Ashley Judd has revealed that she had a troubled childhood that was filled with drugs and sexual abuse in her new memoir, All That is Bitter & Sweet, RadarOnline.com is reporting. The actress also admitted that her mother, country singer Naomi Judd, created a fake life origin for her and her sister, fellow country singer Wynonna Judd. The biography was released on April 5, just days before Naomi and Wynonna’s new reality show, ‘The Judds,’ premieres on OWN on April 10.

In All That is Bitter & Sweet, Ashley claims that Naomi and Wynonna “have been quoted as saying that our family put the ‘fun’ in dysfunction. I wondered: ‘Who, exactly, was having all the fun?’” She also wrote that she was taught to believe their lives were normal, and to never complain. “I was left alone for hours, sometimes days at a time,” Ashley also claims, and added that she was dropped off at the homes of other relatives without warning.

Ashley also claimed that when she was a child, her father, Michael Ciminella, often took hallucinogenics on Saturday nights with his friends in their home. She also wrote about how a man her family knew promised her money to play pinball if she sat on his lap, but he instead forcibly kissed her.

The abuse and her relationship with her mother led to Ashley falling into a deep depression. “I loved my mother, but at the same time I dreaded the mayhem and uncertainty that followed her everywhere,” she added.

Written by: Karen Benardello

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