Actress Ashley Judd recently reflected on encountering a horrific accident in the forests of Congo last year, after which she was left with a hemorrhaging leg that nearly killed her.
The 53-year-old actress encountered the accident while hiking in a forest in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in February 2021, after which a 55-hour rescue operation ensued at the end of which she was medevaced to South Africa.
Talking on the Sex, Body & Soul podcast with Kate Roberts, Judd shared, “I don't know how the mind and the body and the soul come together to manage to endure the unendurable. I bit a stick, I screamed, I howled, I convulsed. I never did pass out — I wished that I could.”
She laid on the forest floor for five hours before getting help from her ‘Congolese brothers’ who carried her up hills in a hammock.
“I was in hospital in South Africa about nine days. And then I was medevaced to Tennessee. But when I got to South Africa my leg didn't have a pulse and I was hemorrhaging, and if I had been medevaced to Europe I would've bled to death,” said Judd.
Rihanna firmly shut down rude comments about her, sending fans into frenzy
Meghan’s Instagram comeback snags 650K followers in record time
Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom celebrate New Year’s Eve travelling together
Kanye West recently shares his take on The Last of Us Part 2, sparking massive debate among the audience
Meghan and Harry’s Netflix deal faces curtain call
Jon M. Chu knew 'people will see things they have never seen in Ariana Grande before'
