Ashley Judd is expressing her thanks to those who took care of her after suffering a massive injury in Congo.
On Instagram, the 52-year-old actress shared pictures from her terrifying experience. During the incident, she shattered her leg while out in the jungle and undertook a harrowing 55-hour journey to the intensive care unit.
Judd also thanked the locals who looked after her while she was in excruciating pain.
“Friends. Without my Congolese brothers and sisters, my internal bleeding would have likely killed me, and I would have lost my leg,” she wrote in the caption, alongside photos and videos of the rescue. “I wake up weeping in gratitude, deeply moved by each person who contributed something life giving and spirit salving during my grueling 55 hour odyssey.”
The actress described how one local named Dieumerci “stretched out his leg and put it under my grossly misshapen left leg to try to keep it still.”
Another man, Papa Jean, found both Judd and the other resident following a five-hour search. The actress said she “wretched and wild on the ground” while Papa Jean looked at her broken leg.
In her Instagram post, Judd went on to detail the entire scary experience.
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Last week, Judd confirmed she was recuperating after shattering her leg in a “harrowing ordeal” in the Congo rainforest. The “Double Jeopardy” actress opened up about the traumatic incident during an Instagram Live with New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof.
Judd took part in the conversation from a hospital bed “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.”
Judd said the injury occurred after she tripped over a fallen tree because a faulty head lamp made it difficult to see. She wound up breaking her leg and "started with five hours of lying on the forest floor."
The “Divergent” star had been in the Congo at a research camp studying an endangered species of apes called bonobos.
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