15 Celebrities With Shockingly Tragic Pasts

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13. Ashley Judd

What the public didn’t know is the fact that she had been hiding her deep childhood secrets that had left her with severe psychological scars.

She decided to reveal them all in her book called “All that is Bitter and Sweet” back in 2011.

One might assume that growing up with your mother and your sister being famous singers and celebrities would have its advantages, but Ashley’s story begs to differ. In her memoirs she admits that she attended 13 different schools from age 5 to 18, and was a victim of both neglect and abuse.

She says she was only 7 years old when she first started feeling alone and depressed. Little Ashley apparently felt like she was forgotten and had no one to turn to. She was also exposed to inappropriate family fights and she witnessed rampant drug and alcohol abuse.

To top all this, Ashley also had to deal with and fend off various sexual predators while she was a teenager.

Determined to put her tragic childhood to good use, she started using her experiences to help other young women who are facing similar abuses through Southeast Asia.