The Judds Family Album: Naomi Judd With Daughters Wynonna Judd and Ashley Judd Through the Years
usmagazine.comCherishing the memories. After Naomi Judd’s April 2022 death, the country singer’s loving family will hold their special moments with her in their hearts.Wynonna Judd and Ashley Judd revealed their mother’s death in a statement on April 30. “Today we sisters experienced a tragedy,” they said in a joint message, shared via Twitter. “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.”Naomi had a high school romance with Charles Jordan, a football player, and she got pregnant at 17.
The father skipped town, so she married another classmate, Michael Ciminella, in 1964. Naomi gave birth to Wynonna (born Christina Claire Ciminella) in June of that year, forcing her to miss her graduation ceremony.The new family moved from Kentucky to Los Angeles in 1968, the year Ashley was born.
Naomi and Ciminella divorced in 1972, and Naomi moved the family back to her home state. The single mom struggled to raise her daughters while starting her career as a nurse, living without TV or a phone line.
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