EXCLUSIVE DETAILS: Ashley Judd's Painful Past: Rape & Drug Ordeal Revealed In Shocking Memoir
Posted on Apr 05, 2011 @ 03:05PM
In a shocking memoir, actress Ashley Judd has detailed her childhood years filled with lies, pain and sexual abuse, and RadarOnline.com has an exclusive sneak peek into the book that hits shelves on Tuesday, April 5.
"My mother, while she was transforming herself into the country legend Naomi Judd, created an origin myth for the Judds that did not match my reality," Ashley writes in the new memoir titled All That Is Bitter & Sweet.
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"She and my sister [Wynonna] have been quoted as saying that our family put the 'fun' in dysfunction. I wondered: 'Who, exactly, was having all the fun? What was I missing?'"
Ashley reveals that although her mother led her father, Michael Ciminella, on to believe he was the father of Wynonna, it was actually another man, Charlie Jordan, who was the father and upon hearing of the pregnancy he wanted nothing to do with it.
The 42-year-old Kentucky native said that "there was always marijuana inside the house" and that her dad "was prone to taking hallucinogenics with friends on Saturday nights.
When she was a toddler, her parent's marriage dissolved, and Naomi had a new man move in with them who Ashley describes as an "abusive full-blown heroin addict with a criminal record."
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"I was taught to believe that our lifestyle was normal and never to question it or complain, even when I was left alone for hours, sometimes days at a time, or when I was passed without warning to yet another relative," Ashley wrote.
"I loved my mother, but at the same time I dreaded the mayhem and uncertainty that followed her everywhere...I often felt like an outsider observing my mom's life as she followed her own dreams."
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Sadly, Ashley recounts an experience with sexual abuse which later lead her into a deep depression.
"An old man everyone knew beckoned me into a dark, empty corner of the business and offered me a quarter for the pinball machine at the pizza place if I'd sit on his lap," Ashley said.
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"He opened his arms, I climbed up, and I was shocked when he suddenly cinched his arms around me, squeezing me and smothering my mouth with his, jabbing his tongue deep into my mouth."
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Ashley is entitled to tell her side of the story , her mom and her sister had their chance now its Ashley's turn
Never judge anyone unless you walk a mile in their shoes .... compassion and understanding wouldn't go amiss here.
Posted Mon, 04/18/2011 - 12:17pm
I feel very badly for Ashley, but honestly it doesn't surprise me. Naomi acts like she's some perfect angel and i heard her many times tell someone off likes she's the Pope. people who act like her always have some major skeletons.
Posted Fri, 04/08/2011 - 8:02am
Go Ashley! If this is what it takes to make you feel better, do it! You are the best actress and we miss you
being on the big screen.
I too, wish the reality shows would all tank! TMI no matter what!
Posted Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:47am
These Judds are all drama queens. They all are dysfunctonal and proud of it . They sure have made alot of money with their pycho babble. Next will be they slept with each others husbands.. Public are moron
Posted Wed, 04/06/2011 - 7:07am
Bad day? Just come on down to this site & read comments. The vile hate, sheer jealousy & shaming of a survivor, makes me so glad I am not you all, and never will be. I hope what happened to her, happens to you all :P
Posted Wed, 04/06/2011 - 4:24am
Sorry, Ashley, McKensie, Oprah et al. I don't want to read about your fantasies of being assaulted.
Posted Wed, 04/06/2011 - 12:27am
Sorry, Ashley, McKensie, Oprah et al. I'm tired of you screwed-up individuals always blaming sexual assault for your miserable lives. Will I read her book? No, just like I didn't read McKensie's.
Posted Wed, 04/06/2011 - 12:26am
Sorry, Ashley, McKensie, Oprah et al. I'm tired of you screwed-up individuals always blaming sexual assault for your miserable lives. Will I read her book? No, just like I didn't read McKensie's.
Posted Wed, 04/06/2011 - 12:26am
I never think of the Judd's without thinking of their stories... any entertainment is overshadowed by their hard luck stories
Posted Tue, 04/05/2011 - 11:54pm
You can't blame her for scoring a celebrity book deal. She fulfills her contractual obligation to promote the book, and the money flows into her bank account. It's the ultimate form of narcissism.
Posted Tue, 04/05/2011 - 11:33pm