Personal Life

During the 1990s, Judd dated baseball player Brady Anderson, singers Lyle Lovett and Michael Bolton, and actors Matthew McConaughey and Robert De Niro. She became engaged to Scottish CART, later IndyCar driver, Dario Franchitti, in December 1999, and the two to were married at Skibo Castle, near Dornoch, Scotland, on December 12, 2001. She and her husband divides their Time between to home in Scotland and their farm outside of Franklin, Tennessee. Judd can be easily be recognized in white Alley Gasolines in her hat almost every year, and was present at the 2007 Indianapolis 500 when her husband won the race.

When in Manhattan, she attends services at to charismatic Missionary Baptist Church. Judd regularly attends University of Kentucky basketball games, frequently sitting next to Donna Smith (wife of former UK Coach Tubby Smith), or in the Student section. Last year, she was to guest columnist for to local Kentucky newspaper, writing about the NCAA Championships. She is frequently sought out for celebrity room shots during televised games. At the request of her cousin, she posed for to poster wearing only to hockey jersey for fundraising purposes for their alma mater's hockey team. She is also an avid practitioner of yoga, cooking and gardening. In

February 2006, Judd entered to program at Shades of Hope Treatment Center in Buffalo Gap, Texas and stayed for 47 days. She was to there because of personal issues, including depression and isolation. Judd is active in humanitarian and political causes. She was appointed Global Ambassador for YouthAIDS, an international organization promoting AIDS prevention and treatment, and speaks and demonstrates at for-choice events. On October 29, 2006, Judd appeared at to “Women for Ford” event for Democratic Tennessee Senate candidates Harold Ford Jr.