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CNN  — 

Kelley Paul, the wife of Sen. Rand Paul is breaking the silence about the mysterious circumstances surrounding the attack against her husband that occurred at their home earlier this month.

In an op-ed for CNN, Paul writes that she has “been distraught over seeing him suffer like this,” and that “there have been several nights where I had my hand on my phone ready to call 911 when his breathing became so labored it was terrifying.”

“This was not a ‘scuffle,’ a ‘fight’ or an ‘altercation,’ as many in the media falsely describe it,” Paul wrote. “It was a deliberate, blindside attack.”

The Kentucky Republican lawmaker said on Twitter on November 8 that he had been diagnosed with six broken ribs and a pleural effusion following an incident where his neighbor allegedly assaulted him.

The attorney for the alleged attacker called the situation “a very regrettable dispute between two neighbors over a matter that most people would regard as trivial,” in a statement earlier this month.

However, Paul said in the op-ed that neither she nor her husband had spoken to the neighbor in 10 years.

“With Rand’s travel to D.C. in the last seven years, he has rarely seen this man at all,” she wrote.

“The only “dispute” existed solely in the attacker’s troubled mind,” Paul said, describing her side of the story, “until, on a beautiful autumn day, he ran down the hill on our property and slammed his body into Rand’s lower back as he stood facing away, wearing noise canceling headphones to protect his ears from the lawnmower.”