Ashley Judd has taken steps forward after declaring her intention to press charges against Twitter trolls who threatened her with sexual violence.

Ashley Judd Threatened On Twitter

Judd, an avid basketball fan, found herself on the receiving end of a flood of negative, hurtful and threatening tweets his week after she shared her thoughts on the SEC championship game between the University of Kentucky and the University of Arkansas.

“Yesterday I was upset that three Kentucky players were bleeding on the floor…In my impassioned game moment…I wrote, ‘I think Arkansas is playing dirty,’” Judd recounted in an interview with MSNBC.

While Judd expressed her regret at her off the cuff remark, saying that she should have calmed down and articulated her anger without accusing the opposing team of cheating in some way, she still maintains that her statements in no way justify the vile response she received from the public.

@mratcliff57 @MickiNickHarp I apologize for expressing my concern about what felt like unnecessarily aggressive play in that particular way

— ashley judd (@AshleyJudd) March 16, 2015

“When I express a stout opinion during #MarchMadness I am called a whore, c—t, threatened with sexual violence. Not okay,” Judd tweeted on Sunday.

When when I express a stout opinion during #MarchMadness I am called a whore, c—, threatened with sexual violence. Not okay.

— ashley judd (@AshleyJudd) March 15, 2015

On Tuesday, Judd announced she would press charges during an interview with NBC News. Many have rallied around Judd’s campaign to fight online bullies, who have a reputation of hiding behind the anonymity the internet and screen names can provide.

Judd herself took to Twitter on Wednesday to thank fans for their continued support and encouraged the Twitterverse to have a conversation not only about anonymous Twitter threats, but also about the misogyny evident in such hateful messages.

Who would have guessed this would become a robust conversation, at last? Today’s threads show misogyny persists and your voices roar back.

— ashley judd (@AshleyJudd) March 18, 2015

@KWilliamsAuthor Thank you for sharing this and I am sorry#OnlineGenderViolence it is also a part of your experience.

— ashley judd (@AshleyJudd) March 18, 2015

Judd also continued to share threats being sent to her via Twitter.

Here are some examples from today. Again, I apologize for exposing others to such content. Awareness & acceptance precede action.

— ashley judd (@AshleyJudd) March 18, 2015

“@aaronshaffer69: @AshleyJudd what the hell do you even do you stuck up cunt. What are you famous for again.”

— ashley judd (@AshleyJudd) March 18, 2015

@TomAdelsbach @Haleysmilessss SO. You believe I should be sexually violated, degraded, raped, sodomized. NO MATTER WHAT, NO.

— ashley judd (@AshleyJudd) March 17, 2015

I am sorry to retweet but this is a typical example. “@Leeroy_MAX: .@AshleyJudd Go suck on Cal’s two inch dick ye Bitch whore.”

— ashley judd (@AshleyJudd) March 15, 2015

@AshleyJudd @ArkRazorbacks @KySportsRadio @marchmadness @espn Only thing dirty is your mouth after sucking WCS’s dick.

— Sex Panther Percy (@PercyMcNamara) March 15, 2015

@AshleyJudd @ArkRazorbacks @KySportsRadio @marchmadness @espn Only thing dirty is your mouth after sucking WCS’s dick.

— Sex Panther Percy (@PercyMcNamara) March 15, 2015