In an interview with Diane Sawyer this Thursday morning on “Good Morning America”, famed actress and daughter of the late Legendary Country Singer-Songwriter Naomi Judd, Ashley Judd opened up about coping with the loss and grief of losing her mother and receiving trauma after discovering her body after her death.
In the interview, Ashley discussed the perils of mental illness, mental health, loss, and grief surrounding her mother’s death and also opened up about how her mother died due to a self-inflicted wound by a gunshot. She maintained privacy on the other details surrounding her tragic demise.
The interview revealed how both the sisters are devastated by this event which took place a day before her induction to the Country Music Hall of Fame along with her daughter Wynonna Judd, both constituted the “The Judds”.
Naomi Judd died at the age of 76 on 30 April. Ashley was staying with her at the time in her Tennessee home. She recollected the traumatic incident how she was talking to one of her family friends and then upon trying to notify her, she discovered her body in her room.
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.
Ashley Judd on Good Morning Show
The sisters shortly after their mother’s death, issued a statement stating that they lost their mother to depression. Naomi Judd had been suffering from depression for quite a long time and extensively discussed her battle with depression in her book, a memoir titled “River of Time”.
“Our mother 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.”
Ashley Judd on Good Morning Show
She expresses her concerns and hopes that opening up about the tragic event will urge people suffering from mental illnesses to reach out for help and reach out to their loved ones.
Naomi Judd and Wynonna Judd charted out hits after hits for nearly three decades, scoring 14 Top no. 1 songs. The height of fame reached in the 1980s as they went performing fusions of the Appalachian country music with bold pop.
The duo earned many awards and accolades seven Academy of Country Music Awards and nine Country Music Association awards. They won five Grammy awards and Naomi Judd won the sixth Grammy for writing the song “Love Can Build a Bridge”.
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