All That Is Bitter and Sweet by Ashley Judd

This book is a biography of the actress Ashley Judd.  She talks about her emotional suffering from her childhood and her inability to cope with clinical depression.  She felt lonely as a child and grew up in the shadow of her mother and sister’s fame.  This is not a very flattering book to her mom, dad and sister, who frequently neglected and forgot about her.  They come across as selfish, manipulative and callous.  Ashley has learned to recover and survive her past by doing humanitarian work.  She has taken breaks from her acting career to travel as a world ambassador and is an advocate for Population Services International.  This is now her passion.  Ashley Judd comes across as a very sensitive and thoughtful person, who is happy in her marriage.  She has healed the wounds from her childhood and is working on better relationships with her family.