Actor Ashley Judd on Tuesday posted photos of her “grueling 55-hour odyssey” in the Congolese rainforest in South Africa to save the leg she shattered one fall – and thanked the rescuers who made it happen. it happens. (See pictures below.)
“Without my Congolese brothers and sisters, my internal bleeding would probably have killed me and I would have lost my leg,” the Double Jeopardy star wrote on Instagram. “I wake up crying in gratitude, deeply moved by each person who contributed something that gives life and the spirit saved during my painful 55-hour odyssey.”
Judd’s image gallery highlighted the heroes of a bonobo research expedition that turned into a serious emergency when he stumbled upon a tree in the dark. He consoled her while sitting helplessly for hours on the forest floor. They reset her broken tibia twice to make the journey difficult, carrying her on foot on rough terrain in a hammock and then on a motorcycle, leaning her back, keeping her limbs broken.
Judd, whose films include “Divergent,” “Tooth Fairy,” and “Someone Like You,” told Nicholas Kristof of The New York Times in the video above that she was eventually transported to the capital, Kinshasa, where was put on it. a plane to South Africa. She was operated on at a hospital there.
A few years ago, Judd emerged as a prominent figure in the MeToo movement, accusing film mogul Harvey Weinstein of sabotaging his career after rejecting his unwanted advances.
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