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This is the horrific moment a young woman was glassed in the face at a pub - after smiling at another woman she thought she knew.

Rosie Skitt, 25, from Sheffield, was left scarred for life after 20-year-old Charlotte Green slammed a wine glass into her face in the brutal attack .

Earlier in the night, she had smiled at Green - whom she had recognised from her sister's football team - while enjoying a quiet drink , a court heard.

But the younger woman mistook her look as "sarcastic", reacting by marching over and striking her with the glass, leaving blood gushing from her face.

Rosie needed 25 stitches to a 3cm gash on her left cheek, a 2cm cut to her eyelid and a 1cm cut to her brow after the vicious attack in May 2015.

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Now, in her first full interview, she has has revealed how she still struggles with all the unanswered questions surrounding the incident.

“I’ve never received an explanation," said Rosie, an administrator. “If I could speak to her now, I’d ask her why. I just want to know what I did to warrant this."

She added: "We’d never had any trouble in the past and in that one moment, she changed both our lives forever."

Rosie, from Jordanthorpe, was in The Chantrey pub in Woodseats, Sheffield, with friends on May 29, 2015, when she spotted Green at the bar.

Recognising the woman as a member of the football team her 18-year-old sister, Georgia, played for, she smiled.

But Green told police she believed the grin was sarcastic . She marched over, before slamming a wine glass into her victim's face, Sheffield Crown Court heard.

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A friend later told the court that Green could go from “being the life and soul of the party” to “looking for trouble”.

Recalling the attack, Rosie said: “When she [Green] came over, I thought it would be to ask after Georgia, but instead she asked if I had a problem with her.

"I was really taken aback and told her that I didn’t, but she accused me of looking at her funny all night.

“I tried to explain that I’d only looked because I recognised her and that I didn’t want to get into any kind of altercation.

“As soon as I’d finished that sentence, though, she hit me.”

Unaware of the blood pouring from her face, Rosie initially thought she had simply been punched. However, the severity of her wounds soon became clear.

Police were called, but Green left before they arrived.

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Rosie was taken to Sheffield’s Northern General Hospital, where she was horrified to hear a nurse mention plastic surgery.

“At that point, I still hadn’t looked in a mirror, so I didn’t realise how serious it was,” she recalled.

“A nurse examined me and told me my injuries were a job for plastic surgery. As soon as I heard that I thought, ‘I’m in trouble here.’”

Because Rosie was being treated as a crime scene by police, doctors couldn’t clean the blood off her right away.

So when she first glimpsed herself in a bathroom mirror, while getting changed for an X-Ray, she said her reflection was shocking.

After being kept in overnight, she underwent surgery the next day.

She needed a total of 25 stitches, and m edics also discovered she had severed a nerve in the middle finger on her left hand.

This had occurred when Rosie had lifted her hand to shield her face.

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The next day, Green was arrested.

Initially, she was due to stand trial after pleading not guilty to grievous bodily harm with intent, which can carry a life sentence.

But the prosecution accepted a lesser charge of grievous bodily harm, which Green admitted and, in November 2016, she was jailed for 18 months.

“I wasn’t in court for the sentencing,” said Rosie. “I read an impact statement and left. I couldn’t stand the idea of listening to her barrister defend her."

She added that it was a "huge relief" to discover Green had been imprisoned.

"She’s got to take this time out of her life and think about what she did to me every day," she said.

Although Rosie has been left with a permanent scar, she is having ongoing surgery in a bid to reduce it.

She has Botox injections every six months to help repair the nerve damage to her eye.

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And she is due to undergo surgery where medics will remove fat from her stomach and place it in her cheek.

But while she can live with the physical scars, Rosie said the emotional impact of Green’s attack is harder to deal with.

“I’ve been seeing a psychologist to help me, but it’s been hard to accept that there are people out there that’ll do this kind of thing for no reason,” she explained.

“I don’t go out as much now. I can’t bear the idea of getting ready and my scar never looking any better.

“Because we’re from a small area, I worry about bumping into people she knows, or being stopped and asked about what happened.

“I’m trying to move on, but it’s difficult when I’m constantly reminded.”

With the help of her family, friends and boyfriend, roofer Luke Bann, 22, whom she met in July 2016, Rosie is feeling positive about her future.

“My family are my rock, and my friends were all there waiting for me when I got home from hospital," she said. “I met Luke after it all happened, so I was nervous to tell him, but it didn’t faze him at all. "

She added: “If it weren’t for my amazing support system, I wouldn’t be where I am now."