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Wynonna Judd updates fans on mental health journey
Wynonna Judd has a message for fans about her mental health.
On Tuesday, the country singer posted a video on Instagram addressing her mental health in the wake of her mother Naomi’s death by suicide in April 2022. She addressed a comment in which a fan accused her of not looking “well” and claimed that her manager pushed Judd too hard and was getting “greedy” with opportunities for the “Love Is a Bridge” artist.
“I have heard some of the comments, and the first thought that I had was, ‘Opinions and buttholes,’” Judd explained in the video, where she also shared the comment onscreen. “And then I realized people are genuinely concerned, so I want to respond to that piece. I am working so hard on my mental, physical and spiritual well being. I have a great team, and I’m really blessed. And I’m broken, and I’m working really hard at self care — which is not selfish, it’s sacred.”
She joked that she likens her life to “Wynonna Incorporated,” because she incorporates “a lot” into her life, including family time.
“I have a very full schedule, but I also have time off to be on the farm and to walk in the woods and take the dogs, and tonight is Mexican night, we’re playing games and it’s family,” she concluded. “So I’m OK. The last thing I’ll say is, you can’t keep a good woman down for too long.”
Earlier this week, Judd shared on social media that she would not be joining Kelsea Ballerini on stage for a New Year’s Eve performance in Nashville, due to “an extreme bout of vertigo.”
“Nashville, I am absolutely heartbroken and so sorry to have let you all down tonight,” Judd said in an Instagram message. “Kelsea, I look forward to stepping onstage with you in February, better than ever!!!!”
Last year, Judd spoke out about her mother’s passing, and how it has made her reflect on her own mental health. In a May Instagram post, she wrote that she did not want Naomi’s death to be how the Judd family story ended, and vowed to do the work to help the next generation.
“I DO know, that in order to be a healthier grandparent to my firstborn grandchild Kaliyah, {born 4/13, 2 weeks & 2 days before Mom left}, to break the cycle of addiction & family dysfunction, that I must continue to show up for myself {first} and do the personal healing work,” she wrote at the time. “I know that it is a simple steps program, and those steps are not easy to take at times. Therefore, I’ve made a commitment to keep doing the ‘next right thing,’ and schedule weekly appointments so that I continue with the ongoing work, even when I have good days.”
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Naomi Judd Autopsy Reveals Details About Country Superstar’s Death – Deadline
UPDATED: An autopsy report obtained by the Associated Press today regarding country music superstar Naomi Judd’s death earlier this year confirmed Ashley Judd’s assertion that her mother died after she shot herself with a gun.
The report also indicated the presence of prescription drugs in the Judd matriarch’s system. Those medications are used to address post-traumatic stress and bipolar disorders.
“We have always shared openly both the joys of being family as well as its sorrows, too. One part of our story is that our matriarch was dogged by an unfair foe,” the family said in a statement to AP. “She was treated for PTSD and bipolar disorder, to which millions of Americans can relate.”
A few weeks ago Ashley Judd, sister Wynonna and Naomi’s husband Larry Strickland petitioned authorities to seal the police reports related to her death, with Strickland indicating he did not know the interviews were being recorded.
PREVIOUSLY on May 12: Country music superstar Naomi Judd died of a self-inflicted firearm wound on April 30, daughter Ashley Judd said on ABC’s Good Morning America today.
“Mother used a firearm,” Judd told ABC’s Diane Sawyer in an emotional interview this morning. “That’s the piece of information that we are very uncomfortable sharing, but understand that we’re in a position that if we don’t say it, someone else is going to.”
Watch an excerpt of the interview below.
Actress Judd added, “She obviously was suffering, and, as such, her days up until that moment were hurtful to her.” She said she had been authorized by the Judd family to discuss Naomi’s death in order to spread awareness of the disease of mental illness and available treatments.
“There are some things that we would just like to retain as a family,” she said. “Both sister and Pop [Judd’s stepfather Larry Strickland] have sort of deputized me in certain ways to speak on behalf of the family at this early time before things about the 30th of April become public without our control.
