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According to Ashley Judd, the biggest threat to wolves in Alaska is the elephant. In particular, the one running the state.

The actress and activist has teamed up with the animal rights group Defenders of Wildilfe for a campaign aimed at stopping Alaska’s aerial hunting practices, in which well-armed “sportsmen” shoot at bears and wolves from airplanes. Judd and pals have targeted one of practice’s chief proponents, Gov. Sarah Palin.

“Palin is again casting aside science and championing the slaughter of wildlife,” Judd said in a video for the cause. “It is time to stop Sarah Palin and stop this senseless savagery.”

The group is seeking donations to help end the predator control program by proposing new federal legislation.

The governor, who was targeted by the group last fall in the run-up to the presidential election, declared the Defenders of Wildlife an “extreme fringe group” that is “twisting the truth.” She further called out their “reprehensible and hypocritical” use of her state and herself to boost fundraising.

Palin maintains that the predatory animals are decimating the moose and caribou populations in the state, which Alaskans depend on for “food and cultural practices.”

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Ashley is at Sundance to promote her new film, Helen, which explores depression and leads her character to push away her husband and unable to care for her 13-year-old daughter.

Sounds like a cheery movie!

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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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