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Ashley Juddis detailing how her mother’s death has impacted her health.
On Wednesday, the 54-year-old actress spoke to UCLA professor Dr. Jonathan Flint as part of an Open Mind lecture series and revealed that she fractured her leg due to grief-associated clumsiness as a result of her motherNaomi Judd’ssuicide.
TheDouble Jeopardystar suffered a fracture of the femoral condyle over the summer. She shared that although her injury wasn’t severe and she “healed in two months, lickety-split,” the incident gave her time to pause and grieve.
“It was what it was,” she said. “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.”
Along with her latest leg injury, Judd previously spent several months recovering from a “catastrophic accident” in February 2021 when sheshattered her legin the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
“We expected my foot — if ever — to begin to move in one year,” she wrote, calling her rapid process “unheard of.”
“In four months to the day, she went [and] blew us all away. Now, after crying while trying to spell the ABCs with a paralyzed foot….well, you see!” Judd added. “My leg will never be the same. She is a new leg. And I love her. We are buddies. We have a come a long way and we have a fabulous life ahead.”
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Earlier this year, Judd celebrated the anniversary of the “grueling” accident with a 25-mile hike in the Appalachian Mountains and even said she wants togo back to the Congo.
“Good greetings, 2022. It is nice to see you, on this, the 11 month anniversary of having broken my leg in four places and paralyzing my foot (not to mention nearly hemorrhaging to death),” she wrote on Instagram.
“I have just walked a nourishing twenty five miles in my #Appalachian home-place, the #GreatSmokyMountainsNationalPark, and then romped up and down our annual New Year snowy paths on an #Alp in #Switzerland,” she continued. “All this has me feeling ready. For what? Yes. #Congo. I return now. My heart is open and eager.”
source: people.com