“When we’re talking about mental illness, it’s very important and — to be clear, and to make the distinction between our loved one and the disease,” she added. “It’s very real — and it’s enough to — it lies. It’s savage.”
Judd said Naomi “couldn’t hang on until she was inducted into the Hall of Fame by her peers. That is the level of catastrophe of what was going on inside of her, because the barrier between the regard in which they held her couldn’t penetrate into her heart, and the lie the disease told her was so convincing.”
The Judds, including Naomi, were inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame on May 1. The induction was announced last summer.
Today’s interview comes just days before a scheduled public memorial for the five-time Grammy winner, an event that will air live on CMT this Sunday. Naomi Judd: A River of Time Celebration is being produced by CMT and Sandbox Live in partnership with the Judd family. CMT will exclusively televise the public memorial service as a commercial-free special on Sunday, May 15th at 6 p.m. PT / 5 p.m. CT.
-Nancy Tartaglione contributed to this report
.@ashleyjudd to @dianesawyer on her late mother Naomi Judd: “Our mother couldn’t hang on until she was inducted into the Hall of Fame by her peers. I mean, that is the level of catastrophe of what was going on inside of her.“ https://t.co/HNL2XqNE6z pic.twitter.com/Uzi7X0hUDG
— Good Morning America (@GMA) May 12, 2022
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Wynonna Judd Performs “Love Can Build A Bridge” | Naomi Judd: A River of Time Celebration
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Naomi Judd remembered in song and tears at public memorial
Her daughter, actress Ashley Judd, was welcomed to the stage at the beginning of the tribute with a standing ovation.
“Thank you for being in community and fellowship with us,” the younger Judd said. “Because we can pretend to care, but we cannot pretend to show up. So thank you for showing up for our mom.”
She explained that her mother had wanted the public memorial to be held at Ryman, the former home of the Grand Ole Opry, which she referred to as the “mother church.”
Judd also offered an obituary about her mother before introducing her older sister, Wynonna, who emotionally performed a song their mother wrote, “River of Time.”
“I’m holding back a flood of tears/Just thinking ’bout those happy years,” Wynonna Judd sang. “Like all the good times that are no more. My love is gone, gone, gone forever more.”
The event was hosted by Judd family friend and “Good Morning America” co-host Robin Roberts.
“She loved with her whole heart and I know she would be so touched by the outpouring of love in all of our hearts tonight , especially the love towards her daughters,” Roberts said of Judd.
Wynonna and Naomi Judd made up the Grammy-winning duo The Judds and plenty of their hits were performed by current artists, including Little Big Town, Jamey Johnson, EmmyLou Harris with Allison Russell and Brad Paisley.
Members of The Gaither Vocal Band also performed a gospel song as tribute to Judd’s love of spiritual music.
Rock star Bono appeared in a video where he recited the lyrics to the Judd’s song, “Guardian Angel.” Other stars also offered remarks via video including Oprah Winfrey, Salma Hayek, Reese Witherspoon, Morgan Freeman and Bette Midler.
Judd’s husband, Larry Strickland, spoke to those gathered explaining that his wife never met a stranger and enjoyed talking to everyone she came across.
He read an email he received from a man who met his wife on a flight and shared how Judd expressed her love for her husband and their life together.
“Needless to say it brought great pleasure and comfort to me,” Strickland said, emotionally.
Wynonna Judd made the audience laugh by teasing about her sometimes tumultuous relationship with her mother.
“We’re showing the world what a dysfunctional family does,” she said as she looked at her sister and Strickland. “You show up for each other.”
She returned to the stage to peform “The Rose” with Brandi Carlile.
Judd announced that to honor her mother, she planned to continue on the tour they were supposed to do together. She then closed the show with a rousing rendition of “Love Can Build a Bridge.”
Naomi Judd memorial special to featuring performances by Little Big Town and Brandi Carlile
Naomi Judd’s memorial special will air on CMT featuring performances by Little Big Town and Brandi Carlile as well as a video message from Oprah
- Country legend Naomi Judd’s memorial will air on CMT this weekend
- The Judds singer, who was 76 when she passed, will have her life looked back on
- The tribute is titled Naomi Judd: A River of Time Celebration
- It will take place in Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium beginning at 6 PM eastern time on Sunday
Country legend Naomi Judd’s memorial will air on CMT this weekend.
