Judd also showed Kristof the stick she bit down in order to deal with the pain a second time. Ashley Judd is recovering after a "catastrophic" leg accident in a Congo rainforest. "The difference between a Congolese person and me is disaster insurance that allowed me 55 hours after my accident to get to an operating table in South Africa," she said. Judd acknowledged the "privilege" that allowed her to receive relatively swift medical care. The actress, 52, joined an Instagram Live with The New York Times' Nicholas Kristof on Friday from a South African ICU that took her in from Congo, where she shattered her leg in four places and suffered nerve damage after falling in the rainforest. After several hours, she was carried out of the Congolese rainforest in a hammock and back to camp, all while her "brothers," the Congolese men she worked with kept "encouraging her spirit.". "I said thank you so much papa Freddy and it was just this beautiful act, this deep act of human service, and I wouldn't have made it without the papa Freddies along the way. ", In an Instagram post she described the incident as a "catastrophic accident" and added that she "nearly lost my leg.". "Accidents happen -- and there was a fallen tree on the path which I didn't see and I had a very powerful stride going and I just fell over this tree," she told New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof on Friday. In it, Judd, 52, spoke with Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times. Actress Ashley Judd is in an ICU unit in South Africa after her leg was "shattered" in an accident in the Congo, which she recounted in an Instagram Live interview. You can watch the video below. ashley_judd / Instagram. Ashley Judd is on the mend after a very scary accident.. Ashley Judd (* 19. (Jemal Countess/Getty Images). But they offered me a depth of understanding because they know what this suffering is like.". "They're highly endangered. "Most of the people I know would not have had access. Presently, she serves as Global Goodwill Ambassador for UNFPA, is the Global Ambassador for Population Services International, and also for Polaris Project. Waiting for your permission to load the Instagram … "I think the idea is to pivot from what happened to Ashley to make it a broader conversation. In the video interview, Judd encouraged people to donate to the United Nations Population Fund or UNFPA which works to build mobile clinics in areas like Congo and provide "safe birth kits" to pregnant women who don't have access to obstetrics or medical care. Kindheit in bescheidenen Verhältnissen, heute Hollywoodstar! Up at 4:30 in the morning with two of our trackers who are just these world-class, brilliant, brilliant men walking in the dark and my headlamp had new batteries but it was a little faint," she remembered, telling Kristof that she has experience trekking in low light. I slept on the earth, without a tent. Ja, Ashley Judd ist bei Twitter und Instagram aktiv. Actress Ashley Judd speaks in Beverly Hills, Calif., in 2018. The actor and activist opened up about the accident and the ensuing 55-hour ordeal in two Instagram Live videos hosted by New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof on Friday. It took an "incredibly harrowing 55 hours" to get her from the jungle to an operating table in South Africa. Judd opened up about the accident and her work in the Democratic Republic of Congo during an Instagram Live with New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof. Judd told Kristof that when there's a crisis like this for ordinary Congolese people they sit and wait for someone who may have some knowledge to try and reset the leg. Kristof explained in the videos that Judd had reached out to him and shared photos from her 55-hour ordeal following an accidental fall in a Congolese rainforest. She concluded with a special thank you message to the many people who helped her during her excruciating time. Kristof shared a photo on his Instagram story, which Judd reposted. Du kannst ihr unter @ashleyjudd bei Twitter folgen. There are about 15,000 left and they exist only in the Congo," she said, calling them our "closest living relatives" because of their similarities to humans. She explained that she was speaking from an ICU trauma unit in a South African hospital. champ during Alex Trebek's tenure has died at age 24, Fox hosts Dobbs, Bartiromo strike back in voting fraud suit. I had to physically hold the top part of my shattered tibia together and we did that for six hours. Ashley Judd shot a social media video in support of presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren, only to find her looks the topic of conversation. Judd said that widespread poverty in Congo means there is often no electricity or running water, let alone access to "a simple pill to kill the pain when you've shattered a leg in four places and have nerve damage.". The "Double Jeopardy" star and activist spends much of each year in Africa and wanted to use the interview to raise awareness of issues of poverty and animal protection. "There was a fallen tree on the path, which I didn't see, and I had a very powerful stride going and I just fell over this tree. Judd said she was going into shock and passing out, that her teeth were chattering, and that she broke out in a cold sweat. "But accidents happen," she explains. I'm in a lot of compassion and I'm in a lot of gratitude." Ashley Judd is recovering after injuring her leg in a "massive, catastrophic" accident in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. When Kristof reconnected with Judd in a second Instagram Live video, she showed him the external fixator on her leg, and said doctors told here that because there was such "massive soft tissue damage" that "we can't actually touch the bones for another 10 days.". April 1968 als Ashley Tyler Ciminella in Granada Hills, Los Angeles) ist eine US-amerikanische Schauspielerin. Ashley Judd (52, "Twisted: Der erste Verdacht") ist nicht nur eine weltberühmte Schauspielerin, sie setzt sich auch leidenschaftlich für den Erhalt bedrohter Tierarten ein. Netflix series probes mysterious death of Vancouver woman in L.A. 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