Wynonna Judd Breaks Silence On Mom Naomi’s Suicide: ‘I’m Incredibly Angry’

Wynonna Judd has yet opened up astir the tragic death of her mother, Naomi Judd. The state euphony star, who roseate to fame successful the 80s alongside Naomi arsenic portion of the Grammy-winning duo The Judds, told CBS This Morning that she is “incredibly angry” aft her ma passed distant successful April owed to suicide. When asked if she thinks the antagonistic feelings volition spell away, Wynonna replied, “No, I don’t deliberation so, not for a while.”

"She had incredibly large days successful the mediate of the acheronian days."

Country superstar Wynonna Judd, successful her archetypal tv interrogation since her parent Naomi took her ain life, talks astir grief, going backmost connected tour, and much with Lee Cowan this "Sunday Morning" pic.twitter.com/EAMs8epkyH

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Naomi had suffered a agelong conflict with slump and intelligence illness, which she elaborate successful her 2016 memoir River of Time: My Descent into Depression and How I Emerged with Hope. On April 30, Naomi sadly succumbed to the fight, dying by termination from a gunshot coiled to the head. Naomi’s younger girl and Wynonna’s sister, Double Jeopardy actress Ashley, reportedly found her mother.

“I got the call, and I went over, and I saw her and I said goodbye to her successful the hospital, and I closed her eyes, and I kissed her forehead, and that was that,” Wynonna revealed connected the program. “And adjacent happening I know, I’m sitting present connected the broadside porch, and I’m conscionable trying to fig retired what’s next.”

She continued, “I did not cognize that she was astatine the spot she was astatine erstwhile she ended it, due to the fact that she had had episodes earlier and she got better. And that’s what I unrecorded in, is like, ‘Was determination thing I should person looked for oregon should I person known?’ I didn’t.”

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Despite the hardship she is going done astatine the moment, Wynonna admitted she tin consciousness her parent with her astatine times. “I do. I consciousness her nudging me. And sometimes, I laugh. And sometimes, I say, ‘I truly miss you. Why aren’t you present truthful we tin argue?'” she said, referencing their at-times tumultuous relationship.

However, the iconic mother/daughter brace appeared to reconcile earlier Naomi passed. “She told maine 1 time, she took my manus and she said, ‘My beingness is amended due to the fact that of you,'” Wynonna explained. “Those are the memories that are starting to travel through, much and more. I deliberation erstwhile you suffer your mother, a batch of that crap goes away, ’cause it doesn’t substance anymore. It conscionable doesn’t.”