Ashley Judd says she waited 55 hours to receive treatment at the ICU after a “terrifying” accident in the Congo

Ashley Judd waited 55 hours to be treated at the ICU after having “broken a leg in four places” and suffered nerve damage during an expedition to the Congo rainforest, she said during an interview with The New York TimesNicholas Kristof. According to the actress, who is now hospitalized for a traumatic ICU, she broke her leg after tripping over a fallen tree. He started “with five hours lying on the forest floor,” where he said he was waiting with a partner. “With my leg under my very deformed leg, biting my stick,” Judd said, adding that he had such a desolate pain that he “howled.” After five hours, he said, someone restored her bones, but then she had to be transported for more than an hour on foot and transported by motorcycle and plane before being registered in a South African ICU for more than two days. after the accident. . Judd described the incident as “distressing.”