When announcing her death on April 30, she and Wynonna Judd said they had lost her “to the disease of mental illness.” Experts say that disseminating details and graphic images of a suicide are known to increase the risk of other vulnerable, at-risk people attempting suicide.īut on related issues, Ashley Judd said the family felt it was important to talk about her mother’s mental illness and to help people understand why deeply depressed people have trouble seeing outside of their pain. The Judd family’s discomfort with sharing this information echoes concerns among suicide prevention experts about disclosing too many details about a person’s suicide methods. Judd explained to Sawyer that the family was “uncomfortable” about saying too much about how Naomi Judd died, but shared the information about the firearm because they expected it to eventually became public in other ways. She said she had been staying with her mother and discovered her mother’s body, a moment that she said has added to her grief and trauma. The daughter was speaking from Tennessee, where she, her mother and sister have homes. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Getty Images For YouthAIDS)Īshley Judd also disclosed that her mother died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. It physically hurt.” Actress Ashley Judd and singers Naomi and Wynonna Judd arrive at the “YouthAIDS Annual Benefit Gala 2003” at Capitale on Octoin New York City. The lie that Naomi Judd’s unrelenting mental illness told her were “you’re not enough, you’re not loved, you’re not worthy,” Ashley Judd said, adding, “Her brain hurt. “Because the barrier between the regard in which they held her couldn’t penetrate into her heart and the lie the disease told her was so convincing.” She said that people in the Congo lack a simple pill to kill the pain – stressing that she had medical care that everyone does not have.“That is the level of catastrophe of what was going on inside of her,” Ashley Judd said. She went into shock and was carried out of the rain forest. She bit a stick while “howling like a wild animal” to deal with the pain, describing her leg as “badly misshapen.” She said she was lying in great pain for hour after hour. The entire experience was “incredibly harrowing,” she said. She described an arduous journey carrying her back to camp, and then she was carried out in a hoisted hammock. She said that she spent “five hours of lying on the forest floor” and it took time to be evacuated. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center on Apin New York City.Īccording to the video, Judd explained that she broke her leg when she tripped over a tree. GettyActress Ashley Judd speaks onstage during the ‘Feminism: A Battlefield Report’ session at the 10th Anniversary Women In The World Summit – Day 2 at David H. “As I was breaking my leg, I knew it was being broken.” There was a fallen tree “on the path which I didn’t see,” she said. “We’re there every year, twice a year… I was doing what I always do, up at 4:30 in the morning with two of our trackers… walking in the dark.” She said her head lamp wasn’t working properly. She said the apes “offer us hope…We have a lot to learn from them.” She said her partner has a camp there. She said they are “egalitarian, they are matriarchal” and they lack sexual coercion.
Judd said she was in the rain forest because of bonobos, which she said are a highly endangered great ape. Judd said she had a “really bad accident.”
She continued, “And 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 acknowledged that she was privileged in the video. She told Kristof that she was “in an ICU trauma unit in beautiful South Africa, which has taken me in from the Congo: a country I deeply love which is not, unfortunately, equipped to deal with massive catastrophic injuries like I have had.” I’m in a lot of compassion” and gratitude, said Judd in the video. Get Coached Into the Best Shape of Your LifeĪ post shared by Nicholas Kristof the Instagram Live video, Judd revealed that she had an accident in the Congo.
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