“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,” she said. “My mother knew that she was seen and she was heard in her anguish,” she said.ĭespite this, Ashley said, her mother became unable to cope. She added that her mother had both resources and support in her battle with depression. “I have both grief and trauma from discovering her,” Ashley told her interviewer, Diane Sawyer. It was one day before Naomi and Wynonna were to be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. When Ashley went to get her mother to let her know about the visitor, she said, she saw her mother had shot herself. She had gone to visit her mother at her home in Nashville, Tennessee, she said, before leaving momentarily to welcome a family friend. “We’re very uncomfortable sharing but understand that we are in the position if we don’t say it, someone else is going to,” Ashley said.Īshley’s sister Wynonna, also a renowned singer who formed the Judds with her mother, did not appear on ABC because she was not ready to talk about her mother’s death.Īshley described Naomi’s last day alive. “My mother used a firearm.”Īshley said she understood the public would know her mother died by her own hand once an autopsy was released, but wanted to be in control of the news. “I will share with you that she used a weapon,” Judd said of her mother, who died on 30 April following a long battle with depression.
“But motherhood happened to her without her consent,” Ashley wrote, adding that Naomi experienced an unintended pregnancy at age 17 that led her down a path of poverty and gender-based violence before “she had to fight like hell to overcome the hand she was dealt, to earn her place in history.Ashley discussed the death of her 76-year-old mother in an interview on ABC’s Good Morning America. Because my mother was stolen from me by the disease of mental illness, by the wounds she carried from a lifetime of injustices that started when she was a girl,” the 54-year-old Golden Globe nominee wrote.Īccording to Ashley, the greatest lesson her mother taught her and her sister is “the power of having a voice and using it.” “Perhaps it’s indecorous to say, but my heart is filled with something else, too.
Her nurture and tenderness, her music and memory.” It is replete with gratitude for what she left behind. “I was supposed to visit her on Sunday, to give her a box of old-fashioned candy, our family tradition,” Ashley wrote. The timing led Ashley to not only pay tribute to her late mother’s life, but to also question whether our nation truly values mothers.
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