Mental Health Awareness Month: Honoring Naomi Judd

 

Wynnona and Ashley Judd shared this heartbreaking statement of their mother's passing, "Today we sisters experienced a tragedy. We lost our beautiful mother to the disease of mental illness. We are shattered. We are navigating profound grief and know that as we loved her, she was loved by her public. We are in unknown territory."

In 2016, Naomi Judd released a memoir that shared her battle with mental illness. And just a day before the Judds were inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame, and before the first day of Mental Health Awareness Month, Ms. Judd took her own life. 

Naomi describes in her book the "boulder-like weight of my severe treatment-resistant depression and terrifying panic attacks." 

During the induction ceremony, Ashleys Judd said, "I’m sorry that she couldn’t hang on until today," as she and Wynonna recited Psalm 23 in tears with the latter saying, "Though my heart is broken I will continue to sing."

In Naomi & Wynonna: Love Can Build a Bridge, Ashley Judd, narrates the true story of the illustrious Judd family. Starting with Naomi's struggles as a single mother in 1960s in Kentucky, we follow the trio of Judds as they fight to achieve their dreams. Along the path to musical stardom for Naomi and Wynona, they're faced with struggles and familial tensions all the while tracking their battles with isolation, loneliness, and depression.

In the wake of Naomi Judd's passing, we wanted to revisit this beautiful and tragic story. Love and loss is portrayed in pitch perfect fashion as a two part series starring Kathleen York, Viveka Davis, Bruce Greenwood, Melinda Dillon, Elisabeth Moss, Dolly Parton, and Mae Whitman.

Stream Naomi & Wynonna: Love Can Build a Bridge now on TheArchive.

R.I.P. Naomi. You were taken too soon.

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