Ashley Judd

The Double Jeopardy actress revealed to grief expert David Kessler on his Healing with David Kessler podcast that she met up with the man who raped her in ...

Ashley Judd revealed that she and her alleged rapist talked about what happened years later, on a recent podcast episode.

“I’m very thankful I was able to access safe and legal abortion,” she said at the Women in the World summit in New York that year. “So having safe access to abortion was personally important to me and, as I said earlier, democracy starts with our skin. Judd, 54, talked to David Kessler on the Tuesday episode of his podcast “Healing.” The actress claimed she was raped in 1999 and that her alleged rapist “surfaced very easily” when she searched for him years later.

Actress Ashley Judd is sharing more of her feelings regarding her mom Naomi Judd's unfortunate passing after battle with mental illness...

She said, “My most ardent wish for my mother is that when she transitioned, she was hopefully able to let go of any guilt or shame that she carried for any shortcomings she may have had in her parenting of my sister and me. She also said, “She managed to keep a lot going for herself even while I saw what was going on behind the scenes at home. “The Kiss the Girls” actress explained that she hoped her mother’s death had finally brought her a sense of peace. The 54-year-old actress said that she has come to understand that her mother’s pain was simply a product of her fatal disease. The Judd family revealed that Naomi had died from suicide, and during the interview, Ashley spoke about this aspect of her death. She and her sister, Wynonna, have also honored their mother’s memory and impact on their lives several times.