NAOMI’S HEARTBREAKING SUICIDE NOTE REVEALED!
What Mama Judd told daughters Wynonna & Ashley
TORMENTED country music legend Naomi Judd scribbled a heartbreaking suicide note to her loved ones before shooting herself in the head — and now The National ENQUIRER can reveal her tragic final testament!
A lifelong friend of the Judd family exclusively tells the ENQUIRER, “In the note, Naomi told her daughters, Wynonna and Ashley, and the rest of her family she loved them ALL very much — but could not bear to live a moment longer with the haunting personal demons that tortured her every single day!
“She made it clear NONE of them were to blame for her choosing to end her life so violently — and that ALL of the blame rested squarely on her own shoulders.”
The pal adds Naomi assured her family “she would see them ALL again in the afterlife and would watch over them here on Earth.”
The Cry Myself to Sleep singer, 76, turned a gun on herself on April 30 at her Tennessee ranch after years of suicide threats and emotional turmoil. But as The ENQUIRER exclusively reported, the mortally wounded Nashville legend lay in the arms of her anguished daughter Ashley, 54, during an agonizing half-hour wait for an ambulance! The shaken Double Jeopardy actress admits it was “utterly devastating and sacred and holy, to be with her as she was passing.”
According to the Williamson County Medical Examiner’s Office, a toxicology report showed Naomi, who suffered from anxiety, bipolar disorder and depression, had taken a slew of prescription drugs — including medication used to treat Parkinson’s disease. Ashley confides, “I realize I grew up with a mom who had an undiagnosed and untreated mental illness.
“My most ardent wish for my mother is that when she transitioned, she was hopefully able to let go of any guilt or shame she carried for any shortcomings she may have had in her parenting of my sister and me because,
certainly on my end, all was forgiven long ago.”
Sources dish Naomi’s note also helped the sisters forgive their mom for ending her life — but the family is now embroiled in fresh turmoil. Larry Strickland, 76 — Naomi’s widower — and Wynonna, 58, slapped the Williamson County Sheriff’s Department with a lawsuit to prevent them from releasing information about their investigation into Naomi’s death. However, Ashley told the world the Love Can Build a Bridge Grammy winner used a gun to kill herself after The ENQUIRER broke the news — and insiders dish her revelation ignited a new feud between her and Wynonna!
But a mole insists Ashley wanted to share her mother’s story to help others in distress!