Ashley Judd was primed for depression as a child because she was left on her own while her mother, singer Naomi, toured the world.

The star went public with her battle against depression after she entered a program at Shades of Hope Treatment Center in Buffalo Gap, Texas in February, 2006, and now she admits she has always battled the blues.

The actress says, "I had a very unsafe and unstable childhood about 10 months out of the year. I didn't have my normal, natural little-girl needs met. I was left on my own a great deal. There was a time when I skipped a whole week of school because my mom was on the road, I didn't have a ride and I'd gotten ashamed of calling friends.

"I had my first childhood depression at eight - severe, intense, hole-in-the-soul loneliness. No one noticed."

-Ashley Judd Pictures

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