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... and only hours before The Judds were due to be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.
This is a little eerie for me, because about 20-ish years ago, volatile model Naomi Campbell attempted suicide (yeah, right) and I went around for most of the day thinking the wrong Naomi had tried to kill herself --- and if it weren't for some work chums setting me straight, that it was Campbell and not Judd, I'd still be thinking today that Mama Judd had done it...
Only now, she has.
Country music legend Naomi Judd, who died late last month at the age of 76, died of a self-inflicted firearm wound, her daughter, Hollywood star Ashley Judd, revealed.
The Grammy winner, who performed alongside daughter Wynonna Judd in the top-selling country music duo The Judds, died on April 30, just one day before she was scheduled to be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.
Wynonna Judd, 57, and sister Ashley Judd, 54, confirmed their mother's death in a statement to TODAY on May 1.
“Today we sisters experienced a tragedy. We lost our beautiful mother to the disease of mental illness,” the statement said. “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.”
Ashley Judd opened up about her mother's death in an interview Thursday with ABC News, revealing Naomi Judd “used a firearm.”
“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,” she added. “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.”
Naomi Judd had been candid for many years about her struggle with mental illness, even publishing a 2016 memoir about the subject, “River of Time: My Descent into Depression and How I Emerged with Hope,” which she called a “survivor’s manual about how to survive depression and anxiety.”
During a visit to TODAY in December 2017, she described falling into a “dark hole of depression” in 2011 that came “out of nowhere.”
This is a little eerie for me, because about 20-ish years ago, volatile model Naomi Campbell attempted suicide (yeah, right) and I went around for most of the day thinking the wrong Naomi had tried to kill herself --- and if it weren't for some work chums setting me straight, that it was Campbell and not Judd, I'd still be thinking today that Mama Judd had done it...
Only now, she has.
Naomi Judd’s cause of death is revealed
Gina VivinettoCountry music legend Naomi Judd, who died late last month at the age of 76, died of a self-inflicted firearm wound, her daughter, Hollywood star Ashley Judd, revealed.
The Grammy winner, who performed alongside daughter Wynonna Judd in the top-selling country music duo The Judds, died on April 30, just one day before she was scheduled to be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.
Wynonna Judd, 57, and sister Ashley Judd, 54, confirmed their mother's death in a statement to TODAY on May 1.
“Today we sisters experienced a tragedy. We lost our beautiful mother to the disease of mental illness,” the statement said. “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.”
Ashley Judd opened up about her mother's death in an interview Thursday with ABC News, revealing Naomi Judd “used a firearm.”
“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,” she added. “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.”
Naomi Judd had been candid for many years about her struggle with mental illness, even publishing a 2016 memoir about the subject, “River of Time: My Descent into Depression and How I Emerged with Hope,” which she called a “survivor’s manual about how to survive depression and anxiety.”
During a visit to TODAY in December 2017, she described falling into a “dark hole of depression” in 2011 that came “out of nowhere.”
