"It was gross," Rideau said of the video. "And to know that she never stopped dancing while she was doing my procedure goes to show why my body is disfigured and messed up."

Davis-Boutte came highly recommended by a friend of Rideau, she said, so she arranged to have surgery with her on Feb. 21, 2017.

Four days after her surgery, Davis-Boutte sent her a text message about the video. Rideau shared it with The Times.

"Hey, check out today's IG post..."Cut It" is your song, girlfriend!...You did awesome!!!" the text said, referring to an Instagram page that is now private. "So if you want to tell people that that is you, go for it!!!"

Rideau, who was still recovering from the surgery, said she was still heavily medicated and didn't fully understand the message. She recalled clicking on the video, but didn't watch it all.
Then, in May, she saw it on the news.

"I said, 'That's me,'" she recalled.
Davis-Boutte's profile on the Composite State Board of Medical Examiners website lists four medical malpractice settlements between October 2017 and February 2018. Three were for $900,000 or more, with the highest settlement being $1 million.
A lawsuit brought by the guardian of Icilma Cornelius, who was injured in February 2016 during liposuction surgery, was settled for an undisclosed amount, Witt said.

Witt said her three other cases against Davis-Boutte are pending. The lawsuits allege that Davis-Boutte not only botched procedures but also used unqualified staff, misled her patients and worked in an unsafe environment.

Cornelius paid more than $11,200 to remove hanging skin and fat from the lower abdomen and to perform liposuction on various parts of her body, according to the complaint. But during the surgery she went into cardiac arrest and now suffers from a brain injury and other conditions that have left her reliant on a feeding tube, the complaint said. She will require extensive medical care and "assistance with all aspects of daily living" for the rest of her life, the documents said.

In a statement a day before Davis-Boutte was suspended, her publicist insisted that the dermatologist was a "known expert in this field" with "decades of experience and a countless number of clients."

"She is authorized to perform cosmetic surgery," the statement said. "She is dedicated and committed to giving her clients the utmost professional, masterful surgical expertise and experience."

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