Ashley Judd was taken to hospital after a “catastrophic” accident in the Congo.
The Kiss the girls an actor revealed in an Instagram Live that she is resting in a “trauma unit in beautiful South Africa” after sustaining “massive catastrophic injuries” during a rainforest outing.
Judd said she was traveling in the Congo when she fell over a tree. She remembers lying on the forest floor for five hours and ‘crying like an animal’ while being carried back to her camp by her ‘Congolese brothers’.
She added that during the journey from the rainforest and to the capital of Kinshasa, she faded into and out of her consciousness and kept herself awake by reading the Bible.
She was eventually taken to a hospital in South Africa after an ‘incredibly sad’ experience.
In Instagram Live, Judd said the accident was a reminder of her privilege as a person with funds traveling in Congo, explaining: ‘The difference between a Congolese and me is a disaster insurance that took me 55 hours allowed my accident. to come to an operating table in South Africa. ”
Judd, who is the daughter of country singer Naomi Judd, has appeared in movies, among other things. Heat, Double danger and Error.
In 2020, an appeals court allowed Judd to continue her claims for Weinstein against sexual harassment.