Ashley Judd is sharing new details about her near-death experience while in the Congolese rainforest. The animal rights activist was walking in a Congo rainforest, doing work to track the endangered Bonobos (a great ape species) when she tripped over a fallen tree and shattered her leg in Feb.
2021. READ MORE: Ashley Judd Shares Photos After ‘Catastrophic’ Accident In A Congo Rainforest An “incredibly harrowing 55 hours” followed as she was transported from Congo to a hospital in South Africa, which included being carried by hand and a six-hour motorbike ride.
Judd joined Kate Roberts and her podcast “Sex, Body & Soul” where she shared she almost didn’t make the journey. “I don’t know how the mind and the body and the soul come together to manage to endure the unendurable,” she said. “I bit a stick, I screamed, I howled, I convulsed.
I never did pass out — I wished that I could.” “I was in hospital in South Africa about nine days. And then I was medevaced to Tennessee.
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