Wax hot in bad way at Madame Tussauds: lawsuit

Bronx

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

Published: Wednesday, April 2, 2014, 2:03 PM

Updated: Wednesday, April 2, 2014, 2:48 PM

Tahkyia Brady of the Bronx contends in a lawsuit that she suffered second-degree burns to her hand while making a souvenir at Madame Tussauds in Times Square.

A Bronx woman who says she got burned by Madame Tussauds is suing the Times Square wax emporium.

Tahkyia Brady alleges she suffered real blisters when she bought a souvenir at the showplace of celebrity copies.

Brady, a Michael Jackson fan, was celebrating her two-year wedding anniversary when she and her wife decided to check out the King of Pop’s likeness at the 42nd St. museum April 27.

The employee … pulled my hand out the last time and my skin literally fell off.

After posing for pictures with the model of the “Heal the World” singer, the pair decided to purchase a wax mold of their hands in the shape of a heart.

“I thought it would be nice to have a souvenir for our anniversary,” Brady said of the $ 13 hand cast. “All I got was burned.”

Worth the burns?: Tahkyia Brady says of the Madame Tussaud’s souvenir that left her injured, ‘The cast of our hands look like crap.’

Brady, 34, a juvenile counselor in the Bronx, said she became uncomfortable after placing her hand into the wax cylinder. After a quick dip in some ice water the employee returned her hand to the scalding hot wax.

“I kept complaining that it was too hot,” she said. “The employee shrugged and guessed it was about 175 degrees. He pulled my hand out the last time and my skin literally fell off.”

‘We shouldn’t even have gone in,’ Tahkyia Brady says of a trip to Madame Tussauds that left her burned — and suing the museum. “Their statue of [Michael Jackson] didn’t look real.’

A manager gave her cream to put on her wrist and hand but Brady said it only made things worse.

“By the time I got home it was blistering and really red,” she said.

‘I kept complaining that it was too hot,’ Tahkyia Brady said of wax used to create a cast of her hand at Madame Tussauds. ‘By the time I got home it was blistering and really red.’

The following day, Brady went to an urgent-care facility and was treated for second-degree burns.

Brady, who has her own life-sized plaster replica of the Gloved One in her Parkchester apartment, said she filed the suit, which seeks unspecified damages, in Bronx Supreme Court on Monday.

The Jackson fan says she wants the tourist trap to puts up signs warning others of the dangerous memento maker.

“We shouldn’t even have gone in,” the part-time music producer said. “Their statue didn’t look real and the cast of our hands looks like crap.”

The wax museum issued a statement Wednesday saying, “We have not seen a copy of the lawsuit and cannot comment about it at this time. What we can say is that the safety of our patrons is the first consideration at Madame Tussauds New York.”

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