“I went into this deep, dark and absolutely terrifying hole and I couldn’t get out,” she said. She stopped performing, and her mental state declined significantly, she recounted in a 2017 interview. They were peaking professionally when doctors diagnosed Naomi with hepatitis in 1991. The pair sang about family and hailed the virtues of marriage and fidelity in hits such as Love Can Build a Bridge, Mama He’s Crazy and Why Not Me. Naomi and Wynonna Judd together performed as the country duo known as the Judds, which had 14 No 1 hits and five Grammy wins over nearly three decades. The case was tentatively scheduled to be heard on 12 September.Īt the time of her death, Judd was preparing to embark on a nationwide arena tour with her other daughter, singer Wynonna.
Judd’s family had recently filed a lawsuit in Nashville court seeking to block the public release of any video or audio interviews of grieving relatives that authorities conducted immediately after the musician’s death, arguing that it would cause them “significant trauma and irreparable harm”.
The document also officially listed her cause of death as a gunshot wound near her right temple. The report’s main purpose was to officially classify Judd’s manner of death as a suicide, though that had not been in doubt. “One part of our story is that our matriarch was dogged by an unfair foe.” “We have always shared openly both the joys of being family as well as its sorrows, too,” the statement added. In response to that 13-page document, Judd’s family released a statement saying that she had been trying to manage diagnoses of PTSD and bipolar disorder, “to which millions of Americans can relate”. “A note with suicidal connotations” and a gun were near Naomi Judd, the report said.Įmergency responders were called to Naomi Judd’s home and brought her to a hospital south of Nashville, where she was soon pronounced dead.Ī toxicology test conducted on blood drawn from Judd’s body revealed traces of prescription medications used to treat “major depression”, bipolar disorder and PTSD, according to the report signed by assistant Nashville medical examiner Emily Dennison.
She was found badly wounded by her daughter, the actor Ashley Judd. Judd had previously contemplated dying by suicide and was enduring “recent life stressors” when she shot herself in the head at her home during the late morning of 30 April. The 76-year-old former singer had a “significant” history of anxiety, depression and bipolar disorder, the medical examiner’s report said, citing information provided by her family.
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