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- Ashley Judd is recovering in an ICU trauma unit in South Africa after breaking her leg in Congo.
- The actor was in the country to study an endangered species of ape.
- “I’m very in love. I have a lot of compassion and a lot of gratitude,” Ashley said.
Ashley Judd is recovering in a South African hospital after seriously injuring her leg while hiking in the Congo rainforest.
The 52-year-old man worked in the country in a research field studying an endangered species of apes called bonobos.
Speaking on an Instagram Live from his hospital bed with Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times, he said that he is: “in an ICU trauma unit in beautiful South Africa, which has taken me in from the Congo – a country that I deeply love that It’s unfortunately I’m not equipped to deal with massive catastrophic injuries like I’ve had.
“And the difference between a Congolese person and myself is the disaster insurance that allowed me, 55 hours after my accident, to reach an operating table in South Africa,” Ashley added.
the Double jeopardy The actor then went on to describe the accident, explaining that she tripped over a fallen tree, “what followed was an incredibly harrowing 55 hours.”
She lay on the forest floor for five hours with a tracker holding her “badly deformed leg,” while she “bit into her cane, howling like a wild animal.”
After being evacuated and having her leg readjusted, she spent “an hour and a half in a hammock, being carried out of the jungle by my Congolese brothers, who did it barefoot, climbing hills, across the river.”
From there, she traveled by motorcycle for six hours and spent the night in a cabin in Jolu before being flown to Kinshasa, where she stayed for 24 hours, and then to South Africa, where she was treated.
“I am so in love. I have so much compassion and so much gratitude. I appreciate all of your thoughts, prayers, and support,” Ashley said.
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