Ashley Judd, 42, stunning actress, and intelligent, sophisticated, and generous human being, the daughter of famous country singer Naomi Judd, revealed in a memoir released today that she was raped several times as a child and received dangerous psychological scars that she has spent half a life time overcoming.
Her new memoir, "All That Is Bitter & Sweet," recounts her contemplation of suicide as a child as a way out of an abuse filled life. She relates having suffered the first sexual assault having been lured into an empty storefront by a man who offered her a go on a pinball machine. She lived in Kentucky back then, where her parents had moved. Her parents refused to believe the story when she told them.
Since she was 4, at the time of her parents' split, she says she became depressed and dealt severely with that, which combined with her later sexual abuse drove her to commit herself to hospitals to overcome her suicidal thoughts. She went to 13 different schools by age 18 and said she grew up feeling unwanted and unloved. Ashley was left alone for long periods of time in this part of her life.
Judd started at the Shades of Hope treatment Center in Buffalo Gap, Texas in 2006 and stayed for 47 days to cope with issues of depression and codependency.
She is a Harvard graduate and a YouthAIDS Global ambassador. Judd devotes much of her time to helping less fortunate women in various parts of the world.
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