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The world of country music lost a good one this weekend.
Grammy Award-winning singer Naomi Judd died Saturday afternoon.
Judd was 76 years old.
Depression
Judd, who formed the duo “The Judds” with her daughter, is a country music legend.
Her “other” daughter is also famous, Ashley Judd, who was atop the list of actresses for many years in the movie industry.
Ashley Judd announced the death of her mother on Twitter…
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.
— ashley judd (@AshleyJudd) April 30, 2022
For all her talent, Naomi Judd has struggled with depression for many years, as she noted in her recent memoir.
In the book, she wrote, “I was never blinded to the compassion from my beloveds who continually reached down with loving hands and lifted me out of my harrowing nightmare of despair.”
It is clear the mind she lived in every day was a very dark place.
Something else that came to light in the book is that Judd was told more than two decades ago that her time was limited.
Doctors told her in 1990 that she had “only three years to live.”
Prior to her singing career taking off, Judd was a nurse, where she had contracted Hepatitis C.
However, by 1995, she beat the illness, and her singing career was in full swing.
The Judds were supposed to have been inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame today.
The duo was also set to tour again for the first time in a decade this fall.
Rest in peace, Naomi.
