She continues to leave a deep void for her loved ones. After a years-long battle with depression, shocking news broke in April 2022: Country singer Naomi Judd took her own life at the age of 76. Even though her mother’s mental health problems were known, her daughter Ashley Judd’s (55) death came very suddenly. Now she’s talking for the first time about the moment she found her mother after her suicide…
In an episode of the podcast “All There Is”, the 55-year-old explains that the moment was “traumatic and unexpected because it was a suicide”, but that she was glad that she was there for her mother at that moment. “Even when I walked into the room and saw that she had harmed herself, the first thing I said was, ‘Mom, I see how much you’ve suffered and it’s okay… I’m here, and it It’s okay to let go,'” Naomi remembers.
After the actress had to say goodbye to her mother, she was confronted by the police who were investigating her mother’s death. How Ashley wrote in a New York Times op-ed that she felt “cornered” and “powerless” during the interviews. “The men present gave us the feeling that we were deprived of all boundaries, interrogated and, in my case, treated as if I were a possible suspect in my mother’s suicide,” she also criticized.
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