Ashley Judd continues to recover after her accident with a shattered leg in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The actress’s mother, Naomi Judd, gave an update on her daughter’s condition in Thursday’s episode of The Kelly Clarkson Show, telling the host that Ashley, 52, was scheduled to take the stitches the next day, “after her catastrophic accident”.
“It was very serious – she could have died”, the country singer and Ruby the actress shared with presenter Kelly Clarkson. “She is surviving. She is very brave. She cannot get out of bed [yet]. “
Naomi, 75, also talked about living close to Ashley and her eldest daughter Wynonna Judd, in what she calls “Valley of Peace”.
“But it’s not always peaceful,” she said to Clarkson, 38, laughing.
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Naomi called See what happens live last week, saying that while Ashley was “healing”, it was “very difficult to see” in her condition.
“She lives next door, so I’m going to go up and get her stitches when we’re done,” said the mother of two. “I was a nurse before I became a singer.”
And looking after Ashley has been a family affair, as Wynonna, 56, recently told Page Six that she had to research “how to wash the hair of someone lying in bed” after her sister sent her a message with the request .
The country singer joked: “This is where the work of an older sister resides”.
Naomi and Ashley Judd
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Last month, Ashley underwent a 55-hour rescue to bring her from the DRC to South Africa after she suffered nerve damage, internal bleeding and a broken leg at four points when she tripped over a fallen tree on a visit. to the DRC to see endangered bonobo monkeys. Since then, she has been recovering in the United States
THE Double penalty The actress gave an update on her physical and mental health in a candid Instagram post earlier this month, beginning: “I don’t understand why what happened happened. I understand that I was loved and helped enormously. I understand that the nights are wild. agony.”
After thanking her medical teams, Ashley said, “Now, I am in the midst of a torrent of friends and family, too numerous to mention, who took me in their prodigious arms after this dizzying fall. They do for me what I cannot do. do it for myself – prepare meals, wash my hair and they also offer deep spiritual direction and the comfort of trying to start creating an arc of meaning and purpose. They also offer and meet my need for silence. I am lost and they are my shepherd’s staff. “
She ended her post by thanking those who had physiotherapy before her, addressing the difficulty of “combining drowning in trauma and addressing the physical body” and concluding, “Thank you, everyone here and everywhere, for the good will, and we may always attentive to the needs of others. “