Ashley Judd describes how she broke her leg in the Congo

Ashley Judd has recounted a painful ordeal she believes almost cost her a leg after she tripped in a Congolese rainforest and was evacuated by motorbike.

The actor said she was stuck on the ground for five hours with a “badly misshapen leg,” biting a stick and “howling like a wild animal” due to the pain.

Judd, 52, was injured when, up early with researchers in a rainforest looking for bonobos, she tripped over a log and the fall shattered her tibia.

She was carried from…