Ashley Judd hospitalized after suffering “massive and catastrophic” leg injury – NBC4 Washington

Ashley Judd is about to repair after a very frightening accident.

In an Instagram Live with Nicholas Kristof of The New York Times on February 12, actress “Double Jeopardy” revealed that her leg was seriously injured during a trip to the Congo rainforest when she stumbled upon a fallen tree in the dark ones.

He spoke from his hospital bed about how I was now in an “ICU trauma unit in beautiful South Africa, which has taken me from the Congo, a country I love deeply and which, unfortunately, it is not equipped to deal with massive catastrophic injuries like I have had. ” He explained that the experience further illuminated the privilege he had as a media person to visit the Congo.

As he explained to Kristof, “the difference between a Congolese person and me is a disaster insurance that allowed me 55 hours after my accident to reach an operating table in South Africa.”

She detailed the “incredibly distressing” experience, which “began with five hours lying on the forest floor” until she could be evacuated. From there, she spent more than an hour in a hammock carried by her “Congolese brothers,” who were finally able to take her back to camp. He passed the ordeal “howling like a wild animal” and biting into a stick to try to relieve the pain a little.

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Judd traveled for six hours on a motorcycle to get to the nearest place to stay, which, he explained, only happened because he could afford that transportation. She was taken to the capital Kinshasa before being finally taken to hospital.

Despite the tumultuous journey, Judd explained that he was very lucky to be in the position where he was. The Golden Globe candidate shared that many Congolese people do not have the ability to afford “a simple pill to kill pain when you have a broken leg in four places and has nerve damage.”