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Ashley Judd reveals how Naomi died
Ashley Judd encouraged people to seek help for their mental health and talked about her grieving process after the loss of her mother, country star Naomi Judd.
In an interview aired on “Good Morning America” on Thursday, the actor said she wanted to address her mother’s struggle with depression. Judd said she was with her mother at her Tennessee home on the day Naomi died, April 30.
Judd also encouraged anyone who was having thoughts of harming themselves to reach out to The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-2738255.
Naomi Judd died at age 76, a day before she was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame with her duo partner and daughter Wynonna Judd. In a statement, the family said they had lost her to “the disease of mental illness.”
“When we’re talking about mental illness, it’s very important and to be clear and to make the distinction between our loved one and the disease,” Judd said in the interview. “It lies. It’s savage. And, you know, my mother, our mother, couldn’t hang on until she was inducted into the Hall of Fame by her peers. I mean, 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 into her heart. And the lie that the disease told her was so convincing.”
Ashley Judd said that her mother shot herself with a gun, but asked for privacy on other details of the death. Naomi Judd wrote openly about her depression and anxiety in her memoir “River of Time,” and daughter Ashley said it was because of this that she cherished every moment she spent with her mother.
Naomi and Wynonna Judd earned a total of five Grammy Awards together in a career that spanned nearly three decades.
A public memorial, “Naomi Judd: A River of Time Celebration,” will air Sunday on CMT.
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On social media Wednesday, the rapper debuted the artwork for his album set for release Friday, “Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers.” In the image, Lamar carries his daughter, 2, while fiancée Whitney Alford cradles an infant that appears to be the couple’s second child.
The hip-hop star never publicly disclosed that he and Alford were expecting another baby, and Alford has not documented a pregnancy on social media. However, the artist does mention his “kids,” plural, in the lyrics of his latest single, “The Heart Part 5.”
On Monday, Lamar dropped the music video for “The Heart Part 5,” which sees the musician transform into O.J. Simpson, Kanye West, Will Smith, Jussie Smollett and Kobe Bryant. The video already has more than 19 million views on YouTube.
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