Naomi Judd says that daughter Ashley is lucky to be alive after a terrible accident in Congo that almost resulted in the loss of the leg of the “Double Jeopardy” star.
In Thursday’s episode of “The Kelly Clarkson Show”, Judd said he lives close to daughters Wynonna and Ashley, adding that he will help Ashley during her recovery.
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“I have to take Ashley in the morning to get the stitches out after the catastrophic accident,” she said.
“It was really bad, right?” Clarkson asked.
“Very serious. She could have died. And she is surviving. She is very brave. I can’t get out of bed,” she said.
Naomi’s comments echo what she said last week “Watch Live Live with Andy Cohen”.
“She is very brave and is healing,” she said. “It is very difficult to see it like this. She lives next door, so I’m going to go up and get her stitches when we’re done, because I used to be a nurse before I became a singer. “
Ashley, 52, travels frequently to the Congo, visiting the African country to study the population of endangered bonobos.
“But accidents do happen,” she told New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof on Instagram Live last month. “There was a fallen tree on the way, which I didn’t see, and I was taking a very strong step and I just fell off that tree.”
Last month, she posted photos and videos while thanking people who came to her aid before being transferred to a hospital in South Africa.
“Without my Congolese brothers and sisters, my internal bleeding would probably have killed me and I would have lost my leg,” she wrote on Instagram. “I wake up crying out of gratitude, deeply moved by each person who contributed something to give life and save the spirit during my exhausting 55-hour odyssey.”
Earlier this month, Ashley posted another update, again thanking the people who helped her recover.
“I’m just at the beginning and the combination of drowning in trauma and addressing the physical body is a lot. However, you did it, and I will do it too, ”she wrote.