Ask AP: Tracy Ashton

Celebrities, Celebrity Q&A, People
on March 18, 2010

Please tell me about the actress who played the one-legged Didi on the TV sitcom My Name Is Earl.
Jim Smith, Medina, Ohio

That’s Tracy Ashton, an improv-comedy performer in the Los Angeles area with the group Attention Deficit Disorder. She appeared in the movies Stuck on You and Inland Empire. In the mid-1990s, while battling a rare form of cancer called myxoid liposarcoma, she had to have her left leg removed from the hip socket down. “In my real life, I’m a single mom,” she says. “I live a normal life, but in the entertainment industry, you don’t see a soccer mom with one leg. People with disabilities are not given those roles. It’s very rare. Hopefully, in the future, they’ll consider someone like me, or someone in a wheelchair, or someone who is blind or deaf or has cerebral palsy.