Naomi Judd Died of Self-Inflicted Firearm Wound, Daughter Ashley Judd Confirms [Video]

Iesha May 12, 2022 News Leave a comment

Naomi Judd’s daughter Ashley Judd has revealed further information concerning her mother’s death.

On Thursday’s episode of Good Morning America, Ashley revealed to Diane Sawyer that her mother died by suicide on April 30 by “using a weapon.”

“Because we don’t want it to be part of the gossip economy, I will share that she used a weapon; my mother used a firearm,” said Ashley. “So that’s the piece of information 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.”

Ashley added that her mother “was seen and she was heard in her anguish, and she was walked home.”

“When we’re talking about mental illness, it’s essential to be clear and to make the distinction between our loved one and the disease,” she continued. “It’s very real … it lies, it’s savage.”

Before Naomi’s death, the Judds were scheduled to be inducted into Nashville’s Country Music Hall of Fame the next day. Ashley and Wynonna, 57, were present for the ceremony and gave an emotional but composed tribute.

“I’m gonna make this fast because my heart’s broken — and I feel so blessed,” Wynonna told the audience. “I mean, it’s a very strange dynamic to be this broken and this blessed.”

“Our mother couldn’t hang on until she was inducted into the Hall of Fame by her peers,” Ashley told Sawyer. “That is the level of catastrophe of what was going on inside of her because the barrier between the regard in which they held her couldn’t penetrate her heart, and the lie that the disease told her was so convincing.”

On Sunday at 6 pm ET, CMT will be airing Naomi Judd: A River of Time Celebration, a commercial-free public memorial service for the country star.