N.Y. model didn’t know she’d been shot

NEW YORK – The model and actress shot inside a train in Times Square appeared on national morning television Friday, saying the bullet “came out of nowhere” and thanking New Yorkers who came to her aid.

Smiling and speaking rapidly, Monica Meadows recalled on NBC’s “Today” show that she had no idea she was shot until she “felt heat.”

“I stood up and saw blood everywhere and realized that something had happened to me,” said Meadows, adding that she was commuting from her agency to a casting call when she was shot Tuesday.

But it wasn’t until two good Samaritans, who she identified as Donna and Ashley, helped her that the Georgia-born Meadows knew she was shot, she told the CBS program, “The Early Show.”

“I’m still standing here,” added Meadows, who has vowed to remain in New York to pursue her dream.

Meadows’ newfound fame comes a day after she was discharged under cover of tinted car windows from Bellevue Hospital Center in Manhattan.

Since then, she has been dodging paparazzi and reporters camped in front of her West 50th Street apartment.

Asked about insinuations she had orchestrated the shooting as a publicity stunt, Meadows said, “I can’t believe anyone would even suggest that.”

She said she had no idea who could have shot her and didn’t see her assailant; detectives have yet to finger a gunman.