Naomi Judd’s Autopsy Reveals Details About Country Superstar’s Death – Update

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UPDATED: An autopsy report obtained by the Associated Press today regarding country music superstar Naomi Judd’s death earlier this year confirmed Ashley Judd’s assertion that her mother died after she shot herself with a gun.The report also indicated the presence of prescription drugs in the Judd matriarch’s system.

Those medications are used to address post-traumatic stress and bipolar disorders.“We have always shared openly both the joys of being family as well as its sorrows, too.

One part of our story is that our matriarch was dogged by an unfair foe,” the family said in a statement to AP. “She was treated for PTSD and bipolar disorder, to which millions of Americans can relate.”A few weeks ago Ashley Judd, sister Wynonna and Naomi’s husband Larry Strickland petitioned authorities to seal the police reports related to her death, with Strickland indicating he did not know the interviews were being recorded.PREVIOUSLY on May 12: Country music superstar Naomi Judd died of a self-inflicted firearm wound on April 30, daughter Ashley Judd said on ABC’s Good Morning America today.“Mother used a firearm,” Judd told ABC’s Diane Sawyer in an emotional interview this morning. “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.”Watch an excerpt of the interview below.Actress Judd added, “She obviously was suffering, and, as such, her days up until that moment were hurtful to her.” She said she had been authorized by the Judd family to discuss Naomi’s death in order to spread awareness of the disease of mental illness and available treatments.“There are some things that we would just like to retain as a family,” she