Ashley Judd Recuperating From “Catastrophic” Leg Injury After Fall In Congo Rainforest
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deadline.comSinger, actress and animal rights advocate Ashley Judd is recuperating at a South African trauma unit after almost losing a leg in a “catastrophic” fall in a Congo rainforest.In an Instagram Live chat with New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof – watch it below – Judd, speaking from her ICU bed, says she was walking in a Congo rainforest when she tripped over a fallen tree, shattering her leg.
Judd, a frequent visitor to Congo, was doing work to track the Bonobos, an endangered great apes species.Describing “an incredibly harrowing 55 hours” during which she was transported, in part by being hand-carried out, in part on a six-hour motorbike trip, from the remote rainforest location to a medical center in South Africa, Judd holds up the
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