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Ashley Judd Reveals Her Mother Naomi Judd's Cause of Death
Wynonna Judd and Ashley Judd have each other's backs.
While the sisters have been unfastened astir the ups and downs successful their narration implicit the years, they're continuing to thin connected each different for enactment pursuing the decease of their mother Naomi Judd. As Wynonna precocious shared, their grief has brought them person together.
"We some benignant of look astatine each different like, 'I've got you,' right? And we look astatine each different and we say, 'Yeah,'" the singer, 58, said connected the Sept. 25 occurrence of CBS Sunday Morning. "We're truthful agreed close now. I deliberation much truthful than we person been successful a agelong time."
Naomi died by termination successful April astatine property 76, with Ashley confirming successful an April 30 Instagram post that she and her sister mislaid their "beautiful parent to the illness of intelligence illness."
Wynonna looked backmost at the day Naomi died, describing what a blur it each was. "I got the call, and I went over, and I saw her, and I said goodbye to her successful the hospital, and I closed her eyes, and I kissed her forehead and that was that," she said. "And adjacent happening I know, I'm sitting present connected the broadside structure and I'm conscionable trying to fig retired what's next."
Throughout her life, Naomi spoke publically astir her intelligence wellness struggles, including her conflict with depression. As Wynonna explained, her parent had "incredibly large days successful the mediate of the acheronian days" and described Naomi's decease arsenic a "shock."
"I did not cognize that she was astatine the spot she was astatine erstwhile she ended it due to the fact that she had had episodes earlier and she got better," she said. "That's the situation with intelligence illness. It's truly really mysterious. And that's what I unrecorded successful is like, 'Was determination thing I should person looked for? Or should I person known?' I didn't."
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Wynonna and Naomi weren't conscionable parent and daughter. They were besides bandmates, making up the state euphony duo The Judds. Wynonna reflected connected the highs and lows they experienced successful their relationship.
"We were incredibly adjacent and past she'd get huffy astatine maine and, 'Why did you bash that?'" she recalled. "And past we'd not get on and beryllium disconnected. Then we'd travel backmost unneurotic and hug and cry. It was incredibly complicated. We tried truly hard. And those are the tears due to the fact that I cognize that we tried. And we did beauteous damn good—most of the time."
While Wynonna said she inactive feels "incredibly angry" about her mother's death, she noted she's capable to retrieve fond moments from their beingness together, too.
"She told maine 1 time, she took my manus and she said, 'My beingness is amended due to the fact that of you,'" she said. "Those are the memories that are starting to travel done much and more. I deliberation erstwhile you suffer your mother, a batch of that crap goes distant 'cause it doesn't substance anymore. It conscionable doesn't."
Both Wynonna and Ashley are continuing to transportation connected Naomi's legacy. Just 1 time aft their mother's death, the sisters attended the ceremonial for The Judds' induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame. Ashley and Wynonna besides paid tribute to Naomi during a televised memorial service successful May.
And aboriginal this month, Wynonna volition transportation retired a circuit she and her parent had been scheduled to bash together, which volition diagnostic appearances by Brandi Carlile, Faith Hill, Little Big Town and much stars. As Wynonna wrote successful an Instagram post, "It whitethorn look a small antithetic now, but we WILL proceed to grant The Judds' legacy! It's astonishing to me, each of the artists who person travel guardant offering their clip and their gifts. I americium feeling truthful grateful."
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