hit something metal like a door, trying to gauge how big the space was [or] if there was a door somewhere nearby I could get out of,” she said.

“It’s a crazy thing when you’re in that mindset. It’s the survival mechanism kicks in and says, ‘I’m not going down without a fight,’” she added.

Lawrence-Daley said she was rescued the next morning — eight hours after she left her hotel room for a snack — when she heard voices on the floor above her and called out for help.

She said her attacker took one thing she’ll never get back.

“I always said the one thing I loved about myself was my smile,” she said. “I always have a smile for everybody, I love my sense of humor and that’s the one thing that guy stole from me. He stole my smile and that just kills me.”

Lawrence-Daley said it took her time to come forward with her story on Facebook, some four months after she was assaulted.

“I’m at the point where I feel strong enough that I want to get this information out there because women need to understand they can’t walk around by themselves,” she said. “I hate to say that, but it’s the truth. What I went through, I would never wish on anyone.”

Since the attack, Lawrence-Daley has returned part-time to her job as a finance manager, but now has to work in a personal office so she can see people coming.

“I do have issues today reacting to men and them coming at me, even in a friendly manner … My head is on a swivel,” she said. “I’m looking out the corner of my eye, I’m turning around. I can’t walk down corridors without having panic attacks.”