Ashley Judd

In a podcast interview, the actor recalled her recovery process after the 1999 attack and the 'restorative-justice conversation' with her attacker.

At the Women in the World Summit in 2019, Judd described herself as “a three-time rape survivor”, and said that one of the rapes had resulted in conception. And I said, ‘I’m very interested in hearing the story you’ve carried all these years.’ And we had a restorative-justice conversation about that. Judd was speaking on the Healing With David Kessler podcast about the recovery process after the sexual assault, saying: “It was crazy-making because I knew better.

Kessler added that many people may not realize that the idea of grief can also be applied to something like the aftermath of a rape or sexual assault. And the ...

In 2019, Judd also told the audience at the Women in the World summit that she is “a three-time rape survivor,” and one of those incidents led to a pregnancy. Because I had the opportunity to do my trauma work, to do my grief work, to do my healing work, to have all these shifts in my own consciousness and to bond in these female coalition spaces with other survivors.” Judd went on to say that she “wanted to share that story because there are many ways of healing from grief, and it's important to remind listeners that I didn't need anything from him and it was just gravy that he made his amends and expressed his deep remorse, because healing from grief is an inside job.” Kessler added that many people may not realize that the idea of grief can also be applied to something like the aftermath of a rape or sexual assault.

Judd, 54, told David Kessler about the conversation on Tuesday's episode of his podcast "Healing." The actress claimed she was raped in 1999 and that her ...

"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. "And I said, 'I'm very interested in hearing the story you've carried all these years.' And we had a restorative-justice conversation about that." "So having safe access to abortion was personally important to me and, as I said earlier, democracy starts with our skin.

Actor Ashley Judd has revealed she tracked down a man who raped her and ended up “in rocking chairs sitting by a creek together”.

“The rapist, who is a Kentuckian, as am I, and I reside in Tennessee, has paternity rights in Kentucky and Tennessee,” Judd explained during the 2019 Women in the World panel discussion. “Nine years into my recovery, I can go farther and say my ‘story’ is not ‘my story,’” she wrote in a Mic.com essay at the time. The Los Angeles native explained that while she “didn’t need anything from” her rapist, she was “very interested in hearing” his story, reported the New York Post.