'I remember this one coming out late,' Jones said. Then a deer that would change her life stepped out. Because she'd never hunted before, her husband asked her to practice slowly raising the rifle and aiming at the deer, even though none were what he wanted her to shoot. That afternoon, Jones found herself in the woods sitting on the trunk of a fallen tree with her husband. 'He said, 'I'm going to take you deer hunting this afternoon.' I said, 'Oh, yes - just agreeing with him.'' Lighting a fire 'I just remember sitting at the kitchen table and my husband said, 'I don't remember the last time I saw you smile, much less laugh,'' Ashley Jones said. 'She's going to be a little sniper': This 7-year-old girl made a 250-yard shot on a deer It was like I was meant to do something else.'īBC America comes to Mississippi to film: Synchronous fireflies star in documentary 'I just felt like there was something missing. 'I really didn't have things I was passionate about doing,' Jones said. Jones said she loved her family and was able to care for them and work, but nothing in her life could bring her out of the dark place she was in and fill the void in her life. It was a hormonal imbalance and that's normal, but I didn't have anything I was passionate about to fall back on.' No way out of a dark place It was like just going through the motions of life without getting anything back from it. 'I was in depression for three months without even knowing it. 'What put me in the depression was a miscarriage,' Jones said. Ashley Jones battled depression and that led her on a journey which changed her life. But five years ago it felt like there was no hope. Her husband, Chad Jones, had a job as an attorney. Ashley Jones had a nice home in Brandon where she and her husband lived with their two young children. Her life seemed to be one that most people wish for.

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Here's what Jones told the Clarion-Ledger in 2019. Watch Video: This lazy bird uses an alligator for transportationĪshley Jones of Brandon, Mississippi will appear in her third season of 'Swamp People'.

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