Ashley Judd Calls for New Privacy Laws Around Autopsies After Mom Naomi’s Death

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an essay she wrote for The New York Times, where she explained the pain she felt seeing information about her mother’s suicide become public without her consent.

In a series of tweets, she reflected on the interviews she was “given no choice in doing” the day that her mother Naomi died.“We need better law enforcement procedures and laws that would allow suffering families and their deceased loved one more dignity around agonizingly intimate details of their suffering,” she wrote on Twitter, adding that both autopsies and toxicology reports are public record.“We have shared our story so openly, to raise awareness, reduce stigma, to help people identify, and make sure we all know we face mental illness together.

What more do folks want us to give of our grief?” she concluded.Naomi died in April at the age of 76, just days before she and daughter Wynonna were to be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame as The Judds.

In an emotional interview with “Good Morning America” in May, Ashley revealed that she discovered her mother during a routine daily visit to her Tennessee home.“I went upstairs to let her know the friend was there, and I discovered her,” she said. “I have both grief and trauma from discovering her.