NEW YORK — Ashley Judd has recounted a painful ordeal she considers nearly cost her leg after tripping at an Congolese rainforest and needing to be evacuated by motorbike.
In one of 2 Instagram Live videos hosted Friday by New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, the actor explained she had been stuck on the floor for five hours using a”badly misshapen leg,” biting on a pole due to pain, and”crying like a wild creature.”
Judd was hurt when she and investigators were up early at a rainforest searching for bonobos when she tripped over a log along with the autumn shattered her tibia. She had been completed the volcano in a hammock and back into camp.
Subsequently she had been evacuated by motorbike, using a driver steering and the other guy”holding the upper portion of my shattered tibia together”
She explained it as a”devastating injury” and then she”almost lost my leg” She ran the meeting by a hospital bed in South Africa and showed if she was not a renowned celebrity, she believes she may have dropped her leg and her own life throughout the 55-hour ordeal.
