Ashley Judd celebrated her 55th birthday with a lengthy tribute to her late mother, Naomi Judd.
"My birthday. Everyone who loves me is making it as soft and precious as they can, as my mind can't help but calculate that on my last birthday, Mom was a scant 11 days from her death by crushing suicide," Ashely wrote on Instagram.her mother, who died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, and later had to be the person who broke the news to Naomi's husband, Larry Strickland.
"So it is my first without her," she continued on Wednesday. She paired the caption with a photo of Naomi's handwritten baby announcement following Ashley's birth in 1968."During my birthday at some point she would glow, patting my arm, 'you were brown when you came out, surprised me so, and the sweetest, easiest baby....how I loved you, I had to swat peoples` hands, they wanted to touch you,' and patter on about my baby stories.
As Ashley wrote, Naomi died less than two weeks after her younger daughter's birthday."Last year's, as you might imagine, was more muted, being so close to her end," Ashley wrote."Pop and she came over with a roast chicken and cornbread, and we shared a small meal, the 3 of us. Mom laid down a lot. We had cake and in spite of being weak and preoccupied with the disease that was eating at her, she had a gorgeous card for me and I knew, as ever, how much she loved me.
Ashley finished her reflection with a message of thankfulness, writing,"Thank you, Mom, for all my birthdays so far, and for celebrating me: for holding me at bedtime and whispering in my ear, 'Ashley, you are an extraordinary woman,' and letting me be your Sweetpea. What more does a birthday girl need, than memories of a mother like that? And this is how she saw and loved me, first awake, hair never brushed, ready to share our dreams. For you, Mom. For you.
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