Ashley Judd’s candid interview following the death of her mother, Naomi Judd, is full of heart-wrenching details about April 30. 💔
that she went outside to get a “comforting person” who had arrived. “I went upstairs to let her know that the friend was there and I discovered her. I have both grief and trauma from discovering her.”Earlier in the interview, Ashley shared that Naomi, who was 76, died by suicide.
“She used a weapon … my mother used a firearm,” she said. “So 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.”Naomi had been open about her struggle with mental health over the years, with Ashley telling Sawyer that her brain “physically hurt” in her final days.
“I really accepted the love my mother was capable of giving me because I knew she was fragile. So when I walked around the back of their house and came in the kitchen door she said, ‘There’s my darling, there’s my baby.’ and she lit up, I savored those moments,” she said, adding that she was “very present” for every hug. “I knew there would come a time when she would be gone — whether it was sooner or whether it was later. Whether it was by the disease or another cause.
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