The Judds singer, who was 76 when she passed, will have her life put front and center during the tribute titled Naomi Judd: A River of Time Celebration.
It will take place in Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium beginning at 6 PM eastern time on Sunday.
Gone but not forgotten: Country legend Naomi Judd’s memorial will air on CMT this weekend (pictured April 2022)
A number of special guests are set to participate in one way or another in honor of the late Judd.
Good Morning America anchor Robin Roberts will host the memorial which will feature performances by Little Big Town, Brandi Carlile, Ashley McBryde, Emmylou Harris, Allison Russell and The Gaithers.
Bono, Oprah Winfrey, Morgan Freeman and Salma Hayek are reportedly sending in video messages for the special event.
All about her: The Judds singer, who was 76 when she passed, will have her life front and center during the tribute titled Naomi Judd: A River of Time Celebration (L to R: Naomi Judd, Ashley Judd and Wynonna Judd pictured 2005)
Taking a part: A number of stars, including Oprah (pictured 2019), will participate in the memorial in some capacity on Sunday
Martina McBride, Naomi’s daughters Ashley and Wynonna and Naomi’s husband Larry Strickland will all appear at the event as well.
Naomi died of a self-inflicted firearm wound on Saturday, April 30, according to her daughter Ashley.
Ashley said on Good Morning America that her mother died from ‘the disease of mental illness.’ The Mama He’s Crazy singer openly talked about her mental health issues for years.
The Double Jeopardy actress said she was the person who discovered her mother after her suicide.
‘I have both grief and trauma from discovering her,’ the 54-year-old said.
Traumatic: Naomi died of a self-inflicted firearm wound on Saturday, April 30, according to her daughter Ashley who found her body (L to R: Ashley Judd, Wynonna Judd, Naomi Judd)
A big honor: Naomi took her own life just a day before she and her daughter Wynonna, 57, were set to be inducted to the Country Music Hall of Fame (pictured 2016)
Naomi took her own life just a day before she and her daughter Wynonna, 57, were set to be inducted to the Country Music Hall of Fame as members of the music duo The Judds.
‘That is the level of catastrophe of what was going on inside of her,’ Ashley said. ‘Because the barrier between the regard in which they held her couldn’t penetrate into her heart and the lie the disease told her was so convincing.’
Despite the tragedy, Ashley and Wynonna still attended the induction and delivered a heartfelt speech dedicated to their mom.
‘My mama loved you so much and she appreciated your love for her,’ Wynonna said during the speech. ‘And I’m sorry that she couldn’t hang on until today. Your esteem for her and your regard for her really penetrated her heart. And it was your affection for her that did keep her going in these last years.’
Naomi Judd Died of a Self-Inflicted Gunshot Wound, Her Daughter Says
When Naomi Judd, the Grammy-winning country music singer, died last month, her daughter Ashley Judd said that she had lost her mother to the “disease of mental illness.” On Thursday, Ms. Judd was more candid, saying in a television interview that her mother had died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at her home in Tennessee, and encouraging people who are distressed to seek help.
Ms. Judd, an actress, told Diane Sawyer on “Good Morning America” that she was speaking out about her mother’s death because her family wanted to share the information before it became “public without our control.”
“We’re aware that although grieving the loss of a wife and a mother, we are, in an uncanny way, a public family,” Ms. Judd said. “So that’s really the impetus for this timing. Otherwise, it’s obviously way too soon. So that’s important for us to say up front.”
Naomi Judd and her other daughter, Wynonna Judd, dominated the country music charts in the 1980s as the mother-daughter duo the Judds. Naomi Judd, 76, died on April 30, a day before the duo was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.
In the interview on Thursday, Ashley Judd said she was visiting her mother at her home outside Nashville when she died. Ms. Judd said she went outside to greet a friend of her mother’s who had stopped by, and when she went upstairs to tell her mother that the friend had arrived, she found her mother dead.
