or the second tier Bonobo Glue
Posted on 02/12/2021 5:46:24 PM PST by EdnaMode
Actress, author and humanitarian 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 stick that she was biting to distract from the pain, “howling like a wild animal.” The actress, sister of Wynona Judd and daughter of Naomi Judd, recalls fading in and out of consciousness as she went into shock, repeatedly reciting “the Lord is my shepherd I shall not want” from Psalm 23.
Judd tells Kristof that despite the pain – “at the very edge of my edge” – and fear, she was fully aware of her “privilege” in having the opportunity to transfer to a fully equipped medical facility. Most Congolese people, she says, would have remained in the village, lost the leg and maybe a their life.
“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 says, adding that Congo villages lack not only electricity but “a simple pill to kill the pain when you’ve shattered a leg in four places and have nerve damage.”
Judd further explained on her own Instagram page, writing that she decided to speak out about the accident to spread the word about “what it means to be Congolese in extreme poverty with no access to health care, any medication for pain, any type of service, or choices.”
She continues, “Please join us and learn what it is like for much of the world – and how you can help. Bonobos matter. And so do the people in whose ancestral forest they range and the other 25,600,000 Congolese in need of humanitarian assistance.”
Yup. Remember Judd at the first DC rally spewing anti Trump hate on day one. Karma is a bitch.
or the second tier Bonobo Glue
So bongo, bongo, bongo, I don’t want to leave the Congo...
I knew they were both awesome from the first story.
Therein lies the difference: you dated a “lady”. 😬
Me too...when I re-read it!😀
I love hearing the complaints of aging actresses.
They seem to not understand that is was their looks and “couch talent” that got them the job in the first place.
Most of them aren’t Judy Dench or Maggie Smith.
it was pre-medieval, and a sh!t-hole
Yet she is still a whiny privileged line reader, jetting allover the world not very carbon friendly and in the time of COVID, why is she infecting jungles?
Imagine waking up next to that the next morning. Horrifying.
Ashley Judd Movies:
Double Jeopardy: (1999)
EXCELLENT MOVIE! She was great in it, as was Tommy Lee Jones.
Kiss The Girls: (1997)
EXCELLENT MOVIE! She was great in it, as was Morgan Freeman.
A Time To KILL: (1996)
EXCELLENT MOVIE! She was a just a supporting actress, she played Matthew McConaughey’s wife, starring Matthew McConaughey, Sandra Bullock, and Samuel L. Jackson.
Eye of the Beholder: (1999)
EXCELLENT MOVIE! She was great in it.
HEAT: EXCELLENT MOVIE! One of the BEST movies EVER! ALL STAR cast!
Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer, Jon Voight, Tom Sizemore, Ashley Judd, Dennis Haysbert, Natalie Portman,
Danny Trejo.
She did a TV series and when it debuted, all anyone could talk about was her FAILED plastic surgery on her face. The show tanked or she quit, anyway not so pretty any more.
Never cared much for her movies. She plays the same part all the time, the little cutie.
Who cares.
Ashley always came off
As a Terrible actress.
Can’t stand her.
She is so brave, even when howling like a “wild animal” from so much pain, she still had the strength to lecture us on white privilege
She traveled to the congo in the middle of Africa to help monkeys?
She missed everything everywhere else that is important just to help monkeys....
That is one lucky man. If it had been me,all you woulda seen is the back of my head.
plastic surgery takes away the natural attractiveness.
Never been a fan of her
I live nearish to her
She’s got a rep as not nice
One word-— “Heat” (the movie)
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