[custom_adv] Ashley Judd is feeling thankful after shattering her leg in the African jungle.The actress, 52, shared a series of pics snapped as she was being rescued via Instagram on Tuesday, February 16, detailing the frightening experience for her followers. [custom_adv] “Friends. Without my Congolese brothers and sisters, my internal bleeding would have likely killed me and I would have lost my leg. I wake up weeping in gratitude, deeply moved by each person who contributed something life giving and spirit saving during my grueling 55 hour odyssey,” Judd began. “Here are some of their stories. [custom_adv] Dieumerci stretched out his leg and put it under my grossly misshapen left leg to try and keep it still. It was broken in four places and had nerve damage.”The All That is Bitter and Sweet author continued: “Dieumerci (‘Thanks be to God’) remained seated, without fidgeting for 5 hours on the rain forest floor. He was with my in my primal pain. [custom_adv] He was my witness. Papa Jean: it took 5 hours, but eventually he found me, wretched and wild on the ground, and calmly assessed my broken leg. He told me what he had to do. I bit a stick. [custom_adv] I held onto Maud. And Papa Jean, with certainty began to manipulate and adjust my broken bones back into something like a position I could be transported in, while I screamed and writhed. How he did that so methodically while I was like an animal is beyond me.”
