she revealed that she actually searched for and met up with one of the men who assaulted her for what she calls a "restorative justice conversation."
Appearing on the new episode of the Healing with David Kessler podcast, Judd and the host talked about surviving abuse, before the actress shared what led her to track down one of her rapists
"When a man raped me in 1999, it was crazy-making because I knew better, I was very clear, my boundaries were intact
She made it clear that she "didn't need his cooperation" or "for him to make amends" to her in order to heal.
I had the opportunity to do my trauma work, to do my grief work, to do my healing work,
he explained, saying that, only after that and "with god's help," she began to "slowly approach him."
"I tried to find him, he surfaced really easily and to make a long story short, we ended up in rocking chairs sitting by a creek together," Judd explained.
'I'm very interested in hearing the story you've carried all these years.' And we had a restorative-justice conversation about that."
Judd opened up about surviving sexual abuse as a child in her memoir, "All That Is Bitter and Sweet" and called herself a "three-time rape survivor" in 2019.