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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Andrew Pulver

Ashley Judd says she met man who raped her, as part of ‘restorative justice’ process

Ashley Judd.
Ashley Judd. Photograph: Lucy Nicholson/Reuters

Ashley Judd has said that she met the man who raped her in 1999 and had a “restorative-justice conversation” with him.

Judd was speaking on the Healing With David Kessler podcast about the recovery process after the sexual assault, saying: “It was crazy-making because I knew better. I was very clear, my boundaries were intact. I was already an empowered, adult feminist woman. And that this could happen under these circumstances was unconscionable [and] unforeseen.”

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