Her bid for serenity blew up in her face.
A former City Hall official claims she was seriously hurt when she lit a Bath & Body Works candle and it exploded, sending “searing” hot wax into her face and arms.
Renita Francois’ life has been “irrevocably changed” since the Jan. 19, 2023 incident in her Valley Stream, LI, home, when a three-wick “Sweater Weather” candle exploded as she leaned in to take a whiff, sending “a shockwave of fire and debris directly into her face,” according to a lawsuit.
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The heat of the blast left her skin “sizzling,” singed off her eyebrows, melted her eyelashes and left her face and arms seriously scarred, the mother of two claimed, calling the pain “instant, unrelenting, and beyond anything she had ever experienced.”…