“Mother used a firearm,” Ms. Judd said. “That’s the piece of information that we are very uncomfortable sharing, but understand that we’re in a position that if we don’t say it, someone else is going to.”
“Mom was a brilliant conversationalist, she was a star, she was an underrated songwriter,” Ms. Judd said. “And she was someone who suffered from mental illness, you know, and had a lot of trouble getting off the sofa, except to go into town every day to the Cheesecake Factory, where all the staff knew and loved her.”
Naomi Judd was born in Ashland, a coal-mining town in northeastern Kentucky, and lived in California before moving to Nashville in 1979, as a single mother with two daughters.
Ms. Judd supported her family by working as a nurse while pursuing a music career with Wynonna. Their break came in 1983, when Ms. Judd cared for a patient who turned out to be the daughter of an executive at RCA Records. A record deal, nine Country Music Association Awards, five Grammys and 14 No. 1 hits followed.
Ashley Judd said in the interview that her mother was most alive when she was performing.
“She was very isolated in many ways because of the disease,” Ms. Judd said. “And yet there were a lot of people who showed up for her over the years, not just me.”
Ms. Judd encouraged people in distress to seek help and cited resources, including the national suicide hotline and the National Alliance for Mental Illness, a mental health organization that also has a hotline.
“And so I want to be very careful when we talk about this today,” Ms. Judd said, “that for anyone who is having those ideas or those impulses, you know, to talk to someone, to share, to be open, to be vulnerable.”
If you are having thoughts of suicide, in the United States call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-8255 (TALK) or go to SpeakingOfSuicide.com/resources for a list of additional resources. Go here for resources outside the United States.
Naomi Judd Cause of Death: Self-Inflicted Gunshot Wound
Naomi Judd, the country music icon who died on April 30 at the age of 75, died of a self-inflicted firearm wound, her daughter, Ashley Judd, disclosed on Thursday morning.
Ashley Judd made an appearance on “Good Morning America” to speak with Diane Sawyer about her mother’s death and how the Judd family has been coping in the weeks since. She said her family wanted to control the flow of information about the death before an autopsy was released.
“She used a weapon…my mother used a firearm,” Ashley told Sawyer. “So that’s the piece of information that we are very uncomfortable sharing, but understand that we’re in a position that if we don’t say it someone else is going to.”
Ashley said that she was deputized by her family to discuss her mother’s death in order to shed light on the disease and shine a light on a path for fans that need help.
“My mother knew that she was seen and she was heard in her anguish, and she was walked home,” she said, adding, “When we’re talking about mental illness, it’s very important to be clear and to make the distinction between our loved one and the disease. It’s very real, and it lies, it’s savage.”
Ashley also said that despite her mother’s imminent induction to the Country Music Hall of Fame, she wasn’t able to keep facing the disease.
“Our mother couldn’t hang on until she was inducted into the Hall of Fame by her peers,” she said. “That is the level of catastrophe of what was going on inside of her, because the barrier between the regard in which they held her couldn’t penetrate into her heart, and the lie the disease told her was so convincing.”
Ashley also detailed her mother’s final day.
“It was a mixed day,” she said. “I visit with my mom and pop every day when I’m home in Tennessee, so I was at the house visiting as I am every day. Mom said to me, ‘Will you stay with me?’ and I said, ‘Of course I will.’…I went upstairs to let her know that her good friend was there and I discovered her. I have both grief and trauma from discovering her.”
She also encouraged fans to reach out the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (800-273-8255) if they need help.
In a statement released by Ashley Judd and her sister, Wynonna, immediately following their mother’s death, the two attributed her death to “the disease of mental illness.”
“Today we sisters experienced a tragedy,” the statement said, according to the Associated Press. “We lost our beautiful mother to the disease of mental illness. We are shattered. We are navigating profound grief and know that as we loved her, she was loved by her public. We are in unknown territory.”
On the day following Naomi Judd’s death, The Judds, a musical duo composed of Wynonna Judd and her mother, was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in a tearful ceremony.
