The 42 Years Old Ashely Judd’s just-released “All That Is Bitter and Sweet” includes stories from the “Kiss the Girls” star’s painful childhood, including being left alone while mom Naomi and sister Wynonna sought fame and fortune as the singing team The Judds. The memoir includes eye-opening accounts of Judd’s being molested as a young girl and family members not believing her story. Judd writes about being raped while she was a 15-year-old model.


In her book, Judd recalls being in middle school when her mom started dating her current husband, Larry Strickland, and writes about the ways that relationship affected her.

“Mom and pop were wildly sexually inappropriate in front of my sister and me ... a horrific reality for me was that when pop was around I would have to listen to a lot of loud sex in a house with thin walls... I now know this situation is called covert sexual abuse,” she writes.

Judd’s 2006 stay at Shades of Hope recovery center in Texas, where she sought help to beat depression, was a catalyst for writing the book and coming to terms with her childhood. Despite stepping out of her famous family members’ shadow and becoming a star in her own right, Judd told Vieira she “was sick and tired of being sick and tired.

“I just didn’t know quite what was wrong with me,” she said. “I looked really good on the outside [but] I had a lot of anxiety and insomnia, and I realized eventually that I was really powerless over my childhood, and the coping strategies that I developed had made my adult life unmanageable.”

In therapy, Judd uncovered repressed memories of being sexually abused by a family member (she doesn’t name the person in the book), and also circumstances that led her to consider suicide before she was even in her teens.

In addition, Judd writes about being raped while she was a 15-year-old model working in Japan. “There was a creepy Frenchman who hung out at the bar ... He offered me a ride home ... I was so young and confused that I had no idea that what followed was rape.”

And that wasn’t the only painful sexual experience she had while modeling. “An adult male model who lived above me ... attempted to force me to perform oral sex on him, and I was able to persuade him to stop...” she writes.

As far as the headline-making revelations in the book, Judd admits she’s “really powerless over what the media does with it.” But she hopes readers understand the place she was coming from in telling her story — which was hearing the horror stories of women in impoverished countries around the globe as part of the process of her humanitarian work.

“I began visiting brothels and slums and forcibly displaced persons’ camps, and I wanted to share with the world the stories that, however improbably, were entrusted to me. I didn’t know where to put it, like I didn’t have a place in my brain or in my heart, so I started putting it on the page.

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