Lele Pons reveals she was attacked by pit bull while defending her dog from being mauled

Lele Pons has revealed she was attacked by a pit bull after it attempted to savage her dog.

The YouTube star, 27, made the grisly admission as she played Family Feud-inspired game Rent Free for Bilt Rewards with CEO Ankur Jain - showing off her injured hand.

She said: 'I was attacked by a pit bull, well my dog was about to get attacked by a pit bull, it came running to my dog.

'It grabbed my dog, the moment it grabbed it opened its mouth I put my hand in, it's so strong.

'The dog was going for my dog, I'm a mom! I got stitches!'

Lele Pons has revealed she was attacked by a pit bull after it attempted to savage her dog

The YouTube star, 27, made the grisly admission as she played Family Feud-inspired game Rent Free for Bilt Rewards - showing off her injured hand - she is pictured with dog Toby 

The star revealed she had delayed treatment on her hand - which was covered in a bloody bandage - to come play the game.

She added the injury had taken place '15 hours ago.' 

Lele was born in the Venezuelan capital Caracas and moved to the US when she was five years old.   

Her raunchy music video for her 2018 song Celoso has been viewed a whopping 400 million times on YouTube.

She began her career on the six-second video platform Vine which she used to showcase her music and early comedy routines.

Lele became the first 'Viner' to reach one billion loops and before the platform shut down in 2016, she had become the most-looped and most-followed Viner of all time.

The influencer has acted in film and television and in 2016 she co-authored a novel called Surviving High School.

She married Puerto Rican rapper Guaynaa in March last year.

She said: 'I was attacked by a pit bull, well my dog was about to get attacked by a pit bull, it came running to my dog'

The star was chatting with Bilt Rewards CEO Ankur Jain

'It grabbed my dog, the moment it grabbed it opened its mouth I put my hand in, it's so strong. 'The dog was going for my dog, I'm a mom! I got stitches!'