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Ashley Judd's Long Road Back From Shattering Her Leg in DRC
Ashley Judd updated fans on her recovery from shattering her leg, sharing a video of herself balancing on a foot she was told might be permanently paralyzed
She told the New York Times from an ICU bed shortly after the accident that getting out of the remote area involved an hour and a half of being carried in a hammock and a six-hour ride on a motorcycle. “I’m here because I am my beloved mother’s daughter and on the day she died, which will be the two-year anniversary in one week, the disease of mental illness was lying to her, and with great terror convinced […] I remain grateful to my siblings there who saved my life and encouraged my spirit as I was carried out of the depths of the second lung of the planet for 67 hours to get medical attention,” she wrote.
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