Ashley Judd Pens Devastating Essay On Spending Mother’s Day Alone After The Shocking Suicide Of Naomi Judd

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Ashley Judd opened up about the pain of being without her mom Naomi Judd ahead of her first Mother’s Day alone.

Nearly one week after the country icon’s shocking death by suicide at the age of 76, the 54-year-old actress penned an emotional essay for USA Today about not having her momma by her side this Sunday.

Ashley began by candidly commenting that “it wasn’t supposed to be this way,” saying: Related: Tearful Ashley & Wynonna Judd Honor Late Mom Naomi In Country Music Hall Of Fame Ceremony However, she expressed that her “heart is not empty” at this time.

In fact, the humanitarian shared that “it is replete with gratitude for what she left behind” such as “her nurture and tenderness, her music and memory.” But while she may have so much love in her heart, Ashley noted that it is also filled with “incandescent rage” due to the fact that Naomi “was stolen from me by the disease of mental illness, by the wounds she carried from a lifetime of injustices that started when she was a girl.” In the piece, the Divergent star went on to open up that motherhood happened to Noami “without her consent” when she had an “unintended pregnancy at age 17” that led her “down a road familiar to so many adolescent mothers, including poverty and gender-based violence.” She continued: So that is what she did.