Ashley Judd is recovering after breaking her leg in the Congo region of Africa.
The 52-year-old actress joined The New York Times on Thursday for an Instagram Live and revealed that she is currently in the ICU unit in a South African hospital.
I’m in an ICU trauma unit in beautiful South Africa that took me away from the Congo: a country I love very much, and who unfortunately is not equipped to deal with major catastrophic injuries like I had not ‘, she revealed.
Judd described: “And the difference between me and a Congolese is disaster insurance that was allowed at an operating table in South Africa 55 hours after my accident.”
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She added how many Congolese people ‘do not’ have access to ‘a simple pill to kill the pain if you have crushed a leg in four places and have nerve damage.’
Ashley Judd said she broke her leg after falling in the rainforest in the Congo.
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Judd explained that the accident happened when she was on an outing one night and stumbled over a tree that had fallen into the rainforest.
The “Kiss the Girls” star said in total that it was a “disturbing” ordeal of 55 hours and that it “started with five hours of lying on the forest floor” until she could be evacuated. Luckily she was with a colleague.
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She remembered how she ‘shocked’ and ‘went out’ due to the pain, but someone showed up to put her leg down before her journey to South Africa began.
Judd said she was “carried in a hammock for an hour and a half … by my Congolese brothers, who did it barefoot, up and over hills, by the river.”
She was then taken by motorcycle to her next place, which was six hours away, spent a night in Jolu one night and then flew to Kinshasa and stayed there for 24 hours before being flown back to South Africa.
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“I have a lot of love. I have a lot of compassion and I have a lot of gratitude,” she expressed. “I thank everyone for their thoughts and their prayers and their support.”