Sims said Fordham knew that she was planning on leaving him when he pretended to slip and splash an industrial-strength drain cleaner on her face, neck, arms and chest.
As she screamed in pain and begged him to call 911, she said Fordham refused to help rinse her off.
Instead, he claimed that washing her off would only intensify the chemicals, a claim which countered what a 911 dispatcher told him on the phone only moments before, Sims said.
"He said, 'They said to sit down and wait for the ambulance because if you rinse yourself off, you're going to ignite the chemical,'"
she previously recalled to WSB-TV.
When paramedics finally arrived they hosed her down, but by then her skin was left permanently scarred.
