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How Wynonna Judd Is Keeping Naomi Judd's Memory Alive
Wynonna Judd shared a heartbreaking connection to her precocious ma Naomi Judd astatine the 2023 CMT Music Awards.
While performing a rendition of Foreigner's opus "I Want to Know What Love Is" with Ashley McBryde during the award show's tribute to the precocious Judds singer, Wynonna reflected connected her mother's death.
"Mama, you request to beryllium here," the singer, 58, said during the April 2 lawsuit successful Austin, Texas. "And I miss you, and I emotion you and I don't understand."
It was an particularly affectional infinitesimal arsenic the past nationalist lawsuit Naomi attended earlier her decease was the 2022 CMT Music Awards past April. She died by termination astatine property 76 aboriginal that month, 1 time before she and Wynonna were inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame for their enactment arsenic the philharmonic duo The Judds.
"Well, it's a year," Wynonna told Entertainment Tonight backstage aft her performance. "It's an day and we each person anniversaries. I'm not terminally unique. We each person thing that we look astatine and go, 'What the hell? What's going on? I don't understand.' And that was my 'I don't understand.' I went backmost and distant betwixt hitting a truly precocious enactment and being a diva oregon saying what was connected my bosom and it took implicit and truthful present we are."
And she expressed her anticipation that her euphony offers enactment to others.
"I privation to assistance people," Wynonna continued. "It's like, look astatine my face. Look astatine this face. If you're having a crappy time and conscionable think, ‘If I tin bash it, truthful tin you.' Because it's not easy."
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Weeks aft Naomi's death, a star-studded celebration of beingness service was held successful her memory.
Over the past year, Wynonna and her sister, histrion Ashley Judd, person shared their grieving journeys as good arsenic the ways they continue to grant their mother. For the "No One Else connected Earth" artist, this includes paying tribute done opus and precocious completing her performance bid The Judds: The Final Tour.
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"In the midst of everything that has happened, I said that I would proceed to sing," Wynonna wrote successful a May 2022 Instagram post upon the merchandise of her and Waxahatchee's "Other Side" single. "So, present I am."
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