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Ashley Judd is currently recooperating after an accident which shattered her leg to pieces in Africa.

The 52-year-old actress had been traveling the continent and when in the Congo she had
tripped over a fallen tree during an excursion in the country, which she didn’t see because of a faulty head lamp.

Ashley opened up about the accident and the differences in privilege in an interview with New York Times‘ Nicholas Kristof over Instagram. She was speaking from her bed in an ICU Trauma Unit in South Africa.

She spoke about the Congo which she has a deep love for, but “is not, unfortunately, equipped to deal with massive catastrophic injuries like I have had, and the difference between a Congolese person and me is disaster insurance that allowed me 55 hours after my accident to get to an operating table in South Africa.

Ashley went into detail about her accident, revealing that she “started with five hours of lying on the forest floor” with one of her colleagues until she was able to be evacuated.

“With his leg under my badly misshapen leg, biting my stick,” she added. “Howling like a wild animal.”

Ashley then had her bones reset, before she described “going into shock” and “passing out” due to the pain.

Ashley also said that a group of Congolese brothers had to carry her in a hammock, through the rainforest to make it back to their camp. From there, she was taken by motorcycle for six hours to get to her next destination, with one person driving and one behind her holding her up.

“I’m in a lot of love. I’m in a lot of compassion and I’m in a lot of gratitude,” she says. “I thank everyone for their thoughts and their prayers and their support.”

Ashley was in the news last year, as she was named as one of the silence breakers in the lawsuit against Harvey Weinstein. See what happened here…

Ashley Judd is moving forward.

An appeals court ruled Wednesday (July 29) that the 52-year-old actress can pursue a sexual harassment claim against Harvey Weinstein, Variety reported.

The three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the lower court, which had previously thrown out the claim that he held power over her career when he invited her to his room at the Peninsula Hotel in the mid-1990s.

“(T)heir relationship consisted of an inherent power imbalance wherein Weinstein was uniquely situated to exercise coercion or leverage over Judd by virtue of his professional position and influence as a top producer in Hollywood. Therefore, the district court erred when it dismissed Judd’s sexual harassment claim,” wrote Judge Mary H. Murguia.

Ashley sued Harvey back in April of 2018, alleging he lured her into his hotel room, and tried to make her watch him shower and give him a massage. She also sued for defamation and retaliation when she rebuffed his advances, alleging she was blacklisted from the film industry.

“That is, by virtue of his professional position and influence as a top producer in Hollywood, Weinstein was uniquely situated to exercise coercive power or leverage over Judd, who was a young actor at the beginning of her career at the time of the alleged harassment. Moreover, given Weinstein’s highly influential and ‘unavoidable’ presence in the film industry, the relationship was one that would have been difficult to terminate ‘without tangible hardship’ to Judd, whose livelihood as an actor depended on being cast for roles,” the judge also wrote.

The case will now go back to the lower court and proceed on all claims.

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The Silence Breakers are speaking out.

The group of 24 Harvey Weinstein accusers, made up of women including Ashley Judd, Rosanna Arquette and Rose McGowan, spoke out in a statement issued on Wednesday (March 11) following the sentencing of the disgraced film producer, who will be serving 23 years in prison for criminal sexual acts.

“Harvey Weinstein‘s legacy will always be that he’s a convicted rapist. He is going to jail — but no amount of jail time will repair the lives he ruined, the careers he destroyed, or the damage he has caused,” the women said in their statement.

Click here to learn more about Harvey Weinstein‘s sentencing.

Earlier today, Harvey Weinstein was found guilty of committing a criminal sexual act and third-degree rape and celebrities are reacting to it on social media.

The charges and verdict come almost two years after the former producer was accused of sexual harassment, assault or rape.

Ashley Judd was one of the first to react to the verdict, writing, “For the women who testified in this case, and walked through traumatic hell, you did a public service to girls and women everywhere, thank you.#ConvictWeinstein #Guilty.”

Chef Padma Lakshmi added, “Harvey Weinstein is now a convicted rapist. If there’s a man who doesn’t deserve bail, it’s him.”

“I am heartened for his victims and for all those who said #metoo and #TimesUp that some justice has been done,” Elizabeth Banks shared on her timeline.

Annabella Sciorra also reacted to Harvey‘s guilty verdict, despite being acquitted on her rape charges.

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Actor and republican party supporter Dean Cain took to Twitter to react to a video of Ashley Judd, and the Internet quickly called him out.

It all started when Ashley made a PSA for Democratic candidate Elizabeth Warren.

Dean saw the video and quote tweeted it, writing, “I’m not exactly sure what to say here… I certainly have nothing positive to say, so I’ll be quiet.”

Fans took this to mean that Dean was commenting on her looks.

See the video in question embedded in this post.

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Ashley Judd speaks to the crowd during a panel at the 2019 Women in the World Summit on Thursday afternoon (April 11) at Lincoln Center in New York City.

The 50-year-old actress bravely opened up about having an abortion when she became pregnant after being raped.

“As everyone knows, and I’m very open about it, I’m a three-time rape survivor. And one of the times I was raped, there was conception,” she said during the panel (via People). “And I’m very thankful I was able to access safe and legal abortion. Because the rapist, who is a Kentuckian, as am I, and I reside in Tennessee, has paternity rights in Kentucky and Tennessee. I would’ve had to co-parent with my rapist.”

Ashley added, “So having safe access to abortion was personally important to me and, as I said earlier, democracy starts with our skin. We’re not supposed to regulate what we choose to do with our insides.”

Ashley Judd‘s sexual harassment claim against Harvey Weinstein was dismissed in court on Wednesday (January 9), according to TMZ.

The 50-year-old actress claimed that the 66-year-old movie producer kept her from a role in Lord of the Rings, and then blacklisted her from further movie roles, after she refused his sexual advances.

She sued Harvey under the legal theory “sexual harassment in professional relationship.” The judge ruled that Ashley and Harvey‘s relationship did not fall within that law and that a producer-actress relationship is not covered under that law.

While the law was changed in 2018 to cover that kind of relationship, the judge also ruled it could not be applied retroactively. However, she can still litigate her defamation claim.

Click here to read more about the original lawsuit.