Reflecting on her grief. Ashley Judd shared the harrowing details of discovering her mother, Naomi Judd, in her final moments.
The country star died by suicide in April at the age of 76.“My beloved mother … who had come to believe that her mental illness would only get worse, never better, took her own life that day.
The trauma of discovering and then holding her laboring body haunts my nights,” Ashley, 54, wrote in an emotional essay for The New York Times published on Wednesday, August 31.The Ruby in Paradise actress penned the personal statement to object to a Tennessee law “that generally allows police reports, including family interviews, from closed investigations to be made public.”In the essay, the California native detailed her experience giving interviews to local police which “felt mandatory and imposed on me.”She wrote, “I felt cornered and powerless as law enforcement officers began questioning me while the last of my mother’s life was fading.
I wanted to be comforting her, telling her how she was about to see her daddy and younger brother as she ‘went away home,’ as we say in Appalachia.”Ashley promoted the New York Times piece via Instagram, writing, “Today, I pour my soul into describing the four interviews I was given no choice in doing the day our beloved mother died, and why such material should remain private for all families in the devastation the follows suicide.
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