After having endured a “chaotic” and “dysfunctional” childhood, Ashley Judd underwent a 47-day program at a Texas treatment center last February in order to deal with the issues of her past, including depression, isolation and co-dependent relationships, she says.

“I needed help. I was in so much pain,” Judd, who says she slept to combat depression and exhibited a compulsion to clean, tells Glamour magazine.

In recounting her childhood, Judd, 38, describes herself as a “hyper-vigilant child” who attempted to behave perfectly in order to compensate for her lack of security. She went to 13 schools in 12 years and shifted from living with her mother, her father and her grandparents.

“Supposedly, my sister was the ‘messed-up’ one, and I was the ‘perfect’ one,” says Judd, whose mother is Grammy-winning country singer-songwriter Naomi Judd and sister is Wynonna, another Grammy winner. Her father is her mother’s high-school sweetheart, Michael Ciminella. (Ashley’s parents divorced when she was four.)

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