Ashley Judd Recalls Treatment

Jul 5, 3:58 PM EST

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Ashley Judd says she spent 47 days in a Texas treatment facility for depression and other emotional problems, in an interview in Glamour magazine.

"I needed help," the 38-year-old actress tells the magazine in its August issue. "I was in so much pain."

Judd, the daughter of country music star Naomi Judd, says she entered the Shades of Hope Treatment Center in Buffalo Gap in February for "codependence in my relationships; depression, blaming, raging, numbing, denying and minimizing my feelings."

"But because my addictions were behavioral, not chemical, I wouldn't have known to seek treatment. At Shades of Hope, my behaviors were treated like addictions. And those behaviors were killing me spiritually, the same as someone who is sitting on a corner with a bottle in a brown paper bag."

Judd says she was visiting her sister, singer Wynonna Judd, who was being treated for food addictions.

"When (the counselors) approached me about treatment, they said, `No one ever does an intervention on people like you. You look too good; you're too smart and together. But you (and Wynonna) come from the same family — so you come from the same wound.' No one had ever validated my pain before. It was so profound," she says.

Judd says her childhood was a time of "complete and total chaos." She attended 13 schools in 12 years and lived alternately with her mother, grandmother and father.

As a result, Judd says, she became "a hypervigilant child," striving to be perfect.

"A wonderful pastor once told me, `Perfectionism is the highest order of self-abuse,'" she tells the magazine. "So now I try to remind myself that if I engage in perfectionism, I am abusing myself. Period."

Judd says her relationships, including her marriage to race-car driver Dario Franchitti, have improved.

"It's so simple really: I was unhappy and now I'm happy," she says. "Now, even when I'm having a rough day, it's better than my best day before treatment."

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Swank says husband's addiction hurt marriage

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oscar-winning actress Hilary Swank said the breakdown of her eight-year marriage to actor Chad Lowe was partially due to the substance abuse problem he had been battling.
Swank, who won best-actress Oscars for her performance in "Million Dollar Baby" and "Boys Don't Cry," confirmed in May that the couple had decided to end their marriage after separating in January but gave no reason for the split.

Swank told the latest edition of magazine Vanity Fair, which arrived on newsstands on Wednesday, that she was shocked when she found out about Lowe's addiction, which contributed to their marriage's slide.

"I don't want to make it seem like that's the sole reason; there were other factors," Swank said. "But that just kind of blew it open; it made me look at things a lot deeper.

"It's an enormous obstacle to overcome and he's doing it. He's living a sober life. I know how difficult it is and I'm really proud of his sobriety."

A representative for Lowe had no comment on the report.

Swank, 31, did not give details on what substances were abused by Lowe, who works mostly in television and whose career has been overshadowed by Swank's, as well that of his better-known older brother Rob Lowe.

Swank and Lowe, 38, married in September 1997. She said she initiated the divorce but it ended up being mutual.

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Blast On!

Sun Jul 02, 9:35 PM ET
Fiery Fourth-style mailbag to get to, but first, remember how I told you all last week that I didn't buy the bust-up rumors swirling around Justin Timberlake and Cameron Diaz? Sorta the same way I don't care to swallow this poor-me Tori Spelling bitching (which T.S. is busy peddling) about how she found out her dad passed away via a BlackBerry?

Uh, should the gal who utilized the family therapist to tell her first husband she was leaving him really be one to complain about the insensitive relaying of vital information? Just asking. Back to those adorable surfer sweeties:

I got one of Timberlake's costars from Alpha Dog, Olivia Wilde, to gimme her thoughts on the reported split. This very necessary quizzing went down well at the Spirit of Independence Awards. (Feisty femme Charlize Theron was being honored, but more on that after the holiday!)

"They were definitely closer than any couple I've ever seen in my life when we were making the film," Wilde said. "And he worshipped her. He told me he thought she was his guiding light and his savior." But other mutual pals say that J.T. simply adores the leggy former model perhaps a teensy tad more than she does him?

Back to O., who also told me Justin looks to Cam for overzealous-press pointers, a sure sign of utter dependence, to be sure. "The paparazzi is a really tough thing for (Justin), and he feels like he couldn't get through it without her," Ms. W. explained. Now, remember, Cammie's been known to go ape-crap on pesky photogs, so don't be surprised if Justin starts using her tactics!

Now on to other vitriolic vampings, 'kay, kittens?

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Natalie Imbruglia Campaigns For Childbirth Disease Awareness

Australian pop star Natalie Imbruglia has lent her support to an awareness campaign for childbirth disease obstetric fistula. The hitmaker has joined forces with the United Nations Population Fund to bring attention to the millions of women who lose their babies and health to the condition in developing countries.
Fistula causes severe tissue damage during extended childbirth, often resulting in infant mortality and embarrassing incontinence in the mother.
Imbruglia, who has visited Africa on several occasions, says, "It just should not be happening, that women cannot safely have a child in this day and age. How can you not be compelled to want to draw attention to this issue? If you could help just one of these women, to me, it is literally giving that woman her life back. That is how I think about it. They need a voice. Nobody wants to talk about being incontinent. These women are suffering in silence. It is shameful for them - you can see it in their faces."

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Johny Deep loves creating quirky characters and doesn’t care about box office

In “Dead Man’s Chest,” crafty Jack Sparrow seeks to avoid paying the debt he owes to undersea overlord Davy Jones (Bill Nighy). Sparrow tricks young lovebirds Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) and Elizabeth Swann (Kiera Knightley) into helping him, and the three take off on an adventurous escapade that includes fighting sea monsters, infiltrating an island community and searching the watery underworld for the legendary “dead man’s chest.”The film has heart, Nighy says, attributing the appeal of the first “Pirates” movie to Depp’s depiction of Sparrow.
“It must be one of the most popular performances of recent times,” Nighy says. “Not only is [Depp] an assassin in terms of comedy and everything else — he’s a brilliant guy — but he brings to it, and to the movie as a whole, a big-heartedness. It has good spirit.”
Depp has tried to pour his soul into all his performances, he says, whether they were in a tiny independent film or a big-budget blockbuster. Commercial success, while appealing, was not crucial, he says.
“It didn’t make sense to me that you go into work and put as much of yourself and your heart into something, and in the end, all it’s about is how much money it makes at the box office. Eeew,” he says with disgust. “I can’t think that way.”
His movies were “box-office poison,” he says, but “it never felt that way to me.”
“I’m not comfortable saying movies are art,” Depp says. “I don’t know that they can be because there’s so much money involved.”Is ‘Hamlet’ in his future?So it is, he says, he approaches his work from an artistic, not financial, perspective. Box-office receipts “are kind of none of my business,” he says.
“You have to have some sort of legacy in truth and honesty that you leave to your kiddies and the people you love.”
Depp’s two children, with partner Vanessa Paradis, help the actor feel grounded and give him a stable launching point from which to explore his craft.Being a parent, he says, has “given me real foundation, a real strong place to stand — in life, in work, in everything.”
As he looks ahead, Depp says he still hopes to one day take Marlon Brando’s advice, which he relays in a “Godfather” voice: “You ought to play Hamlet while you’re still young enough to do it.”
“The clock’s ticking on that,” Depp says. “There’s only a couple more years that I’ve got, otherwise I’ll be playing Hamlet’s father.”
If he takes on the role, it would be in a “tiny, tiny little theater,” he says.
Or not.
“As careers go, you’ve got your ups, you’ve got your downs, peaks and valleys and all that,” he says. “I may end up doing special appearances at shopping malls as Jack Sparrow. You never know.”

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