“I didn’t prepare anything tonight because I knew mom would probably talk the most,” Wynonna told the audience during the induction. “I’m gonna make this fast, because my heart’s broken, and I feel so blessed. It’s a very strange dynamic, to be this broken and this blessed… Though my heart’s broken, I will continue to sing, because that’s what we do.”
Ashley Judd pays tribute to mom Naomi and blasts Roe v. Wade reversal in Op-Ed
Ashley Judd took aim at the potential overturning of Roe v. Wade in an Op-Ed honoring her late mother Naomi as she celebrates her first Mothers Day without her.
Judd, 54, penned the Op-Ed for USA Today in which she remembered her late mother Naomi Judd, who reportedly killed herself last month a day before she was set to be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.
‘This Sunday is abruptly, shockingly, my first Mother’s Day without my mama,’ the actress wrote. ‘She died just days before my sister and I could show her again how much we love and honor her.
‘It wasn’t supposed to be this way. I was supposed to visit her on Sunday, to give her a box of old-fashioned candy, our family tradition,’ Judd added. ‘Instead, I am unmoored. But my heart is not empty. It is replete with gratitude for what she left behind. Her nurture and tenderness, her music and memory.’
Judd, known for her roles in such movies as ‘Kiss the Girls,’ ‘Double Jeopardy’ and ‘Heat’ also wrote about her mother’s journey with mental illness and how despite having motherhood forced on to her, she still did her best.
Judd wrote that her mother ‘had to fight like hell to overcome the hand she was dealt, to earn her place in history,’
Ashley and her sister Wynonna – (pictured together) who performed with Naomi for years in ‘The Judds’ – revealed she had succumbed to the ‘disease of mental illness’
Judd described her ‘incandescent rage’ at the possibility of Roe v. Wade being overturned, citing maternal death rates, and the high murder and suicide rates of pregnant women
‘Motherhood happened to her without her consent,’ Judd wrote. ‘She experienced an unintended pregnancy at age 17, and that led her down a road familiar to so many adolescent mothers, including poverty and gender-based violence.’
Judd wrote that her mother ‘had to fight like hell to overcome the hand she was dealt, to earn her place in history,’ adding: ‘She shouldn’t have had to fight that hard to share her gifts with the world.’
The actress then describes her ‘incandescent rage’ at the possibility of Roe v. Wade being overturned, citing maternal death rates, and the high murder and suicide rates of pregnant women.
‘Motherhood should always be a choice. Does that sound radical to you? Does that sound like I wish my sister and I hadn’t been born? If that’s what you think, I will gladly direct my incandescent rage at you,’ she wrote.
‘How much could we, as a society, possibly value motherhood when it is assumed to be an inevitability? When we accept as normal that women and girls will drop out of school and the workforce because they are expected to take on the unpaid labor of child care? When we fail to protect girls from poverty and violence?’ she continued.
Ahead of Mother’s Day Ashley Judd, 54, (left) penned an Op-Ed for USA Today where she remembered her late mother Naomi Judd. Naomi (right) reportedly killed herself last month a day before she was set to be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame
Judd then pleaded people honor their mothers by ‘demanding a world where motherhood, everywhere, is safe, healthy – and chosen’
Her Op-Ed comes days after the US Supreme Court looks set to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark ruling that effectively legalized abortions across America.
A draft legal opinion, which was leaked to Politico, reveals five Republican-nominated judges – a majority of the court’s nine judges – are in agreement on the issue which would be enough to force a change in the law — though their decision is not final until the ruling is officially published.
In the leaked document, conservative Justice Samuel Alito writes that Roe v Wade – the 1973 Supreme Court ruling which found that excessive state regulation of abortion is unconstitutional – was ‘egregiously wrong from the start’ and ‘must be overruled’
Days earlier Judd lost her mother after the legendary singer took her own life, leaving her family devastated.
Ashley and her sister Wynonna – who performed with her for years in ‘The Judds’ – revealed she had succumbed to the ‘disease of mental illness.’
Naomi Judd had written extensively about her struggles with depression, and even referenced suicide in an open letter published in People magazine in 2018.
