Ashley Judd Says She Lost a Life-Changing Job & More Work for Speaking Out Against Donald Trump

Ashley Judd reflected on the cost of standing up for her morals.

The 55-year-old actress said that she lost out on multiple jobs, including one she described as “big” and life changing, as a result of speaking out against Donald Trump and voicing support for victims of sexual violence.

Ashley was one of multiple celebrities to take the stage at the Clinton Global Initiative on Monday (September 18) to reaffirm her dedication to voicing her beliefs.

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“Male sexual violence is the up with which we will not put, and, for me, it’s just the hill on which I’m willing to die,” Ashley said, via The Hollywood Reporter. “I’ve seen too much agony, too many shattered souls, and too many women controlled and held back as farmers, as civil servants, as contributors to their community because they couldn’t plan and space the births of their children because when they introduce family planning they get beaten, or used for household labor and fetching water and cooking and cleaning while their sons eat more than they do.”

Ashley professed “love” for boys despite being called a “man hater” by critics. She stressed that she opposed the “boys will be boys” mentality in favor of holding them accountable for their misdeeds.

“And frankly, I’m fed up with the emphasis being on building resilience in girls and women because we’ve gotta look upstream and see from whence this need for resilience comes,” she continued.

The actress said that she receives hate on social media and felt like many people had stopped supporting her. It’s also affected her professionally, revealing she “lost a big job” after quoting the former president at the Women’s March.

“I quoted the president. He said it, he got elected. I quoted him, I got fired and lost income that would’ve changed my life,” she reflected.

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