Ashley Judd was primed for depression as a child - because she was left on her own while her mother, singer Naomi, toured the world.

The Double Jeopardy star went public with her battle against depression after she entered a program at Shades of Hope Treatment Center in Buffalo Gap, Texas in February, 2006, and now she admits she has always battled the blues.

The actress says, “I had a very unsafe and unstable childhood about 10 months out of the year. I didn’t have my normal, natural little-girl needs met. I was left on my own a great deal.

“There was a time when I skipped a whole week of school because my mom was on the road, I didn’t have a ride and I’d gotten ashamed of calling friends.

“I had my first childhood depression at eight - severe, intense, hole-in-the-soul loneliness. No one noticed.”

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Actress Ashley Judd had emergency surgery last week. While filming a new movie “Helen” last week, the actress suffered from a appendicitis attack and had to be taken to the hospital for emergency surgery.

According to press reports, “The actress was filming the new movie when she had the attack and collapsed on the set. She was immediately admitted to the same hospital where she was filming and received emergency surgery.”“Luckily, the cast and crew were filming at a real hospital, so when paramedics arrived, they simply put Ashley on a stretcher and wheeled her into an operating room nearby,” a source said of the situation.

Production of the movie was halted for a few days, but everyone went back to work this morning.

Hope she is better!

Ashley Judd is working with Knoxville, Tenn. based retailers Goody on three new affordably priced clothing lines that use organic fibres and cruelty free production: A.J., Love, Ashley and Ashley Judd.

While celebrity designers are nothing new, Ashley and Goody will donate $500, 000 to needy schools in the SE states during their first year alone. Initially uninterested in the offer believing there was already “too much stuff in the world”, Judd soon changed her mind when Goody convinced her they would be happy to make ’stylish’ synonymous with ’socially conscious’.

SEE! Not all celebrities are turds!

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She’s so beautiful!

Racecar driver Dario Franchitti (also known as the husband of Ashley Judd) won the 91st edition of the Indy 500 on Sunday, in a rain-soaked race that had his celeb spouse cheering him on.

“The ups and downs throughout the day – what can I say?” Franchitti said, according to the Indianapolis Star. “I’m in shock right now – it’s been a rollercoaster month, and it was a rollercoaster day.”

For Franchitti, 34, Judd’s husband of nearly six years, the Indy win was one of his biggest ever, and it was the second win for his team in nearly three years. The race, cut short by the rain, was halted after 166 laps – or 415 of the race’s 500 miles. The Scottish-born Franchitti jumped into the lead after the two drivers ahead of him were forced to make a pit stop.

“It was going to come down to a dogfight, and there’s a lot of strong cars,” he said, the Associated Press reports. “Whatever happened, if it came down to that dogfight, it was going to be hard, so I was hoping for the rain.”

As Franchitti made a victory lap of the 2.5-mile oval in the heavy rain, Judd, soaking wet in a summer dress, climbed the pit wall and dashed toward the victory celebration.

“I can hardly believe it,” Franchitti added of his win. “Who would have thought it?”

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