Model Left with Devastating Injuries After Dubai Party Turns into Nightmare

Warning: This article contains allegations some readers may find distressing.

A Ukrainian model who suffered catastrophic injuries after attending a party in Dubai is speaking out about her long and painful recovery nearly a year later — and the justice she says never came.

Maria Kovalchuk traveled to Dubai to create content for her OnlyFans account. According to her account, a missed flight changed everything. After oversleeping on her final night in the city, she stayed an extra evening and accepted an invitation to a party hosted by wealthy young men.

What followed, she alleges, was a violent nightmare.

Kovalchuk says her belongings were taken, she was humiliated, and when she tried to flee, she was chased down near a construction site. She recalls being struck in the head and later waking up with devastating injuries. She was eventually found on the side of a road and placed into an induced coma.

For more than a week, loved ones feared she had vanished — or worse, been trafficked. Doctors later confirmed she had suffered a broken spine, broken legs, and multiple other injuries that left her unable to walk.

Now, after 10 months of intensive rehabilitation and at least 10 major surgeries, Kovalchuk is sharing signs of hope. Once confined to a wheelchair, she has posted videos showing herself walking unaided across a snow-covered bridge in Norway, where she continues treatment.

“I kept wondering how I would live with these injuries — disfigured, broken — and how I would go on,” she wrote on social media. “Now I’m rising from the ashes and learning to believe again.”

Kovalchuk has warned other young women not to chase wealth or powerful men, saying the promise of luxury can hide serious danger. She says her perspective on life has completely changed, and that healing has come not just from medicine, but from the support of family and friends.

Despite the severity of her injuries, Kovalchuk says no one has been held accountable. Dubai police have not named suspects, and her mother, Anna, claims evidence — including surveillance footage — was allowed to disappear.

“She was cut with a blade and partially scalped,” her mother said in a Ukrainian television interview, describing injuries that appeared more consistent with a beating than a fall. A neurosurgeon who reviewed Kovalchuk’s injuries reportedly agreed, saying they did not align with a fall from a great height.

Authorities have previously suggested she may have jumped, a claim her family strongly denies. Medical tests reportedly showed she was not intoxicated at the time.

Today, Kovalchuk says she still doesn’t fully remember what happened in her final moments that night — only the aftermath, and the long road back.

“I don’t know whether I was beaten or thrown,” she said. “But I know what I survived.”

She continues to recover in Norway, walking, stretching, and rebuilding her life — while still waiting for answers.