Ashley Judd Fractured Her Leg Twice in Two Years

Ashley Judd shared that she has recovered from a fractured leg, which is her second leg fracture in the past two years.

When Ashley was on a trip to Africa in February 2021, she tripped over a fallen tree during an excursion in the country and shattered her leg.

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The more recent fracture was a “freak accident.” She fractured her femoral condyle near the knee last summer just months after her mom Naomi Judd died by suicide. This second fracture, “healed in two months, lickety-split,” she said, according to THR.

Ashley spoke on Zoom with UCLA professor Dr. Jonathan Flint as part of an Open Mind lecture and conversation. She said that grief-associated clumsiness led to her breaking her leg.

“It was what it was. Clumsiness is associated with grief, and there were other people in our family, after mom died, who fell down stairs and had accidents, and that’s just what mine happened to look like. It really allowed me to grieve. It really allowed me to stop what I was working on at that moment and to grieve,” Ashley said.

The 54-year-old Double Jeopardy actress also shared about her perspective on other people’s opinions of her. “I’ve put on some weight and I’m sure people are talking about it but I don’t pay any attention to it because I know it’s a temporary condition and the weight will come off when it’s supposed to. It’s none of my business what people think of me,” she said.

“It is absolutely none of my business. I have a healthy boundary about it but I also know that misogyny is a real thing in our culture. You try being a once ultra-fit woman who’s 54 and put on some weight. That is going to spark some very sexist conversations by both men and women and others in our culture,” Ashley concluded.

Last month, her sister Wynonna Judd addressed the rumors that she has been feuding with Ashley over their mom Naomi Judd‘s estate.