Country legend Naomi Judd took her own life on Saturday after a long battle with mental illness at the age of 76, many sources told People.
A Judd spokesman did not immediately respond to Page Six’s request for comment.
Naomi’s daughters, Ashley Judd and Winona Judd, announced their mother’s death in an emotional statement this weekend.
“Today, we sisters have experienced a tragedy. We lost our beautiful mother due to mental illness. We are broken. “We are deeply saddened and we know that as we loved her, she was loved by her audience,” the statement said. “We are in unfamiliar territory.”
Naomi’s 32-year-old husband, Larry Strickland, added in his own statement: “Naomi Judd’s family requested confidentiality during this heartbreaking period. No further information will be published at this time. “
Naomi Judd has spoken many times about her battle with depression in the years before her death. NBCU Photo Bank / NBCUniversal
Naomi’s daughters burst into tears as they introduced their late mother to Sunday’s Country Music Hall of Fame.
Winona, 57, and Ashley, 54, took the stage at the Nashville Awards just a day after their mother’s death, as Judd, the musical duo of Naomi and Winona’s mother and daughter, was honored on the list.
“My mom loved you so much,” Ashley told the audience in tears, “and I’m sorry she couldn’t stand it to this day.”
“Your respect for her and your respect for her have really penetrated her heart,” she continued, “and it is your attachment to her that has sustained her in recent years.
Naomi was found out about her mental health problems. In an interview with Good Morning America in 2016, the singer said she was facing “extreme” and “severe depression” that forced her to retire. She explained that her condition had worsened after she and Winona stopped touring as The Judds in 2011.
Naomi’s famous daughters, Ashley and Winona Judd, also spoke openly about their own mental health problems. Getty Images
“[Fans] look at me with crystals, you know, with shine in my hair, that’s really me. But then I went home and didn’t leave the house for three weeks, I didn’t get off my pajamas and I didn’t practice normal hygiene. It was really bad, “she told Robin Roberts.
Naomi, who describes her mental state in detail, is publishing her 2016 book, The River of Time: My Descent and How I Appeared with Hope, she also admitted that she was seriously considering taking her own life on a bridge near the farm. you are.
Meanwhile, her eldest daughter, Winona, told Six last year that she attempted suicide at 18 and still suffers from depression.
“I have thoughts in which I say to myself, ‘This is too much,’ and then I call someone,” she told us. “I’m literally going to call someone because I’ve been stuck in my grief where I didn’t, and we have to reach out, and that was the hardest thing for me because I’m not good at asking for help, and that’s it.”
Ashley also talks openly about her own struggles. The actress told Glamor magazine that she was admitted to the Shades of Hope Treatment Center in 2006 because of “codependence in my relationship, depression, blame, anger, numbness, denial and minimization of my feelings.
Naomi was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame on Sunday, the day after her death.Getty Images
“But because my addictions were behavioral, not chemical, I wouldn’t know how to seek treatment. In Shades of Hope, my behavior was treated as addictive. And that behavior was killing me spiritually, just like someone sitting on the corner with a bottle in a brown paper bag. “
If you or someone you know is affected by any of the issues raised in this story, call the National Suicide Rescue Line at 800-273-TALK (8255) or send a crisis text line to 741741.
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