In her 2018 essay, Naomi Judd advocated for more research into the nature of suicide.
Judd’s Op-Ed comes days after the US Supreme Court looks set to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark ruling that effectively legalized abortions across America
‘To understand this issue better, we have to bring the study of suicide into mainstream neuroscience and treat the condition like every other brain disorder,’ she wrote.
‘People who commit suicide are experiencing problems with mood, impulse control and aggression, all of which involve discrete circuits in the brain that regulate these aspects of human experience, but we still don’t understand how these circuits go haywire in the brains of suicide victims.’
She described what depression feels like to her in an interview with People magazine in 2016.
‘Nobody can understand it unless you’ve been there,’ she said.
‘Think of your very worst day of your whole life – someone passed away, you lost your job, you found out you were being betrayed, that your child had a rare disease – you can take all of those at once and put them together and that’s what depression feels like.’
In her book ‘River of Time: My Descent into Depression and How I Emerged with Hope’ she writes about struggles a single mother and a survivor of domestic abuse and sexual assault.
At the height of their popularity, Naomi lived through the previously incurable Hepatitis C virus, having been pronounced cured five years after the diagnosis.
The mother-daughter performers scored 14 No. 1 songs in a career that spanned nearly three decades. After rising to the top of country music, they called it quits in 1991 after doctors diagnosed Naomi with hepatitis.
The Judds’ hits included Love Can Build a Bridge in 1990, Mama He’s Crazy in 1984, Why Not Me in 1984, Turn It Loose in 1988, Girls Night Out in 1985, Rockin’ With the Rhythm of the Rain in 1986 and Grandpa in 1986.
Naomi Judd to be inducted into Country Music Hall of Fame one day after her death
The Country Music Hall of Fame was “shocked and saddened” by Judd’s death, CEO Kyle Young said in a statement on Twitter. However, Judd’s family asked that the induction of the mother-daughter duo The Judds continue as planned, he said.
“We will do so, with heavy hearts,” Young wrote.
Judd passed away at the age of 76, her daughters announced Saturday, hours before the country music legend — one half of The Judds, along with her daughter Wynonna — was to be celebrated at the Nashville museum’s Medallion Ceremony.
It’s unclear how the ceremony might be changed or adjusted in the wake of Judd’s passing. A separate tweet on the Hall of Fame’s page announced the pre-ceremony “Red Carpet Experience,” scheduled for Sunday afternoon, had been canceled in light of Judd’s death.
In their announcements shared on Twitter, Judd’s daughters Wynonna and Ashley, an actress, wrote that they “lost our beautiful mother to the disease of mental illness.”
“We are navigating profound grief and know that as we loved her, she was loved by her public,” her daughters’ statement added. “We are in unknown territory.”
Naomi Judd shared during a 2016 appearance on “Good Morning America” that she had been diagnosed with severe depression and anxiety. That same year, she wrote a book titled “River of Time: My Descent into Depression and How I Emerged with Hope” explaining her struggles.
In its announcement of the 2021 members-elect, the Hall of Fame credited Naomi and Wynonna Judd with helping “take country back to its roots in the 1980s with lean, tuneful songs influenced by traditional folk music, acoustic blues, and family harmony acts.”
The mother-daughter duo began performing together as a professional act in the early 1980s, soon producing a string of major hits like “Mama He’s Crazy” and “Love Can Build a Bridge,” and selling more than 20 million records. Between 1984 and 1991, The Judds won five Grammys and had 14 No. 1 singles, per the Hall of Fame.
While Wynonna sang lead, “Naomi provided harmony, wit, and a sashaying stage presence that engaged audiences,” the Hall of Fame said.
The announcement was updated after the news Judd had died, noting, “The museum, the Judds’ family and fans, and the entertainment industry mourn her sudden passing.”
The Judds performed together publicly for the first time in years at the CMT Music Awards early last month, singing “Love Can Build a Bridge.” Judd’s death also came soon after the announcement of The Judds’ 10-date “Final Tour,” which was scheduled to begin in September.
CNN’s Andy Rose and Christina Maxouris contributed to this report.