Ashley Judd is pushing for more privacy protection for the family members and close loved ones impacted by suicide.
The 54-year-old actress opened up in a new essay for The New York Times, recalling the details surrounding her mother, Naomi Judd‘s death earlier this year. Ashley, her sister Wynonna Judd, and Naomi‘s husband, Larry Strickland, filed a motion to seal any records surrounding her death after news of Naomi‘s will had been made public. Click inside to read more… In her essay, Ashley recalled “most shattering day” of her life when Naomi died.
She says that she “felt cornered and powerless as law enforcement officers began questioning me while the last of my mother’s life was fading.” “I wanted to be comforting her,” Ashley wrote, “telling her how she was about to see her daddy and younger brother as she ‘went away home,’ as we say in Appalachia.
Instead, without it being indicated I had any choices about when, where and how to participate, I began a series of interviews that felt mandatory and imposed on me that drew me away from the precious end of my mother’s life.
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