Ashley Judd is recovering from a very narrow accident.
In an Instagram Live with Nicholas Kristof of The New York Times on February 12, the actress ‘Double Jeopardy’ reveals that she seriously injured her leg during an outing to the Congo rainforest when she fell over a tree in the dark .
She spoke from her hospital bed about how she was now in an ICU trauma unit in beautiful South Africa, which took me out of the Congo, a country I love very much, and unfortunately is not equipped for massive deal with catastrophic injuries like I did. ” She explained that the experience further highlights the privilege she had as a person of means to visit the Congo.
As she explained to Kristof: “The difference between a Congolese and me is a disaster insurance that was allowed at an operating table in South Africa 55 hours after my accident.”
She outlined the ‘incredibly disturbing’ experience, which ‘started with five hours of lying on the forest floor’ until she could be evacuated. From there, she was carried for more than an hour in a hammock by her ‘Congolese brothers’, who were eventually able to bring her back to camp. She ‘cried like a wild animal’ and bit a stick to try to relieve the pain.
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Judd then rode a motorcycle for six hours to get to the nearest place to stay – which she said only happened because she could pay for such transport. She was taken to the capital city of Kinshasa before finally being moved to the hospital.
Despite the turbulent journey, Judd explained that she was very happy to be in the position she was in. The Golden Globe nominee believes that many Congolese do not have the ability to afford a simple pill to kill the pain if you have crushed a leg in four places and have nerve damage. ‘
As Judd explained on her Instagram earlier on February 12, she was working at a research camp in the Congo to study an endangered species of monkey called bonobos. “Bonobos matters,” Judd wrote on Instagram. “And so are the people in whose ancestral forest they exist, and the other 25,600,000 Congolese who need humanitarian aid.”
Check out the full Instagram Live above.