"He never said a word, I never said a word – it was completely out of the blue," she said.
Wilson's friend responded to her screams to "go and get him" and was able to take down the number plate details of the car they believed the person who threw the bottle had gotten into.
Paramedics were there in four minutes and police in six.
The well-known real estate agent required a total of 30 stitches – three layers of ten – to close a deep laceration "right down to the bone" above her right eye.
She said she was still struggling with severe swelling and had lost feeling in a large portion of her face where the butt of the bottle had hit.
"I was in shock. I was in shock right up until I held the protest on Sunday. I didn't want to just sit back and I will not be a victim of this."
"We will not put up with this garbage," she said.
The protest, held on the corner of Jack Boyd Dr and Mangawhai Heads Rd, was part of Wilson's determination to hold the people responsible for violence accountable.
"It was extremely healing. I came home after that and slept soundly for the first time since it happened," she said.
A police spokesman said a man has been summonsed to appear in the North Shore District Court on a charge of assault with a blunt instrument.
He is expected to appear on September 7.
